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This happened yesterday in Ft Lauderdale. This was so scary to watch as a parent. 
They interviewed the little girl last night and she was clearly traumatized...she said she was never going in a bounce house.
Three children hurt when tornado forms over ocean and sends inflatable bounce house flying after coming ashore on beach EF-0 tornado made landfall at Fort Lauderdale Beach in Florida on Monday Tornado, which started out as a waterspout, uprooted the house Children were ejected from the house after it soared 20 feet up in the air House lifted across parking lot into road and over four lanes of traffic Victims, six and 11, reported in stable condition but third could be critical Witness saw kids 'flying out of the bounce house' and 'hitting the ground'
Authorities say at least three children were injured after an EF-0 tornado made landfall at Fort Lauderdale Beach and sent a city-sponsored inflatable bounce house flying into the air.
The waterspout-turned-tornado came ashore Monday afternoon near the Bahia Mar hotel and sent the bounce house flying above palm trees, across a parking lot and over four lanes of traffic.
Video from the scene shows the waterspout - a whirling column of air and water mist - moving from the ocean before lifting the house above the tree line and finally depositing it in a heap.
Fort Lauderdale police Sgt DeAnna Greenlaw said the three children were taken to the hospital.
The kids were alert and conscious while being taken to Broward General Hospital.
An adult who was hurt refused to be transported to the hospital for treatment.
They were inside the bounce house when it went airborne and were ejected at an altitude of about 20 feet, WSVM reported.
FLP spokesman Keven Dupree said the kids appeared to have fallen out when the house first flipped over the beach.
Dupree said: 'They were immediately dropped out of the bounce house onto the sand.'
The mother of two of the children, a six-year-old girl and 11-year-old boy, said they were in stable condition.
The other child could be seriously injured, Local 10 reported.
Fort Lauderdale police were gathering details to update the condition of the injured children on Sunday afternoon but said the names of the 'injured juveniles will not be released'.
Burt Osteen, a 37-year-old flooring installer from Fort Lauderdale, and his family dove to the sand on their stomachs as they saw the waterspout spinning toward them.
'It came right over us. We laid on the ground; we were right in front of the bounce house. We watched it pick up the bounce house and snap a basketball hoop,' Osteen said.
He barely felt anything, though, when the waterspout passed over them.
The tablecloths on nearby picnic tables weren't even disturbed by the wind, he said.
'The only thing was the sand, getting stung by the sand,' he said.
Sgt Greenlaw said: 'This is an act of mother nature, something that could not be prevented, and we were unable to react quick enough to this waterspout.'
The officer added that the bounce house had been properly secured before it was lifted up.
The tornado may have grown to as large as 30ft wide and had an estimated maximum distance of a football field, according to the Palm Beach Post.
EF-0 tornadoes have gusts that range from 65-85mph, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
'Tornadic waterspouts are tornadoes that form over water, or move from land to water', according to the National Ocean Service.
'They have the same characteristics as a land tornado.
'They are associated with severe thunderstorms, and are often accompanied by high winds and seas, large hail, and frequent dangerous lightning.'
Bounce houses can weigh between 200-600 pounds, NBC Miami reported.
The owner of Connecticut Bounce House, Zach Aszklar, recommended not setting his products up on soft ground or on windy days after a similar incident last May near Albany, New York.
During that bounce house disaster, a three children were hurt when their ten-by-ten-foot roofless nylon bounce house broke loose from its plastic anchoring stakes because of strong winds.
The house was swept skywards and a girl, age ten, and two boys, ages five and six, fell out.
The girl fell out immediately and suffered minor scrapes, but the boys didn't tumble out until the toy was 15 feet in the air.
One of the boys hit a parked car while the other landed in the street.
They were both taken to the hospital in stable condition, one in a medically induced coma with a head injury,
They interviewed the little girl last night and she was clearly traumatized...she said she was never going in a bounce house.
Three children hurt when tornado forms over ocean and sends inflatable bounce house flying after coming ashore on beach EF-0 tornado made landfall at Fort Lauderdale Beach in Florida on Monday Tornado, which started out as a waterspout, uprooted the house Children were ejected from the house after it soared 20 feet up in the air House lifted across parking lot into road and over four lanes of traffic Victims, six and 11, reported in stable condition but third could be critical Witness saw kids 'flying out of the bounce house' and 'hitting the ground'
Authorities say at least three children were injured after an EF-0 tornado made landfall at Fort Lauderdale Beach and sent a city-sponsored inflatable bounce house flying into the air.
The waterspout-turned-tornado came ashore Monday afternoon near the Bahia Mar hotel and sent the bounce house flying above palm trees, across a parking lot and over four lanes of traffic.
Video from the scene shows the waterspout - a whirling column of air and water mist - moving from the ocean before lifting the house above the tree line and finally depositing it in a heap.
Fort Lauderdale police Sgt DeAnna Greenlaw said the three children were taken to the hospital.
The kids were alert and conscious while being taken to Broward General Hospital.
An adult who was hurt refused to be transported to the hospital for treatment.
They were inside the bounce house when it went airborne and were ejected at an altitude of about 20 feet, WSVM reported.
FLP spokesman Keven Dupree said the kids appeared to have fallen out when the house first flipped over the beach.
Dupree said: 'They were immediately dropped out of the bounce house onto the sand.'
The mother of two of the children, a six-year-old girl and 11-year-old boy, said they were in stable condition.
The other child could be seriously injured, Local 10 reported.
Fort Lauderdale police were gathering details to update the condition of the injured children on Sunday afternoon but said the names of the 'injured juveniles will not be released'.
Burt Osteen, a 37-year-old flooring installer from Fort Lauderdale, and his family dove to the sand on their stomachs as they saw the waterspout spinning toward them.
'It came right over us. We laid on the ground; we were right in front of the bounce house. We watched it pick up the bounce house and snap a basketball hoop,' Osteen said.
He barely felt anything, though, when the waterspout passed over them.
The tablecloths on nearby picnic tables weren't even disturbed by the wind, he said.
'The only thing was the sand, getting stung by the sand,' he said.
Sgt Greenlaw said: 'This is an act of mother nature, something that could not be prevented, and we were unable to react quick enough to this waterspout.'
The officer added that the bounce house had been properly secured before it was lifted up.
The tornado may have grown to as large as 30ft wide and had an estimated maximum distance of a football field, according to the Palm Beach Post.
EF-0 tornadoes have gusts that range from 65-85mph, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
'Tornadic waterspouts are tornadoes that form over water, or move from land to water', according to the National Ocean Service.
'They have the same characteristics as a land tornado.
'They are associated with severe thunderstorms, and are often accompanied by high winds and seas, large hail, and frequent dangerous lightning.'
Bounce houses can weigh between 200-600 pounds, NBC Miami reported.
The owner of Connecticut Bounce House, Zach Aszklar, recommended not setting his products up on soft ground or on windy days after a similar incident last May near Albany, New York.
During that bounce house disaster, a three children were hurt when their ten-by-ten-foot roofless nylon bounce house broke loose from its plastic anchoring stakes because of strong winds.
The house was swept skywards and a girl, age ten, and two boys, ages five and six, fell out.
The girl fell out immediately and suffered minor scrapes, but the boys didn't tumble out until the toy was 15 feet in the air.
One of the boys hit a parked car while the other landed in the street.
They were both taken to the hospital in stable condition, one in a medically induced coma with a head injury,