But he said any reports of tornado-like damage in the region will be treated as if it is a tornado. Dozens of homes were damaged or destroyed. There were 10 water rescues in Monroe County as a result of floodwaters.
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Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant said he issued a declaration of disaster.
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A tornado has struck Birmingham, Alabama, damaging houses, uprooting trees and injuring at least three people in the state’s largest city, law enforcement and weather officials said. The springlike storms continued east on Thursday, dumping torrents that flooded roads in Alabama and caused a mudslide in the Georgia mountains.
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A civil order was issued telling drivers to stay off the roads until 4 a.m. Saturday, the National Weather Service said.
Holmes said reports of tornado activity in Bibb County, also southwest of Birmingham, have not been confirmed.
Unseasonably warm weather on Wednesday helped spawn twisters from Arkansas to MI.
Flynn says search crews are looking for others who are missing.
Alabama Power Co. says about 3,500 homes and businesses are without power, most in the Mobile area and southeastern Alabama, where forecasters say torrential rain was falling at a rate of 5 inches an hour.
“We’re just there to salvage what we can salvage”, he said.
‘It makes you thankful to be alive with your family, ‘ he said. When the tornado warning came up on her iPad, Green said she ran to a closet.
Residents of northern MS and across the Southeast were beginning to take stock after fierce storms that killed at least six across the region whipped through.
The agency says this increases the number of deaths in the state to eight, and the number of missing persons to two.
Dozens of people were injured in earlier storms, some seriously, said Greg Flynn, spokesman for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.
The startled man inside couldn’t open the door, which appeared to be blocked, Ables said. Trees rested atop several trucks on his property, and slabs of brick walls were strewn throughout his yard.
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Among the dead was a 7-year-old boy in Holly Springs, Mississippi, according to Mayor Kelvin Buck.
