Gulf States Severe Weather Outbreak
South of the wintry precipitation zone, severe weather erupted across the Gulf States, where a tornado was reported on February 12 in the New Orleans area killing one person and injuring a dozen in the Pontchartrain Park neighborhood, one of the hardest hit areas by Hurricane Katrina due to the flood waters. The woman was inside a FEMA trailer when it was hit by the EF2 twister. In addition to significant structural damage to numerous buildings including a dozen destroyed, 20,000 residents lost power across the metropolitan area. On the same day the tornado, or a related series of tornados, also struck the Carrollton and Hollygrove neighborhoods of New Orleans and the town of Westwego, Louisiana.
Severe weather was also reported south of Birmingham, Alabama, near Jackson, Mississippi as well as in Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina. 21 tornadoes in total were reported on February 12 and February 13 across Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama and 17 have been confirmed with no tornadoes stronger than EF2 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. A particularly strong squall line passed through Alabama on the evening of February 13 with reports of baseball-sized hail in Montgomery, Alabama.
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