“It was yellow and it was roaring, lightning just continually, and it was making a awful noise”, she said. “Rolled right over me”. In all, 101 million Americans were at risk for severe weather.
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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.
Bobby Watkins said as he and his wife took a walk amid the destruction in rural Benton County, Mississippi, where four people – including a married couple and two neighbors on the same street – were confirmed dead and their homes destroyed. It started in northern MS & did not lift up until western Tennessee.
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Governor Phil Bryant says he will ask President Obama to declare MS a disaster.
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Sources close to the veterans said they were also not happy with the party’s response to their concerns. This, sources said, was the primary reason the group didn’t issue any statement after the meeting.
A rare tornado touched down in Canton, Michigan, and about 15,000 homes in the state and neighbouring Wisconsin were without electricity.
According to Lt. Sean Edwards, a Birmingham police spokesman, there are no known injuries at this point. The region has been soaked by days of rain. “If it is continuous it would be the longest track [December] tornado on record here in the Mid-South”, the Memphis workplace of the weather service stated.
Meteorologist Jason Holmes said eyewitnesses spotted the funnel and the agency has confirmed its presence.
Witnesses spotted the funnel outside the city about 5 p.m. on Friday.
Mr Shupiery said: “I figured I’d come down here with my hat”.
A 7-year-old boy died in Marshall County, Coroner James Anderson said.
But that didn’t stop some from spending their Christmas giving rather than receiving.
“It makes you thankful to be alive with your family”, he said.
Tornado watches remained in effect from southern MS to central Indiana.
In the Northeast, where warmer weather spared drivers the crippling delays wrought by winter storms, traffic was heavy, with more rain expected until Thursday in and around NY.
The threat of tornadoes eased as the line of storms moved east Thursday and brought heavy rain and thunderstorms to Atlanta and the Carolinas.
But the abnormally balmy temperatures had tragic consequences further south, where more than a dozen tornadoes were reported in six states. Two of the seven people killed in MS were from the Holly Springs area.
In Maury County, a 19-year-old woman and two 22-year-old men died in the storms. “More than 1,400 power outages have been reported as of Thursday morning, and weather-related debris forced numerous road closures in the affected counties”.
Another person was killed in Arkansas.
Storms and tornadoes killed at least seven people and left dozens injured when they ripped through large swathes of the southeastern United States on Wednesday, reports and officials said.
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FALKNER, Miss. (AP) – Barbara Perkins and her husband were hunkered down inside a closet when violent winds peeled the roof off their MS home.
