At least one person has died in Louisiana after storms ravaged several southern states, including many areas previously hit during one of the most active periods for tornadoes on record.
The death occurred near the city of Henderson, St. Martin Parish Sheriff Becket Breaux and Henderson Mayor Sherbin Collette both confirmed on social media. They said a tornado appeared to have hit the area, but did not provide details on how the person died. Henderson is located about 100 miles west of New Orleans.
More than 60,000 customers in Louisiana were without power Tuesday morning, according to PowerOutage.us, which tracks nationwide outages.
Some of the worst weather on Monday was in the Florida Panhandle, where a tornado watch was in effect. Roads flooded and blocked vehicles in Escambia County, the National Weather Service reported. There were also flash flood warnings for Alabama’s Gulf Coast, where more than 3 inches of rain fell.
Florida and parts of southern Georgia were again threatened by severe weather on Tuesday, with tornadoes still possible, according to the national Storm Prediction Center. Another area at risk for storms on Tuesday covered parts of Tennessee, northern Georgia and northern Alabama.
Monday’s storms came shortly after one of the most active periods of severe weather in U.S. history, from April 25 through May 10, the National Weather Service said in a recent report. At least 267 tornadoes were confirmed by the weather service during that time, the agency said.
Among the many tornadoes: A pair of tornadoes caused heavy damage in Florida’s capital, Tallahassee, on Friday. As the two tornadoes crossed the city from east to west, they damaged homes and businesses, caused a construction crane to collapse and severely damaged the fencing of the baseball stadium at Florida State University, the weather service said.
