One week after Hurricane Milton landed in Florida, the National Weather Service confirmed four tornadoes struck Central Florida on Oct. 9. One of the tornadoes, with 85 to 95 miles per hour winds, was reported in Cocoa Beach.

An August 2024 video showing twin waterspouts off the shore of Palm Beach, Florida, has been shared with false descriptions saying that it showed tornadoes in Miami after Hurricane Milton made landfall in October.

At least four people have died from Hurricane Milton after the storm dropped multiple tornadoes in southern Florida on Wednesday, Oct 9.

The destructive twisters surprised anxious Florida residents, even as Hurricane Milton’s eye still loomed. Hours before Hurricane Milton made landfall in Florida, a spate of unusually strong and long-lived tornadoes touched down across the state, flipping tractor-trailers and ripping off roofs.

In St. Lucie County on the state’s Atlantic coast, far from where the hurricane made landfall, one sheriff confirmed some loss of life without providing further details after a tornado struck.

As Southwest Florida rode out the storm, one thing that seemed unusual with Hurricane Milton was the number of tornadoes. The storm made landfall near Siesta Key but Southwest Florida still felt the impact in the form of storm surge, winds, and tornadoes.

The National Weather Service confirmed three additional tornadoes touched down in Florida during Hurricane Milton.

Carter and Danielle McMasters sheltered in a bathroom closet with their two kids as a tornado ripped through their Wellington neighborhood.

One of the worst tornado outbreaks occurred during Hurricane Ivan in 2004, which caused a multi-day outbreak of 127 tornadoes. The deadliest hurricane-spawned tornado was in October 1964, when 22 people died in Larose, Louisiana, during a twister from Hurricane Hilda.