National Weather Service confirms sixth tornado hit on Jan. 16; Cape Coral site listed

A sixth tornado touched down briefly on Jan. 16 in a section of Cape Coral causing minimal damage and no injuries, the National Weather Service confirmed Sunday.

The grouping of tornadoes in Southwest Florida on that day caused localized damage in Lee, Collier and Charlotte counties as a storm front roared through the area early in the day.

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A forecaster at NWS Tampa confirmed that evidence of a sixth tornado was gathered and confirmed.

"This was after the fact, we ended up reviewing some doorbell video footage and some other footage from ... media stations," Russ Giarratana, a forecaster at the NWS offices in Tampa. "We were able to confirm that an EF-0 tornado touched down."

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Giarratana said this tornado was a brief touchdown around 9:04 a.m., about 50-yards wide, and caused only what he defined as "sporadic" damage and no injuries with 60 to 70 mile per hour winds.

He said the tornado touchdown was three miles north-northwest in Cape Coral between Trafalgar Parkway and Pine Island Road.

"Sometimes that can happen," Giarratana said about the late confirmation. "We find additional reports after, you know, five days to a week after the event, just based on video and the damage that occurred."

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This article originally appeared on Fort Myers News-Press: An EF-0 tornado was confirmed Sunday to have hit Cape Coral on Jan. 16