FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A tornado hit Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Saturday as a line of storms moved across the Sunshine State.
According to a storm report from the National Weather Service office in Miami, officials received multiple phone calls and social media reports of a twister near Federal Highway about 5:50 p.m. ET. The NWS issued a Tornado Warning for the storm about 5 minutes before the cyclone was reported.
No injuries have been reported. It was not immediately clear how much damage may have occurred.
There have been several reports of other severe weather across Florida on Saturday, including funnel clouds, a water spout and damaging wind gusts. The highest thunderstorm wind gust that has been reported was 52 mph near Pine Island.
The storms are associated with a trailing cold front that is attached to a powerful nor’easter moving up the East Coast this weekend. The storm has created a mess of ice, snow and rain as it chugs through the mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
More severe weather is possible in Florida in the coming days as another powerful storm moves across the eastern half of the country.