PAINCOURTVILLE, LA (WAFB) - The National Weather Service has upgraded the Paincourtville tornado to an EF-3 rating, which make it the strongest on record for Assumption Parish. The tornado took a ...

However, it was the people who live and work in the hardest hit area along Highway 1 in Paincourtville that were trying to come to terms with reality after a tornado ripped through the area Tuesday.