NEW ORLEANS — Three deaths in Louisiana were attributed to a strong line of severe weather that moved through the state Monday, according to the Louisiana Department of Health.
The storms slammed several southern states including Louisiana and Mississippi, but the metro New Orleans area was largely spared the worst as the storms seemed to weaken moving through the state.
The St. Martin’s Parish coroner said that a woman died in Cecilia after a camper rolled over due to the high winds.
And a West Baton Rouge Parish coroner said that a 31-year-old woman and her unborn child were killed when a tree fell on the trailer she lived in.
The victim was nine months pregnant and the LDH is counting the unborn child among the dead.
More than 60,000 customers in Louisiana were without power Tuesday morning, according to PowerOutage.us, which tracks outages nationwide.
Some of the worst weather Monday was in the Florida Panhandle, where a tornado watch was in effect. Roads flooded and stalled 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 (7.6 centimeters) of rain had fallen.
Florida and parts of south Georgia were again under the threat of severe weather Tuesday, with tornadoes still possible, according to the national Storm Prediction Center. Another area at risk of storms Tuesday covered parts of Tennessee, north Georgia and north 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.