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12:15Z EF1 KTBW FL Charlotte Charlotte Beach Port Charlotte tornado. Tornado briefly touched down in the Village of Holiday Lake near Port Charlotte with peak winds estimated around 100 mph. This tornado was produced by the parent thunderstorm that earlier produced the Placida/Gasparilla tornado. Four homes were deemed unsafe/destroyed; two with major damage, and two with minor damage. Roof and carports had major damage or were destroyed. No injuries or deaths reported. Damage estimates totaled around $150 thousand USD.
12:32Z EF2 KTBW FL Lee Punta Rassa Iona/Fort Myers tornado. A waterspout first identified just northwest of Fort Myers Beach moved ashore as a tornado and pushed through the Iona area near Fort Myers producing EF-2 damage with peak winds estimated around 118 mph before dissipating near the Cape Coral bridge. Over 200 residences suffered damage across three separate mobile home communities (Point Breeze, Tropicana, and Century 21), with 45 destroyed, 90 sustaining major damage and another 92 with minor damage. 3 people suffered minor injuries. Damage estimates totaled around $10 million USD.
14:04Z EF0 KTBW FL Lee Cape Coral Cape Coral tornado. Brief tornado near Cape Coral was captured on a home doorbell camera. No significant damage was reported and the tornado was rated as an EF-0 with peak winds estimated around 65 mph. No injuries or deaths reported.
14:07Z EF0 KAMX FL Collier Marco Video from the public at Isle of Capri shared via social media captured the tornado as a waterspout before it came ashore. Surveyed tornado damage was found in the Victoria Falls neighborhood west of Collier Blvd and south of Tamiami Trail. A total of 20 homes sustained at least minor damage. Several uprooted trees, broken large branches, and at least two homes with tarps on roofs indicative of roof damage were observed in this neighborhood. ||Tornado damage was also observed north of Tamiami Trail in Lely Resort. Here, the surveyed damage was mainly in the form of a few uprooted small trees, one uprooted palm tree, and broken large tree branches. The tops of a few palm trees were partially sheared off at the crown with only a few fronds remaining as well. A street sign was knocked over on Palmer Ct in Lely Resort. ||As the cell moved to the northeast, the tornado eventually crossed Interstate 75 near mile marker 96 where it blew over a semi-tractor trailer, injuring the driver, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Estimated peak wind of 85 mph - high-end EF-0.
15:53Z EF0 KAMX FL Collier Everglades City Members of the public shared video of the tornadoes it passed near Everglades City after coming ashore. The survey observed a leaning power pole along Tamiami Trail just east of the intersection with State Road 29. The damage was tornadic in nature and matches with radar velocity/reflectivity at the time as a strong circulation passed over. Estimated peak wind of 85 mph.

Storm reports are derived from "The Storm Events Database" (National Centers for Environmental Information) and/or "Past Storm Reports" (Storm Prediction Center).