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 A 75-year-old woman was killed about 45 miles (72 km) outside
Birmingham, Alabama, when high wind brought a tree down on her
trailer, said Walker County coroner J.C. Poe.
Her husband, who was also in the trailer, was taken to hospital with
injuries, Poe said.
Further west, outside the town of Ashdown, Arkansas, a 33-year-old
man was killed when a tornado touched down early on Monday, said
National Weather Service meteorologist Kurt Van Speybroeck.
 The man and a 34-year-old woman, who was critically injured, were
thrown from a trailer, while three children between the ages 6 and
16 were found with injuries in the debris, Van Speybroeck said.
Another nearby mobile home was damaged, but there were no reports of
other injuries. A separate tornado formed further north and damaged
three structures that had been hit by a tornado this month,
according to the National Weather Service.
The storm system, which stretched from the Texas to Alabama, is
expected to continue moving eastward on Tuesday, according to Van
Speybroeck.
"I wouldn't say it's unusual, but it's a potent weather system," Van
Speybroeck said.
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Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency, after
the storm brought down power lines and damaged structures across the
state.
The Alabama Power Company said 33,000 establishments were without
power across the state as of Monday night.
(Reporting by Sherrel Stewart in Birmingham, Alabama and Curtis
Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Robert Birsel)
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