SABINE PARISH, LA (KSLA) -
A storm survey team from the National Weather Service in Shreveport has discovered an EF0 tornado track in southern Sabine Parish in the Peason area that occurred during Wednesday's storms.
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An EF0 on the Fujita Scale means winds were measured in the range of 65 to 85 miles per hour.
The NWS reports that the twister touched down just northwest of Peason near Bridges Road and Hwy 118. The tornado continued southeast damaging numerous trees, two chicken houses and a shed. It continued southeast before limiting along Hwy 118 near the Sabine-Natchitoches Parish line.
Rickey Robertson, a Peason resident, says when he and his wife heard the tornado bearing down on them they hunkered down. "I believe in prayer, and we were in there, and we were asking to good Lord to put his hedge of protection around us. And, he did," says Robertson. The couple made it out untouched, but their barn is a different story. "I've got about 8 or 10 sheets of tin that it just rolled up. It rolled them and twisted them. I've never seen tin done like that," says Robertson.
Just up the road Donald Hall's chicken farming operation also received damage. One of the houses that survived the tornado holds nearly 18,000 baby chicks. However, two of the houses lost the roof, killing off a lot of his profit. "A twister come through Yesterday evening and it took the top off of it. We had to come pick up the dead chicks out of here. It killed about 3400 chicks out of here," says Hall.
Hall says he sells chickens every 35 days, but this time, his income will be much less. Now, a construction crew is working to make repairs on the chicken houses, while Hall is making sure the rest of his bunch is safe and warm.
The storm team headed to Mount Enterprise in Rusk County, Texas, to investigate damage that also occurred there on Wednesday.
The NWS reports an EF1 tornado track touched down along CR 3207 just south of Gatlin Cemetery Road where several trees were snapped and uprooted.The tornado crossed Hwy 259 where a portion of a roof was blown off a small retail building and across the street into the parking lot of a gas station and fast food restaurant. The twister crossed Hwy 84 west of CR 3198 and lifted just west of CR 3195.
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Sent in from a viewer in Fisher, LA in South Sabine Parish after the storms passed on Wednesday
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