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Tornado touches down in Vernon Parish

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A brief tornado touched down four miles east northeast of the Toledo Bend Dam in Vernon Parish Friday morning, the National Weather Service confirmed this evening.

The tornado touched down just west of Highway 111 at 6:12 a.m. before crossing the highway just south of its intersection with Highway 392.

According to a storm survey, the tornado snapped several pine trees before lifting just east of the highway.