7:25 p.m.
The meteorologist in charge for the National Weather Service's southeast Louisiana office says at least seven tornadoes have hit southeast Louisiana and southwest Mississippi.
Ken Graham says that number includes the one that slammed into a trailer park in Convent, Louisiana, Tuesday and one that killed a person near Purvis, Mississippi.
Graham said teams will be sent out in the morning to document the damage and rate the tornadoes.
Severe weather has been moving through southern Louisiana and Mississippi. At least three people have been killed - two in Louisiana and one in Mississippi.
Graham said a lightning strike hit the building where the weather service is located in Slidell, knocking out their radar systems and forcing them to go to backup systems.
7:10 p.m.
A Louisiana sheriff says a second person is confirmed dead after a tornado ripped through an RV park.
St. James Parish Sheriff Willy Martin says at least two people were killed when the twister hit the park in Convent.
He said authorities are using dogs to search piles of rubble left in the wake of the storm to find anyone else still missing under the debris.
Martin said at least 30 people were wounded. Of those, seven are in critical condition.
The tornado was part of a line of severe weather that has been moving through southern Louisiana, wreaking havoc across the region.
6:20 p.m.
The sheriff of a southern Louisiana parish where a tornado is believed to have touched down says at least one person is dead at an RV park.
Sheriff Willy Martin, speaking on local television, says there was one fatality and possibly may be another victim at the recreational vehicle park in Convent. Martin says authorities are still looking for people believed to be trapped under the debris.
He said he could not give an accurate number of people injured but that he saw at least 25 people with injuries - some who were able to walk out while others were more severe.
The reported tornado is part of a line of severe weather and storms that has ripped through Louisiana.
5:55 p.m.
Authorities say at least one person has died after a possible tornado touched down in Mississippi.
Vann Byrd of the Lamar County Emergency Management Agency says the death occurred Tuesday in a mobile home west of Purvis. Byrd didn't release the person's name.
Byrd says officials are still sorting through reports of damage to some buildings.
David Cox, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Pearl, Mississippi, says forecasters spotted debris on the ground on Tuesday afternoon that is a typical hallmark of a tornado. Storm damage was also reported at a second location in the county that appeared to be caused by the severe storm system.
5:10 p.m.
An emergency management official in west Alabama says a storm has knocked down trees and damaged at least one home near the rural town of Reform.
Ken Gibson, emergency management director in Pickens County, says no one was injured in the storm Tuesday.
The National Weather Service tweeted that radar showed an apparent twister in the area around the time the damage was reported, but Gibson says he isn't sure what had happened.
"I don't know if it was a small tornado, straight-line winds or a microburst," he said.
