A dark funnel cloud touched down at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday , flattening buildings and turning over vehicles in the Arabi area of St. Bernard Parish.
On Tuesday, the Biden administration said it was allocating more than $1.7 billion to Louisiana after the last two destructive hurricane seasons, local media reported. "The path the storm took - it's devastation," he said. "It did major destruction. Houses are off their foundations and into the street, no longer there, just blown to pieces."Local media footage showed rubble where houses once stood, debris strewn across streets, overturned vehicles and power cables on the ground.