{"id":223658,"date":"2026-04-08T17:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/223658\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T17:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:42:11","slug":"tornado-touched-down-in-northwest-miami-dade-tuesday-afternoon-nws-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/223658\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado touched down in northwest Miami-Dade Tuesday afternoon, NWS says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/national-weather-service\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">National Weather Service<\/a> (NWS) confirmed that a brief <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/tornado\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tornado<\/a> touched down in northwest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/miami-dade\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miami-Dade<\/a> on Tuesday afternoon as thunderstorms moved across parts of South Florida.<\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/video\/strong-storm-creates-lots-of-damage-in-a-miami-dade-neighborhood\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          Strong storm creates lots of damage in a Miami-Dade neighborhood<\/p>\n<p>          01:50<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The NWS sent a storm survey team to the Palm Springs North community near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/miami-lakes\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miami Lakes<\/a> on Wednesday morning to tour the damage left behind and later determined that a tornado did indeed touch down.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NWS, the EF-0 tornado had winds estimated to be about 85 mph when it touched down around 4:45 p.m. Tuesday afternoon northwest of Miami Lakes.<\/p>\n<p>The tornado was on the ground for less than a minute and for just over about a half-mile, the NWS said.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/palm-springs-north-storm-damage-april-7-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tornado uprooted trees and caused damage to some homes<\/a> and cars, but luckily no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Weather Service (NWS) confirmed that a brief tornado touched down in northwest Miami-Dade on Tuesday afternoon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,1064,2072,807,7214],"class_list":["post-223658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade","tag-national-weather-service","tag-south-florida","tag-tornado"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}