a bag of chips. all of a sudden we heard someone holler tornado and i looked to the front window and all the insulation picked up and blew off. reporter: the tornado sent to tampa affiliate wfts mixed with stormy winds, sweeping across central and southern florida. we have this building down here that got tore down. it was crazy. reporter: in tampa the storm blew over this tractor-trailer, crushing two cars. amazingly, no one was hurt. in southern florida fallen tree limbs blocked roads and crunched cars like soda cans. i mean, they just kept falling. reporter: heavy rains left drivers rolling through knee-high water. the rain was blowing sideways. streets were flooded. it was just uh i would say pretty intense. reporter: the wind swept south to dade county, leaving a wake of felled tree limbs and damaged cars. thank heavens nobody was in the car and nobody got hurt. that s the main thing. reporter: at the lakeland airport, high winds flipped vintage biplanes in