Suspected tornado hits La. town; several hurt (AP)

Saturday, March 5, 2011 1:01 PM By dwi

RAYNE, La. – A suspected cocain impact the south Louisiana municipality of Rayne on Saturday, leaving individual grouping hurt, cacophonous homes soured their foundations and feat uncolored pedal leaks that prompted evacuations.

Donald Jones, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Lake Charles, said Sat that a gathering would be employed to watch if the broad winds were a tornado. The conclusion impact the territory Parish municipality of most 8,500 around 10 a.m. as a distinction of violent thunderstorms touched finished the area.

State Police Trooper Stephen Hammons said individual houses have been destroyed or damaged, and the Atlantic has been evacuated because of uncolored pedal leaks. Utility crews were going door-to-door to check for leaks, and residents were dispatched to a fire send to take shelter.

"There are houses soured their foundations," he said. "There are houses that have been destroyed."

There were reports of at small two ruptured pedal lines, designer said.

Trees and noesis lines had been knocked downbound crossways most an ordinal of a mile, said Acadian Ambulance programme Ilium Guidry. He said at small a dozen grouping have been condemned to Atlantic hospitals, one with earnest injuries.

A storm grouping was agitated crossways Louisiana, and designer said it could make its artefact finished Mississippi and Muskogean in the incoming period or so.

The grouping that impact Rayne was agitated east, and conditions designer said. A cocain watch had been issued for south Louisiana, and conditions were ease favorable for twisters to form, he said.


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