Tragedy struck Louisiana Tuesday night after a potential tornado tore through the town of Keithville, killing a boy and prompting first responders to search for his 30-year-old mother.
According to the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to Lareta Street in Pecan Farms after reports of a tornado. The agency said several structures in the area were damaged and power lines and trees were downed.
After a large search for a missing child and mother, the sheriff’s office reported that an 8-year-old boy was found dead in a wooded area of Pecan Farms, where the home was destroyed.
As of early Wednesday morning, deputies, K-9 teams, firefighters and volunteers were still searching through the rubble for the mother.
BIG SNOW STORM GENERATES NATIONAL VENTIVES, TORNADOES IN THE SOUTH
Significant damage in Keithsville, Louisiana after a tornado ripped through the town on Tuesday, December 13, 2022, killing an 8-year-old boy and sending first responders searching for his mother.
(Caddo Parish Fire District Number Four)
A man and a woman were also transported to the hospital with unknown injuries. The sheriff’s office said deputies from Caddo Parish are going from house to house to check on residents.
Caddo Parrish Fire District Four posted the following statement on Facebook early Wednesday morning:
“Please keep our first responders and our community members in your thoughts and prayers tonight as an absolutely devastating tornado touched down in the southern part of the parish.”
News outlets in Louisiana also reported up to 25 injuries in Union Parish after a tornado tore through a neighborhood in Farmerville Tuesday night. No deaths were reported.
WINTER WEATHER HIT SIERRA NEVADA, DROPPING RAIN AND SNOW ACROSS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
The deadly tornado in Louisiana was part of a massive outbreak of severe weather that moved east across the United States, creating tornadoes in southern states and blizzard-like conditions from the Midwest to the Northeast.
Earlier in the day, the National Weather Service in Fort Worth, Texas, confirmed that five tornadoes touched down in the northern part of the state, but possibly a dozen have occurred.
At least five people were injured in the Dallas suburb of Grapevine after a possible tornado ripped through the city.
A highway was closed in Grapevine, Texas, after a potential tornado tore through the town injuring at least five people.
(Grapevine Police Department/Facebook)
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The severe weather threat extends through Wednesday for Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle, according to the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma.
