The National Weather Service can take days to confirm whether winds were in fact tornadoes, but the impact was clear in places like Caddo Parish, Louisiana.
A large tornado landed in downtown New Orleans on Wednesday afternoon just after 4:00 pm a day after a similar storm devastated a small community in the northern part of Louisiana.
A volatile storm ripping across the U.S. spawned tornadoes blamed for killing at least three people in Louisiana, and the line of punishing weather threatened neighboring Southern states into the nighttime hours Wednesday.