Powerful tornado flips cars in south Florida

A brace of tornadoes that deed the US eastbound seashore implicit the play damaged dozens of homes and flipped cars.

Heavy rains and almighty winds touched down successful southbound Florida connected Saturday, wherever a video captured a car being flipped successful the aggravated storm.

Meanwhile, Virginia Beach began cleanup efforts connected Monday aft the metropolis was deed by a abstracted tornado implicit the weekend.

No injuries oregon fatalities were reported successful either state.

The National Weather Service bureau successful Miami said Saturday's tornado successful Palm Beach Gardens reached upwind speeds of up to 130 mph (209 km/h), and registered arsenic an EF-2 - meaning beardown - connected the Enhanced Fujita scale, a zero to 5 standard that classes twisters by estimated upwind speeds and related damage.

The City of Palm Beach Gardens said successful a connection that the tornado caused "roof, structural and conveyance harm passim the city".

Videos and images from the country showed the grade of the tornado's damage, including overturned cars, breached windows and snapped histrion branches.

A motorist captured melodramatic video of a car being flipped by the tornado connected the US 1 highway.

The tornado besides caused 1 flat analyzable successful North Palm Beach to endure extended harm to its roof, and boats docked adjacent were upended from their moorings.

Authorities were forced to adjacent large roadways to cleanable up debris and inspect wreckage from the storm.

In Virginia Beach, successful the authorities of Virginia, an estimated 50 to 100 homes were damaged owed to a abstracted terrible tempest strategy connected Saturday, authorities said. Several 100 radical were near without power.

The tempest forced the cancellation of a euphony festival hosted by instrumentalist Pharrell Williams connected Saturday evening erstwhile officials deemed it unsafe for attendees.

The coastal metropolis declared a authorities of exigency connected Sunday, with impermanent shelters opened for radical whose homes were damaged by the storm.

Schools are closed connected Monday owed to roadworthy closures and tempest damage.