Heavy winds early Friday damage houses, vehicles and utitlity lines on several streets in St. Bernard, including in Meraux, Chalmette, Violet and on Bayou Road further east; No injuries reported

Residents in the 2200 block of Judy Drive look at a patio cover that was torn from a home and blown down.

Diane Blache looks at damage in a rear glassed-in door at her home at 2300 Judy Drive in Meraux, a room which exploded outward from apparent pressure during heavy winds in St. Bernard Parish

A worker attends to roof damage on a home in St. Bernard Parish.

Several residents of St. Bernard Parish told stories Friday, Feb, 21, of seeing what they believe were tornadoes causing damage to their homes and vehicles between 1:30 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. in various parts of the parish, including eastern Chalmette, Meraux, Violet and further east on Bayou Road.

No one was reported injured and the National Weather Service hasn’t said whether the strong winds and rains that came through the parish contained actual tornadoes touching down, Sheriff James Pohlmann said.

Numerous utility poles were damaged.

Eric Blache, who lives on Judy Drive in Meraux, had a rear glassed-in room explode from apparent pressure, breaking glass and pushing walls outward about just after 1:30 a.m. Friday.

He said he struggled to keep a door closed separating the rear room from the rest of the house.

Blache’s home also had roof damage.

Catherine Washington, in the 2400 block of Walkers Lane, several blocks west of Judy Drive, said she was awakened by the sound of her back patio cover blowing against a rear door and saw the cover blown to the ground.

“It totally took it off,’’ Washington said of the wind.

All along a section of Judy Drive there was damage.

Ronnie Barattini and John Stroebel, neighbors on Judy Drive, said they were awake and saw from their homes the destruction that took place. They said they believed it was a tornado.

Barattini had a patio cover blown away and its support posts pulled from the ground, as well as numerous other damage.

Stroebel had less damage.

On the easter side of Judy Drive, a carport was torn from a home and blown down and next door the front door was blown out with such force there was glass in the wall inside.

On Bayou Road in eastern St. Bernard, Shane Lulei, a sheriff’s deputy, had a tree fall on his private vehicle during heavy wind after 2 a.m. He said he saw a trampoline blown in the air about 50 feet.