HOUSTON—Severe storms sweeping across southern portions of the U.S. and into the Midwest were blamed in the deaths of at least 11 people on Jan. 11, including two first responders, as high winds, tornadoes, and unrelenting rain battered large swaths of the country.
Storm-related fatalities were reported in Texas due to icy weather, in Alabama from a deadly tornado, and in Louisiana where winds were so strong that a trailer home was lifted off its foundation and carried several hundred feet. A man drowned in Oklahoma, and the storms even touched the Midwest with at least one death on an icy highway in Iowa.
