In Union Parish, near the Arkansas line, Farmerville Mayor John Crow said a tornado Tuesday night badly damaged an apartment complex where 50 families lived, wiping out a neighboring trailer park with about 10 homes. The storms battered Louisiana from north to south. "He just went to go shopping for his family, came home and the house was gone," said Jones. Casey Jones said the boy's father had gone for groceries before the storm. Smith, 30, was located under storm debris early Wednesday.Ĭaddo Parish Sheriff's Sgt. The Caddo Parish Coroner's Office said the body of 8-year-old Nikolus Little was found late Tuesday night in some woods and the body of his mother, Yoshiko A. He had issued an emergency declaration earlier in the day. John Bel Edwards told reporters, noting the challenge faced by emergency responders as he toured a mile-long path of destruction in rural Keithville. "You go to search a house and the house isn't even there, so where do you search?" Gov. But this was a horrific and a very violent tornado."Ībout 280 miles away in northern Louisiana, it took hours for authorities to find the bodies of a mother and child missing after a tornado swept away their mobile home Tuesday in Keithville, south of Shreveport. Charles Parish Sheriff Greg Champagne said of the woman killed. "She was outside the residence, so we don't know exactly what happened," St. Eight people were taken to hospitals with injuries, they said. Charles Parish, west of New Orleans, said a woman was found dead there after a suspected tornado on Wednesday struck the community of Killona along the Mississippi River, damaging homes. Parish President Guy McInnis said the damage was less than in the March tornado though numerous roofs were blown away or damaged.Īuthorities in St. Bernard Parish - where the March twister caused devastation - Sheriff Jimmy Pohlman said the latest tornado damage covered a roughly 2-mile stretch. A tornado passes a highway in New Iberia, Louisiana, on Dec. "This tint saved my life," Willis said, holding up his busted passenger window. He says the tinting on the glass stopped anything from hitting him. "I tried to play hard for a second and then I balled up like 'Naw, God I ain't ready to go right now,'" Willis said.ĭebris smashed through his windshield and busted his passenger window. Looking at the damage, he knows how lucky he is. The power wires, everything was everywhere and then is started raining hard," Willis said. Willis says he immediately started praying and didn't know if he was safe. "I'm looking at wood, buildings, all in the same spin, like it's spinning with me and then it just slung me out." I've never been inside a tornado before," Willis said. In the city of Gretna, the parish seat of Jefferson Parish, Michael Willis was sitting in his SUV when, he says, the tornado lifted him up, according to CBS New Orleans affiliate WWL-TV. Among the heavily damaged buildings was the sheriff's office's training academy building. "Several homes and businesses have suffered catastrophic damage," the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said in a statement from that large suburb west of New Orleans. Four people were injured there, he said, adding, "The last word we had is that they were stable." New Orleans emergency director Collin Arnold said businesses and residences in the city suffered significant wind damage, largely on the Mississippi River's west bank. A vehicle has all its windows blown out from tornado damage in Gretna, La., in Jefferson Parish, neighboring New Orleans, on Dec. As night drew on, tornado threats eased in Mississippi, although some counties in Florida and Alabama remained under a severe weather threat. Bernard parishes - including areas badly damaged by the March tornado.Ī tornado struck New Iberia, Louisiana, slightly injuring five people and smashing out windows of a multistory building at Iberia Medical Center, the hospital said. Charles Parish and another that pummeled parts of New Orleans and neighboring Jefferson and St. The system spun off a suspected tornado that killed a woman Wednesday in southeast Louisiana's St. The punishing storms barreled eastward Wednesday after killing a mother and son in the northwestern part of the state a day earlier.
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