A child was killed and homes were destroyed in the South as a massive storm wreaks havoc in the north

Eleven People are Critically Injured after a Major Tornado in Farmerville, La. (The Russo-Bogoliubonado)

At least 20 people were injured in the small town of Farmerville, Louisiana after a tornado struck on Tuesday night, according to a Farmerville Police Detective.

“There was total destruction on the south and east sides of Idabel,” Steven Carter, an emergency management coordinator for McCurtain County, told the Texarkana Gazette.

In Texas, authorities in Lamar County said at least 50 homes were damaged or destroyed and 10 people were treated at one hospital, including two with critical injuries. No dead people were reported immediately.

Judge Brandon Bell, the county’s highest elected official, declared a disaster in the area, a step in getting federal assistance and funding. Bell’s declaration said at least two dozen people were injured across the county.

Roughly 45 miles west of Idabel and 120 miles northeast of Dallas, Powderly is one of the hardest hit communities. Both Powderly and Idabel are near the Texas-Oklahoma border.

The Lamar County Sheriff’s Office and Emergency Management said the tornado touched down shortly after 4 p.m. and traveled north-northeast through the communities of Hopewell, Caviness, Beaver Creek and Powderly.

Nolan’s Search for a Child Missing in Keithville, Alabama, Tuesday, Aug. 17: Snow, Snow and Power Outages in the Northeast

Randi Johnson, chief of the Powderly Volunteer Fire Department, told The Paris News newspaper that she wasn’t aware anyone had been killed but knew of injuries.

In Louisiana, a child who was missing after a tornado touched down in Keithville Tuesday was found dead, and a search for the young boy’s mother is ongoing, the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post.

Nolan said that the damage he saw was the worst he had seen in 17 years.

First responders were still searching for people in the early morning hours Wednesday, Nolan said, adding several people were injured while traveling in cars.

Meanwhile, nearly 10 million people – largely in the north-central US – are under winter weather warnings or advisories, with blowing snow and power outages a key concern. There are winter storm watches in place for 6 million people in the northeast.

Parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle remain at increased risk for severe weather on Wednesday.

There will be snow over parts of the lower Great Lakes, Central Appalachians and the north of the Mid-Atlantic when the second storm develops over the Southern Appalachians.

Multiple Communities Throat Damaged by Power Outage.us in Wise County, Louisiana, on Tuesday, May 1 with Hurricane Matthews

Multiple communities throughout Louisiana reported destruction, with roofs ripped off, homes splintered, debris littering roadways and cars flipper over. More than 50,000 customers were left without power in Louisiana and Mississippi Wednesday, according to Power Outage.us. That number was down to less than 15,000 early Thursday.

There were at least five people injured by storms just outside Dallas. Businesses including a Grapevine mall, a Sam’s Club and a Walmart were damaged, police said.

Another two people were injured, and homes and businesses were damaged, in Wise County Tuesday morning, northwest of Fort Worth, county officials said. One person was hurt and the other was hurt by flying debris when the wind overturned their vehicle, officials said.

The tornado struck Wise County near the communities of Paradise and Decatur, damaging homes and businesses. There were homes with torn roofs in Decatur.

There was a kitchen closet where we were. “All we heard was whistling and my boyfriend got up to look outside of the window and he (saw) the tornado, the whole house was shaking and I (saw) my roof cave in and the house went dark.”

Highway closures in Rapid City and the Algiers area of St. Charles, Louisiana, due to the massive Mississippi river tornadoes on Wednesday

The state Department of Transportation said all of the roads from Nebraska into Colorado have been closed because of the weather.

Bill Taylor of the NWS said that the storm was expected to linger in the area through the end of the week.

Schools in the area of Rapid City will be closed Wednesday because of the snow, according to the school district’s Facebook page.

The interstate was closed from Rapid City to the Wyoming state line on Tuesday due to the cold weather.

The storm-related deaths include a 56-year-old woman who died after a tornado in the Killona area of St. Charles Parish.

The massive storm that brought the destruction to Louisiana and across the Southeast is part of a massive system that has also brought blizzard conditions in northern parts of the central US.

For Thursday, the storms are expected to weaken somewhat, but there is a risk for severe weather in Florida, coastal Georgia and coastal Carolinas. Cities could see storms of damaging winds, hail and tornadoes.

Mayor Constant said a tornado struck Gretna across the Mississippi river from New Orleans, damaging as many as 5,000 structures.

“All of a sudden that wind was so heavy, it broke my back door,” Andrews said. “The lights went off and all we could hear was glass popping everywhere.”

She said she and her daughter crawled into a hallway after water gushed through the roof, as glass shattered around them. They ended up taking shelter in their bathroom.

“We just got in the tub and we hugged each other. We just kept praying and I just kept calling on Jesus,” Andrews said. Her family survived the storm but were left with damage to their home.

In the Algiers area of New Orleans, four residents were taken to area hospitals as the storm battered the area on the west bank of the Mississippi River, Collin Arnold, director of the New Orleans Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness told CNN. Arnold stated that there was at least one house that collapsed in the area and other residences and businesses have been impacted.

Officials in St. Bernard Parish also reported “major damage” in Arabi, where a tornado touched down, they said, leaving much of the area without power.

Search and rescue efforts will continue through the night in Arabi, Sheriff James Pohlmann said. Ten people have been rescued due to the weather, but no injuries or deaths have been reported.

DeLucca Hernandez’s Storm-Runaway Pedestrian Journey Near Iberia in Carpinteria, California, A Witness to the Big Thunder

Cindy DeLucca Hernandez thought she could beat the storm while driving home after picking up her 16-year-old son from school. But on the journey, she found herself facing a tornado.

She said that when they saw the debris they got hit a couple of times and then she put the car in reverse. A boy and his mom made it home safe.

“Power lines down, homes severely damaged, rooftops ripped off,” he said in a video shared online describing the scene. There is a lengthy path of destruction on the west bank.

Iberia Medical Center “sustained a significant amount of damage,” police Capt. Leland Laseter said on Facebook. CNN has sought comment from the medical center.

The police department said on Facebook that several homes in the city were damaged and that people were trapped in the Southport subdivision.

On Tuesday evening, a weak tornado hit a mobile home park in Carpinteria – a seaside city northwest of Los Angeles, the weather service confirmed Wednesday. The service rated it as an EF-0, with winds of 75 mph.

The fire department decided that 11 of the 17 damaged buildings were too dangerous to use because of the intense microcell.

Additional video of the Montebello storm shows a swirling cloud of black debris as the roof of a nearby building gets blown off. Vehicles are damaged and shattered.

California Tornadoes and Landspouts in Light of Tuesday’s Intense Weak Conditions in the Los Alamos-Bay Area

There are more tornadoes in California than anywhere else, with fewer than 10 per year. In the state most tornadoes are small and short-lived.

They are commonly referred to as landspouts (similar to a waterspout, but over land). These differ from more traditional tornadoes that form from rotating thunderstorms, like those common in the Central Plains and the Southeast. While landspouts can cause damage, it is generally not extensive or severe.

Wednesday’s intense weather comes as California has been plagued in recent months by at least 12 atmospheric rivers that have brought devastating flooding and hurricane-force winds. An atmospheric river is like a fire hose that carries saturated air from the tropics to higher latitudes, dumping relentless rain or snow.

At least five people died due to the storm in the San Francisco Bay Area as fierce winds lashed cities on Tuesday, toppling trees and power lines. The city of San Francisco said its 911 call center had four times its normal call volume during the peak of the storm, which resulted in over 700 fallen trees and limbs and reports of glass and debris falling from high rise towers.