Wednesday’s storm produced at least 15 tornadoes in six states, according to Dr. Greg Forbes of The Weather Channel, with most hitting northern Mississippi.
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A 7-year-old boy died in the MS community of Holly Springs when a storm picked up and tossed the auto he was riding in.
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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 neighbours on the same street – were confirmed dead and their homes destroyed.
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Emergency declarations were issued in MS and Tennessee, the two states hardest hit by severe weather on Wednesday that also complicated getaway plans for travellers looking to make the most of the long holiday weekend.
Phil Bryant said on Thursday that there were seven deaths in the state.
It warned that isolated severe thunderstorms will still be possible in southeastern USA states with “a more concentrated threat” across parts of Alabama and Georgia.
“It got to middle Tennessee and went “Ka-pow”, Flener said of the storm system.
Mulestor Johnson, 67, told the AP that a brutal storm tore his Holly Springs house from its foundation Wednesday. Portions of southeast Alabama received rainfall that totaled 10 inches or more.
Emergency officials in Tennessee anxious that powerful winds could turn holiday yard decorations into projectiles, the same way gusts can fling patio furniture in springtime storms, said Marty Clements, director of the Madison County Emergency Management Agency in Jackson, the state’s largest city between Memphis and Nashville.
He said: “The chimney is the only thing that saved us really”. Three were killed in Tennessee and one in Arkansas.
“There are some houses that were blown away”, said May, who runs the Como Inn.
Several roads and bridges were flooded, he said, and it was impossible to determine if they were still safe to drive on, he said.
The rain is expected to move out of Tennessee by the end of Thursday. “Sheet metal is wrapped around trees; there are overturned airplanes; a building is just destroyed”.
An 18-year-old woman, Michaela Remus, was killed in Pope County, Ark., after a tree fell on her home during high winds, KTHV-TV reported.
An 18-month-old toddler was also trapped in the house but was rescued by emergency responders, the sheriff’s office said. Much of the eastern half of the country will spend a Christmas Day with temperatures in the 70s. “A more marginal widely dispersed risk for severe storms exists from parts of the Mid-Atlantic region southwestward across the southern Appalachians to east Texas”.
The threat of severe weather just before Christmas is unusual, but not unprecedented, said Greg Carbin, a meteorologist at the national Storm Prediction Center.
Mississippi’s Interstate 55 was closed in both directions as the tornado approached, the state’s Highway Patrol said.
Strong storms blew threw Sharp County this morning.
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High temperatures were reported as far north as Saint Anicet in the Canadian province of Quebec, which hit 21C.
