Tornado destroys home in southwest Wisconsin

GRANT COUNTY - We saw a few thunderstorms Tuesday night in Northeast Wisconsin, but they were much stronger in other parts of the state.

There was a tornado Grant County, which is in the southwestern corner of Wisconsin.

It was a fairly strong, but short-lived tornado.

The National Weather Service in La Crosse has confirmed that an EF-2 tornado touched down around 7:30 Tuesday night.

Thankfully, there are no reports of deaths or injuries.

However, the tornado did destroy one home and several outbuildings on a farm just northwest of the town of Bloomington.

The family living in that home is safe and staying with relatives.

Damage was about as localized as you can get.

The tornado lasted only two minutes and, in a cruel twist of fate, never left that family's property.

Those on the scene say the destruction was like something out of a movie.

“When I first came over the hill it looked very eerily like the last scene in the movie "Twister," just the shear amount of damage, the debris all over the location,” said Julie Loeffelholz, Grant County Emergency Management.

Tuesday's Grant County tornado was only the fourth tornado so far this year in Wisconsin.

Typically, the state has seen 21 by this point in the year based on our 30 year average.

The last time we had so few tornadoes this late in the year was in 1953.

And that year, four ended up being the final annual count as well.