The Latest: Woman killed, toddler injured in Arkansas (storm)

Source: AP

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The latest on the severe storms moving across the U.S. and the unusually warm December weather (all times local):

11:40 a.m.

Authorities in western Arkansas say an 18-year-old woman was killed and a 1-year-old child was injured when powerful winds uprooted a tree and knocked it onto a house.

The Pope County Sheriff's Office says five people were in the home near Atkins when the tree fell shortly before 8 a.m. Wednesday. Three people escaped unharmed but the woman and the toddler were trapped inside the home about 65 miles northwest of Little Rock.

FULL story at link. It is pouring rain here.


This is the National Weather Underground forecast for Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015. A long cold front will set off a few showers and storms in the Gulf Coast states and along the Eastern Seaboard. Snow showers will develop over much of the Intermountain West and the Pacific Northwest. The Southwest could see a few rain showers as well. (Weather Underground via AP)

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