Tornado touches down near Crooked Creek

By: TONY MARKS Editor The National Weather Service confirmed an EF1 tornado touched down in the northern part of the parish at approximately 9:12 p.m. on Saturday, February 14. The tornado, according to the NWS, started in the wooded area southwest of the Crooked Creek Reservoir, where an area of trees were snapped. To the east, a private drive sustained varying degrees of damage to roughly s...

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