Tornado Reports in Southern Louisiana
Storms started firing off early Sunday morning across the south. Some of these storms prompted the National Weather Service to issue Tornado Warnings for parishes in southern Louisiana.
TORNADO WARNING Lafourche and Jefferson Parishes until 10:30 AM CDT. Storm is moving northeast at 30 mph. pic.twitter.com/PISDkmhcoe
— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) April 22, 2018
Reports were coming in from local emergency management of a tornado spotted and damage across areas like Galliano in Lafourche Parish.
Multiple tornado warnings were issued south of New Orleans, Louisiana Sunday morning. Kelly Moore captured this video at around 9:50 a.m. local time in Galliano, which is about 70 miles south of The Big Easy. #lawx pic.twitter.com/RKm8rZcOCq
— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) April 22, 2018
Reports were coming in of roofs ripped off buildings, down power lines, and cars pushed into ditches.
These are just some of the images of the damage that occurred Sunday morning.
The National Weather Service office in New Orleans will be sending out a team to survey the damage.
For WeatherNation, Meteorologist Kate Mantych.