NEW ORLEANS - At least one person was killed and many others were injured after a large tornado tore through New Orleans and surrounding areas on Tuesday night, leaving a trail of damage in its wake as it flipped cars and even lifted a house into the air and dropped it onto the street with a family inside.Videos showed a large, multi-vortex tornado that went into the Arabi area, a suburb of New Orleans.
It then moved east across the Mississippi River into the Lower 9th Ward and parts of St. Bernard Parish — both of which were badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina 17 years ago.St.
Bernard Parish, which borders New Orleans to the southeast, appeared to take the brunt of the weather's fury. One person was killed in the area, though St.
Bernard Parish officials gave no details on how they died. Authorities added that multiple other people were injured. Other tornadoes spawned by the same storm system caused so much damage in Texas that the governor declared a disaster in 16 counties, and shredded buildings in Alabama, where torrential rainfall was recorded.