The damage in Palm Coast from storms that battered much of Central Florida early Thursday was caused by an EF2 tornado packing estimated peak winds of 115 mph, the National Weather Service in Jacksonville said.

The tornado that hit at about 4:50 a.m. was a maximum of about 200 feet wide and traveled a 1-mile path, according to the NWS damage survey released Thursday afternoon. Estimated time on the ground was about 6 minutes.

In Palm Coast, officials said the storm produced extensive damage, downed power lines, fallen trees, an overturned vehicle and damage to several homes. There were no reported injuries. 

Much of the damage could be found to properties on Bayside Drive, where almost every home was affected in some way.

In the Indian Trails B-section community, every side of Rich Bewsher's home received some kind of damage. A tree came down and hit one side. 

“I need an air conditioner,” Bewsher said. “I need some roof repair.”

“I went outside and was looking around. It was so dark. You couldn’t see anything, but everyone else had lights on in the house. I see that the air conditioner was ripped out. Well, when it pulled those lines out, they are 220. The wires must have touched ground, and it blew the breaker for the air conditioner and it also tripped the main.”

A flip of the breaker got power back on.

A flipped over trampoline that isn’t his is still flipped in Bewsher's backyard.

The early-morning tornado introduced him to the neighbor who lives behind him.

“I just met him,” Bewsher said as he stood in front of a fence that was broken apart.  “I just met him today.”

They won’t have a cookout anytime soon. Bewsher's grill is sitting in the bottom of his pool.

The storm also overturned an SUV in one Palm Coast neighborhood. The owners of the vehicle said they hid in the closet before they realized their vehicle was no longer in the driveway. 

"I was shocked," Linda Lekarzzyk, a Palm Coast resident, said. "I was like, 'Where's your truck?' It was parked in the driveway. It was gone, and all I saw was the flashing lights."

Lekarzzyk said she just had a feeling early Thursday morning to turn on the TV before the storms came through their area. 

"Something inside me said, 'Well, turn on the TV' and turn on the TV to Spectrum News and I saw what was coming. And I said, 'Yeah, I think we better head to the closet'," she said. "And I headed for the closet, and I told my husband, 'Get over here into the closet.'"

"We're just thankful to be alive. And we thank God. This is just stuff. It can be replaced. It's not going to be easy, but we have our lives," she said. 

One homeowner on Bayside Drive said the storm came through very quickly and she woke up to shattered glass from three windows spread all across her home.

“It was all the glass over there to the other side,” Jeny Agrazal said.

“I was like, 'Oh my God. Thank God that I sleep all covered because if not I will be all cut'.”

Agrazal  said the damage caused to her home is the worst she has dealt with since moving to Palm Coast in 2016.

“Right now, I just called my insurance company to let them know what’s going on, and they say they are receiving a lot of calls from here," she said.

Flagler County Sheriff's Office posted on social media that deputies and emergency response partners went to the B-section area of Palm Coast after reports of a possible tornado. 

Residents of Palm Coast who need assistance were able to go to Parkview Church at 5455 Belle Terre Parkway in Palm Coast, authorities said. Flagler County staffers were available until at least noon.

Over in Marion County, a Spectrum News 13 crew saw a large tree on a road, blocking a school bus.

A public works crew in Ocala were later seen removing the tree. 

Volusia County school officials stated that due to a power outage, they were forced to cancel classes at Spruce Creek High School.

Many parts of Central Florida were under Tornado Warnings and Watches in the morning, and Tornado Watches expired throughout the area at 3 p.m.

Spectrum News 13's Asher Wildman, Massiel Leyva, Celeste Springer and Jaclyn Harold contributed to this report.

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