A tornado has touched down in New Orleans and the city's suburbs Tuesday as part of a line of severe weather that started in Texas and Oklahoma and moved east into the Deep South.
NEW ORLEANS -- A tornado tore through parts of New Orleans on Tuesday night, spawned by a storm that produced multiple tornadoes through parts of Texas and Oklahoma, killing one person and causing multiple injuries and widespread damage.
Guy McGinnis, president of St. Bernard Parish, told WWL-TV that the parish had"widespread damage" in parts of the parish that borders New Orleans to the east. Search and rescue teams were going through homes looking for people and responding to at least two calls from people who said they were trapped in their homes in their bathrooms.It wasn't immediately known whether anyone was injured.
High water posed a threat to motorists early Tuesday in Louisiana on several roads, including a stretch of Interstate 20 and several state highways after rains overnight, authorities said. Deputies in Caddo Parish, which includes Shreveport, rescued three drivers from high waters during the night, the sheriff's office tweeted before dawn.
Louisiana's federal and state authorities reminded thousands of hurricane survivors living in government-provided mobile homes and recreational vehicle trailers to have an evacuation plan because the structures might not withstand the expected weather. More than 8,000 households live in such temporary quarters, officials said.
"There's absolutely nothing out of the ordinary in terms of what we saw yesterday and we see today," said Victor Gensini, a meteorology professor at Northern Illinois University, who studies severe storms. It's the time of year when tornadoes and storms are to be expected and there are usually more during years with a La Nina, a natural cooling of parts of the Pacific that alters weather across the globe, he said.
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