The dramatic moment a tornado ripped along the Florida coast has been caught on camera.
The footage shows the twister making landfall on a beach in Fort Lauderdale as the swirling winds send sand and umbrellas flying into the sky as sunbathers watch on.
Thankfully the tornado weakened and died out before it could do any significant damage.
Matt Devitt, Chief Meteorologist at WINK News, tweeted out the footage, saying: "Waterspout pushed onshore today in Fort Lauderdale by the Plunge Beach Resort...hurling sand and umbrellas into the air before weakening."
Another short clip shared on Twitter showed the twister speeding across the ocean's surface in Fort Lauderdale.
The waterspout presumably formed just before barrelling toward the beach and becoming a terrifying beach tornado.
"WATERSPOUT spotted in Fort Lauderdale this afternoon! This briefly became a tornado as it pushed onto the beach," Juliana Mejia, another WINK News meteorologist, wrote alongside the footage.
Most responded to the footage with astonishment at the beachgoers who appeared to remain completely calm despite the carnage going on around them.
"Anyone else mesmerized by the people on the beach, not moving, just watching?" one asked, while another added: "people just standing around a bunch of umbrellas that become deadly spears in 150km windspeed."
Another Twitter user remarked said "Thank god nobody got hurt by an umbrella".
Umbrella-related deaths are not unheard of.
In August of this year, a woman was killed by a flying umbrella at a South Carolina beach.
The umbrella struck and impaled Tammy Perreault, 63, as she sat on the beach in Garden City, according to The Washington Post.
Ms Perreault was transported to hospital, where she later died.
In 2016 a 55-year-old woman, Michelle Belk, was killed in Virginia when a flying umbrella struck her in the torso, causing fatal injuries.
