The tornado was captured by an elevated camera operated by the local television station WPLG.

[2] The tornado formed at 1:53 p.m. EDT, initially touching down in the Silver Bluff Estates area.

[3] It then swept through Downtown Miami bypassing the city's skyscrapers.

The tornado lifted from the water halfway through Biscayne Bay and touched down briefly again in Miami Beach, flipping over a car and then dissipating.

The Storm Prediction Center in Oklahoma had noted the possibility for tornadoes in the area and warned that there might be more to come.