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.
Three people are dead in Louisiana after tornadoes tore across the American South, destroying families' homes in the midst of holiday preparations. The storm system which had spawned dozens of reported tornadoes from east Texas to the Florida.
A storm system that spawned dozens of reported tornadoes from east Texas to the Florida Panhandle was all but done with the South on Thursday after killing at least three people and uprooting families across Louisiana, where some homes were blown into pieces.