1 death, damaged homes blamed on possible tornados as storm sweeps through Louisiana

1 death blamed on possible tornados in La.

LAFAYETTE, La. — Powerful thunderstorms swept across Louisiana, producing possible tornadoes and high winds blamed in the death of one person.

Capt. Kip Judice, patrol commander of the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office, says a man in Scott, outside Lafayette in south Louisiana, died and his wife was injured when high winds toppled a tree onto their home Thursday morning.

Maxine Trahan, a spokeswoman for the Acadia Parish Sheriff’s Office, said that near Crowley, which is about 30 miles west of Lafayette, several homes in a subdivision were damaged — and some destroyed — by a possible tornado.

The storms came just over a week after drenching rains caused flooding in parts of southeastern Louisiana and produced one of the wettest months on record for the New Orleans area.