High winds, hail, heavy rain and tornadoes battered Southern states from Alabama to North Carolina Wednesday and Thursday morning, leaving three people dead and hundreds of properties with heavy damage.
USA Today, CNN and other news outlets reported that the strongest storms hit central and northeast Tennessee and into North Carolina. In Claiborne County, Tennessee, a 22-year-old man was killed when a tree fell on his vehicle. Near Nashville, another person was killed.
In Gaston County, North Carolina, near Charlotte, a tree fell on a car, killing one person and injuring another. Kentucky also saw hailstorms and possible tornadoes.
Bloomberg news reported that up to 22 million people, from Dallas to Atlanta, in coming days could face another round of severe thunderstorms, bringing downpours, hail and possibly tornadoes.
For the last week, the central and Southern parts of the country have been battered by ferocious storms and flooding that all got their start from a Pacific system that dumped heavy snow across parts of California and the West over the weekend, said Brian Hurley, a senior branch forecaster at the US Weather Prediction Center.
Since then, the Great Plains, Midwest and South have been pounded by a deadly outbreak of heavy rains, high winds and tornadoes that have delayed air travel and knocked out power.
Photo: The same massive storm system that hit the South also a damaged FedEx facility in Portage, Michigan. (Brad Devereaux/Kalamazoo Gazette via AP)
Topics Catastrophe Natural Disasters Windstorm North Carolina Tennessee
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