PALM BEACH GARDENS, Florida – A Florida family captured the terrifying moments when a massive tornado struck their Palm Beach County neighborhood Wednesday as part of a tornado outbreak caused by Hurricane Milton.

Footage shows the tornado gutting palm trees and kicking up debris in the backyard of their Palm Beach Gardens home.

“Oh my God!” a woman can be heard saying off camera.

Tornado destroys garden in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

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As winds increase and change direction drastically as the tornado passes, the patio door fractures.

The National Weather Service in Miami gave the tornado a preliminary rating of EF-3 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, with maximum wind speeds estimated at 140 mph. But the agency said its investigation into the storms was still incomplete and the rating could be adjusted as it learned more about the damage.

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The rating is significant, especially since less than 1 percent of tornadoes produced by hurricanes receive such a high rating, according to FOX weather meteorologist Stephen Morgan.

“These tornadoes were more energetic because Milton was starting to become a non-tropical system,” Morgan said.

He noted that before Milton made landfall, the jet stream was injecting energy into the hurricane. Dry air was also present, rising and twisting. Overall, the features were those often seen during a spring tornado outbreak.

“All of those combined – to have that with a hurricane making landfall is just not something you see,” he added.

The destruction caused by the tornado was captured by FOX weather meteorologist Kendall Smith, who reported from Palm Beach Gardens Friday morning.

She noted the tornado’s power as it ripped out a motorized gate at the entrance to a neighborhood, threw furniture from the living room of a home into the yard and showed uprooted and toppled palm trees on trails.

“The scenes of devastation are much more reminiscent of what we would see on the Plains,” she said.

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On Thursday, the National Weather Service confirmed that Milton had spawned at least five tornadoes, and that number is expected to rise as 126 tornado warnings were issued Wednesday — the most warnings issued statewide in one day.

Combined with the tornadoes it produced, Milton caused at least 17 deaths across Florida.