TAVARES, FL (WESH/CNN) - A tornado touched down Wednesday afternoon, destroying a warehouse, knocking a hole in a restaurant and even sending boaters fleeing when it passed over a lake.
Out-running a fearsome cloud formation over Lake Eustis - that's what one family will remember from this Fourth of July.
They spotted it behind the wake of their boat crossing the lake from the Fish Camp Lake Eustis, a restaurant off Highway 441.
"We realized it was a tornado directly above us," said restaurant owner Jim Jordan.
He said he has no doubt the same whirl of wind is to blame for the damage he's dealing with now.
"(It) started leaking a bunch of other places," Jordan said.
The storm did more damage nearby, touching down behind a grocery store toppling a warehouse and some fence and worrying almost everyone living at the mobile home park, Lake Frances Estates.
Everyone is just grateful no one was hurt.
Once the shock was over and the sky settled, many people spent the rest of their holiday afternoon trying to help.
"Regular friends of ours who come to restaurant, neighbors and just people from the community coming to help out, it's really just a great community up here," Jordan said.
Though the tornado did a lot of damage the National Weather service said it was a small twister, EF 0 on the Enhanced Fujita scale.
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