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In the early morning hours of January 16, 2022, the NWS began monitoring a storm system offshore. A line of thunderstorms arrived at the coast just before 6am. These thunderstorms caused numerous tornadoes across the peninsula and southwest Florida. There were 6 tornadoes that day in Lee, Collier and Charlotte counties. At 7:32am, at supercell developed into a waterspout just north of Fort Myers Beach and became an EF2 tornado once it reached ashore. The tornado was about 125 yards wide. The tornado lasted and estimated 17 minutes and ranked across Fort Myers for 8 miles including Point Breeze, Tropicana and Century 21 mobile home parks.
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