Meteorologist Steve Miller said the service has had many reports of property damage and people injured in storms Tuesday night.
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At least 30 injuries were reported at the Sugar Hill RV Park in Convent, Louisiana, about 50 miles west of New Orleans.
Timothy Williams, whose trailer two doors down from Turner’s was destroyed, said the woman was Turner’s girlfriend and Springfield’s sister. Twenty-seven tornadoes were reported in five states in just 24 hours.
The majority of the damage and deaths were concentrated in the Louisiana towns of Convent and Paincourtville, Lamar County in MS and Pensacola, Florida.
Authorities are investigating the possibility that high winds caused a vacant three-story building in the Bronx to collapse.
Aerial images of the park showed smashed cars, overturned RVs and twisted wreckage amid the dozens of empty lots.
The rough weather ripped through Pensacola on Tuesday evening and Scott toured the affected areas on Wednesday morning.
Angela Barrows is with the management company that owns the complex. They escaped jolted, but unhurt.
A possible tornado destroyed 24 units and damaged six others at the Moorings Apartments in Pensacola, Fla., Escambia County officials said. Dozens of other people were injured.
Meteorologist Mike Rusnak says they’re looking for trees snapped like twigs, the track of a storm and what type of damage buildings sustained.
A powerful storm system on Wednesday hit the US east coast after striking Gulf states on Tuesday, killing at least three people in Virginia and causing mass power outages across the region.
Violent thunderstorms and damaging winds in the Carolinas were expected to intensify as they moved eastward on Wednesday, with the risk for tornadoes expanding into the mid-Atlantic states.
Forecaster Jaret Rogers said some of the larger metro areas included the North Carolina cities of Raleigh and Wake Forest.
A warning means severe weather is imminent based on specific criteria and existing conditions, according to the National Weather Service.
Two people were killed in Louisiana on Tuesday when a tornado ripped through an RV park in Convent, Louisiana.
James Parish Sheriff Willy Martin said a trailer park was demolished after a reported tornado struck the area.
Another man was killed near Appomattox, and Mr McAuliffe said the storm may have claimed another unconfirmed victim in the state. “When people say that government doesn’t help, this proves them wrong”. Then he heard what sounded like a freight train.
School books, every bit of clothing and even what little cash the family had were blown away, he said.
He said the rain became a downpour with bigger than normal drops, and cars started pulling over to the side of the road.
Robbie Harvey, who went to search the apartment block, said he was “surprised nobody is dead”.
The storms dumped several inches of rain on Georgia, where forecasters had issued a flash flood watch ahead of the storm. The northern part of Georgia was also under a wind advisory.
Police are reporting storm damage in Sussex County in southeastern Virginia from a system that has ravaged the South. The National Weather Service said radar indicated a possible tornado at the scene, where a mobile home was destroyed.
Storm systems have brought severe weather to the East Coast and the Midwest. Other EF-2 tornadoes were confirmed in Livingston, Paincourtville, and the one in LaPlace, which destroyed or badly damaged at least 200 homes in several subdivisions.
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“I’ve lived here all of my 51 years, and I’ve never seen this much devastation”, Stanley Langford said. Teams will be sent out in the morning to document the damage and rate the tornadoes, he said.
