Cape Coral Tornado, September 16, 2007, 6:39 p.m. ET

I took this video on my cell phone after I and a friend observed the newly-formed tornado approaching the campus of our church and school from just south of Mohawk Parkway and just east of Skyline Boulevard in Cape Coral. At about 6:30 p.m. it was simply a mass of swirling debris with no obvious funnel cloud. The funnel seems to have formed several minutes later when I began taking the video. The storm seems to have destroyed more than one neighborhood electrical transformer. Power had been blinking on and off both before and after the twister, but it finally went down completely at 7:10 p.m. and stayed off for about a couple of hours.

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[metaridleyfan2]

this is the tornado i spotted looking out my window :D

it was epic!

[Shineboie]

Check out mt cape coral tornado

[xXDrodXx1]

i saw it i live by delprado and pin iland

[sweaterfreak13]

My daughter was battered with glass and had our huge pull out couch dropped on top of her. She was only 2! It was the only thing that kept her safe (relatively) the damage was more than some people think. Our power was out for days, we xouldnt live there for over a week, we had boarded up windows for nearly 2 months and our roof was ripped off.

[DAthirdgenKID]

i was 10 feet away from it took my linae

[zero9788]

School next day was none stop talk about that

[Xxero0]

cape coral is kinda big, i remember this tornado i think it was in SW cc. i live in SE cc, and i still didn't see it

[dogscreamer]

hey it's Cayla!!! thanks for keeping us all calm that day!!!

[AprilFirst2006]

when was this?!

man, i wish i could have seen it.

i've lived in cape coral all my life and never seen a tornado. haha.

[stargazegirl]

im screaming mom dad torndo ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hh and they were both sleeping so i ran in there room screaming mom dad help tornado