A massive tornado touched down in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Saturday.

The National Weather Service sent a tornado alert around 5:45 p.m. and multiple local residents captured footage of the storm.

Footage of the twister has circulated on social media.

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FOX Weather reports:

According to a storm report from the National Weather Service office in Miami, officials received multiple phone calls and social media reports of a twister near Federal Highway about 5:50 p.m. ET. The NWS issued a Tornado Warning for the storm about 5 minutes before the cyclone was reported.

Fort Lauderdale officials said in a Facebook post that no injuries have been reported, and the damage from the storm appears to be minor.

An NWS team is expected to conduct a damage survey on Sunday to determine the strength of the tornado.

No injuries have currently been reported.

It’s unclear how many people have lost power at this time.

Per Sun Sentinel:

A tornado touched down in Fort Lauderdale just west of where Las Olas Boulevard crosses the Intracoastal Waterway Saturday evening, officials say, damaging boats, homes and power lines before moving into the ocean. No injuries have been reported.

Videos shared by residents on social media show the large tornado moving close to the downtown area, sparks and flames in its wake.

The tornado formed over land just before 6 p.m. according to Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Garrett Pingol. As it gained strength, it “made contact with some structures, power lines and marine vessels in that immediate area” before moving east until it hit the ocean.

Fire Rescue responded to calls about a damaged boat on Las Olas Circle and a home with roof damage on Southeast 10th Street, Pingol said. First responders checked boats within the Las Olas basin and determined that no one had been injured.

They then performed “an extensive area assessment” from Bahia Mar up to Sunrise Boulevard to find that, as of 7:30 p.m., no one was injured or displaced, and there was no significant property damage, though some boats had minor damage.

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