Tornadoes tear through swaths of north Texas and southern Oklahoma - NBC News

A kid died successful Louisiana and dozens were injured arsenic tornadoes and storms tore crossed the Southern U.S. connected Tuesday portion Northern states faced blizzard conditions, officials said.

In Louisiana, a lad was recovered dormant successful a wooded country adjacent Keithville, southbound of Shreveport, wherever his location was destroyed, Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office said aboriginal Wednesday. The hunt for the child's parent was ongoing.

A tornado touched down southbound of Shreveport, damaging respective homes and knocking down trees and powerfulness lines, according to the sheriff's office.

At slightest 2 radical were hospitalized successful the parish, the sheriff’s bureau said. Their conditions weren’t instantly known.

About 20 radical were besides injured successful Farmerville, Louisiana, a municipality astir 30 miles northwest of Monroe, wherever determination were aggregate reports of harm Tuesday night, according to police.

In Texas, 5 injuries, which were reported to beryllium minor, occurred aft a tornado struck Grapevine, a metropolis of astir 50,000 betwixt Dallas and Fort Worth, the metropolis authorities said.

The National Weather Service successful Fort Worth said determination whitethorn person been 12 tornadoes, which volition beryllium confirmed by tempest surveys. An already confirmed tornado was said to person been an EF-2 with 125 mph winds successful Wise County, it said.

The terrible upwind successful Texas occurred arsenic a large wintertime tempest was besides pummeling Louisiana, with much than 10 cardinal radical nether wintertime upwind warnings oregon advisories crossed the Rockies and the bluish Plains states.

Another 643,000 were nether blizzard warnings, mostly successful Wyoming, South Dakota and Nebraska, according to the upwind service.

High winds toppled big-rig trucks Tuesday greeting successful Parker and Wise counties successful Texas, according to the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center.

A storm passed done Rockwall County, Texas, pelting the country with hail the size of tennis balls, officials said.

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport issued a “shelter successful place” warning astatine 8:51 a.m. asking anyone adjacent the airport, 1 of the country's busiest, to hunker down and enactment distant from windows. The caution was cleared in little than 10 minutes.

Storm harm successful Wayne, Okla.NewsNation

In McClain County, Oklahoma, southbound of Oklahoma City, what is believed to person been an EF-2 tornado with winds of up to 125 mph was connected the crushed for astir 3 miles, according to the upwind work in Norman.

No injuries were reported, according to the upwind agency, but the county exigency absorption agency reported aggregate "family structures damaged," with powerfulness poles and trees successful the roads.

Students of Wayne Public Schools successful McClain County were told to enactment location Tuesday due to the fact that of “no energy and the precocious probability of tempest damage,” the territory said.

In Grapevine, the terrible upwind struck astatine 8:45 a.m., constabulary and the metropolis said successful a statement.

Downed power lines and trees littered roads, and authorities asked residents to debar definite neighborhoods arsenic nationalist information crews to their enactment Tuesday.

The beardown winds appeared to peel disconnected parts of the extortion of the Sam's Club. The megastore, on with the Grapevine Mills promenade and Walmart successful Grapevine, was closed for the time arsenic respective "city roads stay closed owed to debris and downed powerfulness lines," police said.

In the frigid upwind successful the Northern portion of the country, each roads from Nebraska into Colorado were closed Tuesday due to the fact that of the large wintertime storm, which included precise debased visibility, the Nebraska Transportation Department said.

“If your destination is west, present is the clip to stop,” it warned, urging travelers to find harmless places to thrust retired the storm. Interstate 80 was closed from North Platte to Wyoming.

Roads were closed successful South Dakota, too. Interstate 90 was closed from Chamberlain to Wyoming, and determination were question advisories elsewhere, the authorities Transportation Department said.

A antheral works connected a gathering during a snowstorm successful Lehi, Utah, connected Tuesday.George Frey / AFP - Getty Images

Westbound Interstate 70 was closed adjacent the Kansas-Colorado borderline due to the fact that of fearfulness of unsafe wintertime weather, officials successful some states said.

Heavy snowfall made question hard passim overmuch of the portion arsenic a blizzard informing successful Scottsbluff, Nebraska, was acceptable done 5 a.m. MT Thursday.

Up to 20 inches of snowfall was forecast to autumn on the acold occidental borderline of the state.