THE NATION - News from May 5, 2009
A tornado injured three people and damaged nearly two dozen homes in southern Louisiana, a day after severe storms across the Southeast killed one person.
A woman was treated for a broken leg after the twister ripped through part of Catahoula around 6 a.m., said Major Ginny Higgins of the St. Martin Parish Sheriff’s Department.
Higgins said two other people had minor injuries.
The National Weather Service said the tornado was 50 to 100 yards wide when it tore through the area about 140 miles northwest of New Orleans.
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