Tornado Drops Tree Limb on Texas Mobile Home, 1 Dead
Posted/updated on: February 23, 2013 at 4:46 pm
HEMPHILL (AP/Staff) — One woman is dead after a tornado whipped through rural East Texas. According to KETK, weather officials have determined that the twister was an EF-1. That category includes tornadoes with winds of 86-110 mph. Sabine County Sheriff Tom Maddox says the storm streaked across the southwestern corner of the county on the Louisiana border about 1:30 p.m. Thursday. Maddox says the storm dropped a tree limb onto a mobile home, fatally injuring 74-year-old Louise Pillow Stringer. Maddox says 25 homes were damaged.
