A winter storm prompted a National Weather Service office in Louisiana to issue a first-ever blizzard warning. The storm is causing dangerous conditions from Texas to North Carolina.

A winter storm was on a track to sweep through Texas and Louisiana, across the Gulf Coast and deep into Florida, significant snow and ice in tow.

The blast of Arctic air has made it all the way to the Gulf Coast today. That colder air is meeting up with a juicy coastal storm in the Gulf of Mexico resulting in a blitz of winter weather in areas where winter weather isn't all that common.