{"id":274587,"date":"2026-05-18T00:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T00:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274587\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T00:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T00:09:07","slug":"funnel-cloud-spotted-near-downtown-fort-myers-tree-damage-seen-lee-county-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274587\/","title":{"rendered":"Funnel cloud spotted near Downtown Fort Myers, tree damage seen | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"138\">FORT MYERS, FL. (WINK) \u2014 A funnel cloud was spotted near downtown\u00a0Fort Myers\u00a0Sunday afternoon as storms moved through Southwest Florida.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"140\" data-end=\"227\">WINK News viewer Kia F. captured video of the funnel cloud as it developed in the area.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"140\" data-end=\"227\">According to the National Weather Service, a possible landspout\/tornado was reported in Cape Coral via social media video, which showed debris circling through the air.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"403\" data-end=\"471\">The Layne family in Cape Coral shared a video of items being thrown around in their backyard due to the storm&#8217;s strong winds.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>(Credit: The Layne Family)<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"140\" data-end=\"227\">Benjamin Abes with\u00a0Lee County Emergency Management said the tree damage was spotted along Summerlin Road between College Parkway and Boy Scout Drive.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"403\" data-end=\"471\">Abes said there has been no structural damage reported at this time.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"473\" data-end=\"627\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The\u00a0WINK Weather Authority\u00a0continues tracking rain and storms moving across Southwest Florida as unsettled weather remains in the forecast.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"473\" data-end=\"627\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Stay tuned to <a href=\"http:\/\/WINKNews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WINKNews.com<\/a>, WINK News App, streaming, and on-air for any new developments on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, FL. (WINK) \u2014 A funnel cloud was spotted near downtown\u00a0Fort Myers\u00a0Sunday afternoon as storms moved through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,28,897,98771,1521,56903],"class_list":["post-274587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-florida","tag-fort-myers","tag-funnel-cloud","tag-southwest-florida","tag-wink-weather-authority"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274587","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=274587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}