It started in northern MS & did not lift up until western Tennessee.
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Christmastime tornadoes kill at least 14 in South
Meteorologist Jason Holmes said eyewitnesses spotted the funnel and the agency has confirmed its presence. Sean Edwards, a Birmingham police spokesman, there are no known injuries at this point.
The worst appeared to be over, but forecasters at the National Weather Service warned severe weather was possible in several states including Mississippi, Missouri and Oklahoma.
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Green said she was unsure of whether any neighbors had been injured or killed down the block where several homes were destroyed. Sean Edwards, a Birmingham police spokesman, said trees were down and people were trapped inside damaged houses.
The National Weather Service posted a warning for gale-force winds on Lake Michigan, where waves were expected to crest at 15 feet (4.6m).
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Planes at a small airport in the north-west of the state were overturned and an unknown number of people were injured. Another death was also reported in Marshall County, where Holly Springs is located.
The twister caught Lance Meeks by surprise when he stepped outside his door near Holly Springs.
“I’m looking at some horrific damage right now”, Clarksdale Mayor Bill Luckett was quoted by the AP news agency as saying. He cut up fallen trees not far from Goodwin’s home. Johnson planned on staying with relatives Wednesday night and said no one inside the house was injured.
A tree blew over onto a house in Arkansas, killing an 18-year-old woman and trapping a 1-year-old child inside, authorities said. The boy was in a auto with his family near Holly Springs, where a tornado came through the area.
Gregg Flynn, a spokesman for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, reported more than 40 injuries in the six hardest-hit counties.
The photo shows what the house looked like before the tornado hit.
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“Then I heard the big roaring, it didn’t last more than three minutes”, Green said. “We have a lot of gravel roads here”. “I told them to leave because if I was there as a storm chaser, it wasn’t safe”, he said. A few more people remained unaccounted for as search teams combed through debris after dark, he said.
The Red Cross has been assisting people who have lost their homes.
Three people died in Tennessee and one in Arkansas, according to authorities.
“She was laying in bed with her 18-month-old sister”. The baby was hospitalized. In all, 101 million Americans were at risk for severe weather.
The stormy weather scrambled winter getaway plans in Florida even as dreams of a white Christmas melted in northeastern swaths of the country where unseasonably warm temperatures prevailed.
Flood advisories are up for large sections of Georgia and the Carolinas after days of rain have soaked the region.
According to airline tracker FlightAware.com, more than 2,700 US flights were delayed as of Thursday afternoon, and almost 750 had been canceled.
Officials were inviting volunteers to step up or make donations as people returned to their homes to see what was left standing, if anything.
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“It wasn’t about the house. It was about the family”, he told affiliate WMC.
