Louisiana Tornadoes Kill One, Hurt Three as Cold Grips North

Thunderstorms and tornadoes moved across Louisiana on Sunday, killing one woman, while Arctic air sent temperatures plunging in parts of the Northeast and upper Midwest.

At Nicholson, in southern Mississippi, a tornado destroyed two mobile homes and a brick house Sunday afternoon, and another tornado caused minor damage when it touched down in Lowndes County in the eastern part of the state.

In Michigan, several cities recorded subzero lows overnight, with Alpena shivering in a record minus 21, and state police said two people died in weather-related car crashes on slippery roads during the weekend.

Flooding of the ice-jammed St. Clair River prompted voluntary evacuations of 10 homes Sunday, as the water rose in East China Township.

One woman died when a twister slashed across a mobile home park near Sulphur, in southwestern Louisiana.

Three people were injured, two of them requiring hospitalization, when another tornado touched down at about 11:15 a.m. near the Pierre Part community in southeast Louisiana’s Assumption Parish.

In the Northeast, the problem was bitter cold.

New York City recorded its coldest weather in two years on Sunday when the reading in Central Park dropped to 4 degrees.

In Boston, about 200 homes were without electricity overnight, as the temperature fell to 1 below, because of an overload on the system, a spokesman for Boston Edison said.