A twister touched down here early Monday afternoon, taking the roof off a mobile home but causing no injuries.

Michelle Goddard and her husband, David, weren’t at home when the twister struck, but Michelle Goddard’s father, Marvin Kastor, witnessed the destruction from his home next door. The twister snapped a tree in his yard and blew through his garden before heading toward his daughter’s home.

Kastor said it had been raining off and on all morning, but he wasn’t aware of any tornado warnings for the area, about six miles west of Live Oak on 68th Street. Before the twister came he saw the trees swaying, but all he could hear was the sound of wind. He said the incident lasted only about 15 seconds.

Another neighbor, who was talking on the phone, watched the incident from a window.

“Oh, my gosh I think we’re having a tornado. I’ve got to go,” Lisa Bomiant said she told the person at the other end of the line.

“I didn’t see the funnel cloud but I saw everything spinning around,” she said. “It was like seeing something on TV.”

Goddard and her daughter-in-law were in Live Oak when her mother called her with the news.

“We got home and this is what we came home to,” Goddard said, surveying the debris. “My husband’s barbecue grill is laying out in that pasture over there.”

The tornado tore off the home’s roof and sent parts of it sailing around the yard and on neighboring property. Part of the roof was left dangling from a power line at least 300 feet away. Kastor said he saw sparks fly when the debris landed on the power line.

Several items in the yard were tossed about as well. Part of a barbecue grill landed in a nearby field; the grill’s propane tank ended up lodged under a vehicle parked in the yard. A child’s plastic play set was torn apart and sent in three different directions. The skirting around the Goddards’ home was blown under the trailer and the fence line and yard were littered with debris.

Kastor said the twister also uprooted a tree and damaged the skirting of the home of another neighbor.

“It’s devastating, but it’s not as bad as it could have been,” Michelle Goddard said.