Tornado tears path of destruction through Florida neighborhood shredding roofs and overturning cars

The wrath of Hurricane Milton has been felt successful a Florida vicinity aft a convulsive tornado lashed homes and cars. 

Video footage showed a way of demolition ripped through the Avenir vicinity successful Palm Beach Gardens earlier Milton made landfall. 

In the clip, posted connected X by Gelo Perez, roofs connected aggregate homes were seen damaged and missing panels that had been ripped disconnected from the high-intensity winds. 

Debris sat scattered crossed the lawns and sidewalks arsenic residents rallied unneurotic amongst the damage, including a flipped motortruck which laic idle successful the background. 

Perez described the country arsenic 'disastrous.'

In a National Hurricane Center's X update, the tempest is sustaining 61mph winds.

'Milton Close to Making Landfall Along the Coast of West-Central Florida. Life-Threatening Storm Surge, Damaging Winds, and Flooding Rains Occurring Across Portions of Central and Southwestern Florida,' the NHC wrote successful their astir caller X post. 

The storm is bringing rainfall and precocious winds astatine the Tampa Bay connected its dependable and perchance catastrophic march toward the westbound seashore of Florida, wherever officials sounded urgent warnings for residents to evacuate oregon look grim likelihood of survival.

Tornadoes touched down successful the Everglades and Fort Myers. Forecasters pass much could look crossed cardinal and confederate Florida.

Forecasters expect Milton to marque landfall astatine astir 11pm EST arsenic a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 130mph.

The top information is posed by the partition of water, known arsenic a tempest surge, that Milton volition whip up. Initially feared to beryllium 15 feet tall, forecasters present judge the tempest surge volition beryllium a inactive record-breaking 12 feet successful height.

'Where you are present is wherever you are going to beryllium during the duration of Milton,' said Manatee county’s main of exigency management, Matt Myers. 'The conditions are rapidly getting worse.'

The nerve-wracking Avenir footage comes aft a video emerged of an idiotic mates taking selfies in the hurricane. 

Thousands of radical person tuned into the watercourse to ticker Milton - described arsenic the 'storm of the century' by forecasters - arsenic it rolls in. 

Despite astir six cardinal Floridians being placed nether evacuation orders, immoderate besides decided to sojourn Universal Studios edifice successful Orlando, to marque the astir of the hours earlier Milton makes landfall.

Footage of residents enjoying themselves portion ignoring evacuation warnings drew contempt crossed societal media, with 1 idiosyncratic sharing a selfie astatine the Key West landmark and questioning: 'What are you doing man?'

In different video that near societal media users furious, an influencer said she was 'going to die' because she was excessively stubborn to evacuate her location during the storm. 

Calloway, 32, became 1 of the archetypal Instagram influencers erstwhile she documented her clip astatine England's prestigious Cambridge University but was recovered to person faked her qualifications.

Posting to her Instagram Story Tuesday nighttime from her caller Florida home, Calloway elaborate the afloat grade of her predicament.

'So if you've been pursuing Hurricane Milton, um, I'm going to die! It's expected to marque landfall successful the Sarasota-Bradenton area. I'm successful Sarasota, I unrecorded connected the water, it's portion A, mandatory evacuation,' she said.

Another video showed a plane flying done Hurricane Milton aggressively shaking and jolting portion enduring utmost turbulence.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, besides known arsenic 'hurricane hunters' flew done the hurricane, ranked class 5 astatine the time,  towards Florida's westbound seashore connected Tuesday.

A radical of brave researchers were onboard conducting captious research, including predicting the hurricane's way and aboriginal strength.

The video showed the unit members holding tightly to the level arsenic the thrust turned rocky.

In an update from the National Hurricane Center connected Tuesday, Hurricane Milton is expected to marque landfall connected the Gulf Coast of Florida Wednesday.