A confirmed EF-1 tornado touched down last night in the Bayou Cane/Bayou Blue area.

The National Weather Service put out a report today confirming the touchdown, saying that the tornado spanned 0.19 miles and had a width of 50 yards, going from Bayou Cane to Bayou Blue.

Most of the area was under a tornado watch last night, but there were also several local warnings due to radar detected conditions highly favorable to a tornado.

But the Bayou Cane tornado was the only confirmed report of a touchdown locally.

A reader sent video of the worst of the storm hitting near his home.

See the footage below:

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Casey Gisclair joined The Lafourche Gazette in January 2020 and became our Editor in September 2021. Casey has covered our area as a reporter since 2010, and has a passion for telling the stories of our people in Lafourche Parish. Casey is also the host of Play by Play, a local talk radio show and is The Voice of South Lafourche Athletics.

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