Wednesday's recap: Watch video of tornadoes in Louisiana

This was a live blog, updated every hour as a multi-day severe weather outbreak gets underway for the South. You can track the storms using our WeatherRadar and our team of meteorologists continues to track weather happening across the nation, check out our News Stream section.

As severe storms move eastward and the night progresses the threat of tornadoes will begin to wind down. There will only be a risk of a very isolated strong storm moving over eastern Alabama and southern Georgia.

On Thursday, it will mark day 4 of severe weather. The main threat will be isolated storms mainly affecting the Florida Peninsula. There could be a few strong to severe storms and the possibility of a tornado, or two, cannot be ruled out.

So far today there have been 18 tornado reports across Mississippi and Louisiana. At 6 p.m. Central Time, the storms are moving over Alabama and Florida's Panhandle and there are several tornado warnings in effect.

Across the Florida Panhandle, there are a few storm cells that are moving in from the Gulf of Mexico.

A confirmed tornado was located near Arabi, or near Chalmette, Louisiana moving northeast at 35 mph. The line of storms continues to move east and it is now entering Alabama. From Hattiesburg, Alabama to its southwest almost to New Orleans, several severe thunderstorm warnings are in effect. Most of these warnings show signs that there could be possible tornadoes embedded in them, damaging winds of at least 60 mph, and hail.

This is a critical time as the atmosphere has reached almost its maximum heating and there is plenty of moisture for numerous storms to continue developing and turning severe.

There is good news for cities over the west and south central Louisiana, from Lake Charles through LaFayette the severe risk has diminished. There are still some flood watches in effect as there could still be some spotty showers moving through.

New Orleans is still dealing with severe storms and even some radar-detected storms that could be rotating. From this time through 5 p.m. CT, the threat will be the highest. After 6 p.m. Central Time, the threat will diminish for the New Orleans region and surroundings.

By the early evening, Mobile, Tensaw through Camden, Alabama will continue to be at risk for numerous severe storms, some of which can produce tornadoes.

Check out the storms that will be moving through the next few hours into late Wednesday night in our Interactive WeatherRadar.

The storms enter the area where they have more chance to become more prolific and severe. Please make sure to stay weather aware and have at least 3 ways of receiving weather alerts. From New Orleans through Mobile, there could be numerous severe storms with a few dangerously strong tornadoes.

Check out the tornado that hit New Iberia, Louisiana early Wednesday.

Just as we discussed last night It's almost noon Central Time and storms are moving across southeastern Louisiana. The WeatherRadar shows intense storms moving ashore over southern Louisiana, moving to the northeast. The severe weather threat will continue to push east throughout the day.

So far this morning there have been 5 preliminary reports of tornadoes. Three of them were in Mississippi and two in Louisiana. In Louisiana, dying debris was detected on radar, and the tornado was spotted crossing Highway 90 over the south side of New Iberia just to the southeast of Lafayette, Louisiana.

In Mississippi, in Madison County, several mobile homes reported damage, and some were destroyed as an apparent tornado hit the area around 6 a.m. CT Wednesday.