BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – The National Weather Service is confirming that a tornado hit the community of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, and flipped a mobile home, killing a woman and her 3-year-old daughter.
The weather agency said Sunday that a tornado with peak winds of 110 mph traveled for nearly 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) on the ground and had a width of about 20 yards. The agency classified the tornado as an EF1. Louisiana’s governor is warning residents that the state should be on “high alert” for the storms and is urging people to stay off the roads.

The storm also damaged homes and buildings and knocked down power lines in Alexandria, Louisiana, which is about 100 miles north of Breaux Bridge.