MIAMI – On Thursday afternoon, an EF-0 tornado touched down in the southwestern part of Miami-Dade County, inflicting damage to homes and trees as well as flipping over a massive 18-wheeler truck.
Only Dade received the video that was given to them.
People who work in the neighborhood said that they observed the tornado touch down and blast debris into the air as it went to the south and southwest, namely in the vicinity of SW 147th Ave and 200th Street.
The National Weather Service has dispatched a team of investigators to the location. They affirmed to CBS News Miami that the event in question was a tornado.
A tractor-trailer was blown over while it was traveling. The driver stated that the tornado was the reason of his vehicle flipping over. He was rushed to the hospital, but his condition is not thought to be life-threatening at this time.
Only a few feet away, the tornado uprooted trees and tore off a portion of the roof of a house that had been erected in the early 1900s.
“The entire roof collapsed, and a portion of the roof on the house that Andrew passed through was also removed.” According to Christa Ingram, “The avocado trees from approximately four rows have been cut down; the trees are between thirty and forty years old.”
An adjacent avocado plantation was also damaged by the tornado, which broke some of the trees, blew over a fence, and knocked the avocados from their trees.