The tornado moves across the highway in New Iberia. (photo provided)

There were 42 tornadoes reported across Louisiana on Wednesday, including New Iberia.

In New Iberia, there were injuries, but no deaths reported.

However, there were three other deaths in the state reported.

The Louisiana Department of Health said a deadly tornado in St. Charles Parish sent a woman one street over and her son into the woods near their home.

The Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office said Yoshiko Smith, 30, of Keithville was found under debris while her son, Nikolus Little, 8, was found in a wooded area.

The Caddo Parish Coroner’s Office pronounced them dead at the scene and the Louisiana Department of Health said the cause of death was blunt force trauma.

A 56-year-old woman died in St. Charles Parish on Wednesday night. The Louisiana Department of Health said the tornado destroyed her home in the Killona area.

The Weather Channel said the Daily Iberian reported a tornado touchdown midday Wednesday in Iberia Parish. They also had tornado reports in Jefferson Parish in the afternoon that tracked from Gretna into the Algiers area of New Orleans and across the Mississippi River to the Lower 9th Ward and upper St. Bernard Parish.

The National Weather Service reported six possible tornadoes Tuesday night in Caddo, Union, Rapides, Madison, East Carroll and Franklin parishes. Gov. John Bel Edwards has declared a state of emergency and was traveling to northwest Louisiana to visit damaged areas.

The Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP) is asking anyone who sustained damage from the storms to file a report at damage.la.gov. Reporting damage to GOHSEP is voluntary but does not replace filing an insurance claim.

New Iberia Mayor Freddie DeCourt went out and saw the damage at Southport as the set of apartment buildings on Montaigne Street adjacent to a sugar cane field along Admiral Doyle Drive were completely destroyed as a result of the tornado.

“Montaigne and Southport took a brunt of the damage, there were flipped trailers and damage to apartments complexes with the roof off,” DeCourt said on Wednesday after the tornado. “There were some people trapped and the sheriff’s department and the police department and the fire department worked together, they searched all the residences, got a few people out. We were blessed, there doesn’t seem to be too many major injuries.”

DeCourt notified agencies and New Iberia Senior High became a staging area and command center. School was closed on Wednesday and emergency services used the boys’ gym, DeCourt said.

DeCourt was in emergency vehicles assessing the damage. Like the governor, he was impressed with the response time and different agencies working together.

“The response time was really quick, when I heard about it, jumped in the Chief’s truck there were already multiple agencies on site,” he said. “It’s always a bad situation, but refreshing to see our crews working together as well as they do and to watch our first responders to pull together from various departments and agencies. Watching them work together is just good.”