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Pembroke Pines, FL - A tornado touched down in a residential area of Pembroke Pines on Tuesday as Hurricane Ian churned off the coast of South Florida.
Witnesses say the neighborhood was barely damaged after the tornado passed by around 7:30 p.m. near Pasadena Elementary school.
A man who lives in the neighborhood said he received a tornado alert on his phone and when he looked outside, he "heard the familiar freight train sound, locked up the doors and all of us went into the interior bathroom inside the house,” he told WSVN. “You can actually hear it through one of the doors that goes out to the patio. It was extremely loud, so we didn’t know what was going to happen.”
The man tells WSVN the tornado lasted less than a minute, telling the news outlet “I think it was about 45 seconds, and then it was just quiet.”
The man says after the tornado passed, someone in a car was trapped under a tree; but neighbors helped the person get out and began cutting up the tree.
There was no extensive damage to any of the homes in the area.