Many New Orleanians’ relief was mixed with frustration over what they saw as overblown reporting before the storm from national media outlets excited by the possibility of a disaster on the scale of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Scott Paisant, a veteran local radio personality who goes by Scoot, dedicated much of his Sunday talk show on WWL to the topic of storm hype.

“The national media made it seem as if the levees were overflowing, but it was like, it wasn’t actually a levee per se, it was beyond the levee,” he said, referring to video footage. “But they used that video to make it seem like the whole state was about to flood.”

Even so, Gov. John Bel Edwards reminded Louisianans in a statement that serious threats remained from the slow-moving storm, including “increased tornadic activity and a continued chance for more flash flooding as well, especially in the Acadiana region,” the traditionally Francophone area of prairie and bayous stretching west from New Orleans.

The National Weather Service warned Sunday afternoon that “life-threatening flash flooding” could still be expected along the storm’s path inland across portions of Arkansas, Mississippi, southeast Missouri and western Tennessee at least through Monday. “Significant river flooding is also likely across south-central Louisiana,” the warning said.

A tornado touched down in Denham Springs, a city east of Baton Rouge, around 8:15 a.m., the National Weather Service confirmed. Another possible tornado was spotted on the eastern edge of Baton Rouge around 10:20 a.m. Damage was reported, including a trampoline hurled into the air.