Info Magzine: 100 million in the path of severe weather and possible tornadoes

Severe weather — together with a twister in the Atlanta space — continued to roar throughout the storm-battered South late Monday, a day after a number of twisters have been reported in Mississippi.

In all, greater than 100 million folks from New Mexico to Delaware have been in danger of some type of severe weather Monday afternoon and night, the Storm Prediction Center mentioned.

More severe storms have been anticipated throughout the Southeast on Tuesday, forecasters warned. States at biggest threat included a lot of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee, the Prediction Center mentioned.

Storm hazards Tuesday will embody hail, flooding downpours, tornadoes and damaging, straight-line wind gusts of as much as 75 mph, in response to AccuWeather.

Monday morning, a twister warning had been issued for parts of the Atlanta metro space, nevertheless it expired after the storm moved by the area.

A confirmed EF-1 twister roared by the Atlanta space, the National Weather Service mentioned, in response to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It introduced down timber throughout the space and killed one man in Douglasville, Georgia, when a falling tree introduced energy strains down onto his automobile, firefighters mentioned.

And in central Georgia, 55-year-old Carla Harris was killed after a tree fell onto her Bonaire dwelling, Houston County emergency officers mentioned.

In West Virginia, Jefferson County communications supervisor James Hayden mentioned one particular person was injured when a possible twister touched down at a lumber firm Monday night. The damage was minor, and the particular person was handled at the scene, he mentioned. An exterior lumber shed collapsed, Hayden mentioned.

A twister watch remained in impact Monday afternoon for parts of Alabama and Georgia together with components of each South and North Carolina. “Severe thunderstorms, including isolated tornadoes, can occur in the swath from central Alabama through central and northern Georgia, middle and upstate South Carolina and part of North Carolina into Monday evening,” AccuWeather meteorologist Alex Sosnowski mentioned.

A separate twister watch was additionally in impact throughout Texas and Oklahoma late Monday night.

A twister warning had been issued for components of the Charlotte, North Carolina, metro space Monday afternoon, nevertheless it expired after the storm risk handed, the National Weather Service mentioned.

Photos retweeted by the National Weather Service in Memphis confirmed a number of downed timber and energy strains. Tupelo Middle School sustained some injury, in addition to homes and companies.

There have been a number of studies of injury to houses on Elvis Presley Drive, simply down the road from the dwelling the place the famed singer was born.

In the southern Kentucky city of Tompkinsville, a severe storm Monday morning broken an estimated 30 houses and knocked down timber and energy strains.

The weather service additionally mentioned that ongoing severe thunderstorms and heavy rains could convey damaging gusts, massive hail, a couple of tornadoes and flash flooding throughout components of the southern Plains into the center Mississippi and decrease Ohio Valleys all through the day and night on Monday.

Larger metro areas resembling Little Rock, Arkansas; St. Louis and Indianapolis may very well be in the crosshairs of these harmful thunderstorms, AccuWeather mentioned.

On Sunday afternoon and into the nighttime hours, a line of severe storms rolled by Mississippi. Late in the day, a “tornado emergency” was declared for Tupelo and surrounding areas.

“Damage has been reported in the City of Tupelo,” the mayor’s workplace mentioned in a Facebook put up simply earlier than 11 p.m. “Emergency crews are currently assessing the degree of damage. Please do not get out and drive.”

‘I opened the door I noticed timber flying’

The odor of pine is thick on Walker Road simply north of Terry, Mississippi.

Residents imagine a twister ripped by the rural group Sunday night time, snapping timber in half and uprooting others, in response to a report from the National Weather Service.

Tyler and Taylor McPhail weren’t dwelling as the storm entrance descended at about 7:45 p.m. and rapidly elevated in depth.

The robust winds from the storm uprooted an oak tree in the entrance yard and blew it atop their single-story dwelling, smashing by the roof of their front room.

It was the first main storm the two have skilled in their dwelling since they moved in 5 years in the past.

“We’re just pretty fortunate we weren’t home,” Tyler mentioned.

About a mile up the highway from the McPhail family, Claude Jackson was maintaining with the weather on his TV Sunday night when he heard what he first thought was hail. He walked to his entrance door and rapidly realized his dwelling was being pelted by particles caught up in the robust winds.

“When I opened the door, I saw trees flying,” he mentioned.

Monday morning, he was assessing the injury. Part of his roof had been ripped off, leaving a transparent view of the sky from a bed room. Tree branches littered the entrance yard.

News outlets also reported tornadoes close to central Mississippi earlier in the day. The weather service in Jackson, Mississippi, shared a number of pictures of funnel clouds throughout completely different components of the state.

In Yazoo County, Emergency Management Director Jack Willingham mentioned injury round the county was intensive, however sporadic.

“It was like (the storm) was kind of hopping,” he mentioned.

Willingham mentioned about 30 constructions have been broken and no less than 10 houses have been utterly destroyed by a suspected twister that got here by the county. Three cell houses have been additionally flipped over, together with one who nonetheless had a resident inside. The boy, who was not recognized, wasn’t injured, Willingham mentioned

‘Elevated fireplace weather risk’

In the western half of the nation, a storm in Colorado continued to convey heavy snow to the central Rockies. Up to a foot of snow was forecast to build up by Monday night time, the weather service mentioned, and winter storm warnings and winter weather advisories have been in impact throughout northern and central Colorado.

And in California, temperatures 10 to fifteen levels larger than common may convey a risk of wildfires.

“The combination of warm temperatures, low relative humidity, expanding drought conditions and gusty winds could produce an elevated fire weather threat,” the weather service mentioned.

Contributing: Elinor Aspegren and Jorge Ortiz, USA TODAY; Justin Vicory and Keisha Rowe, Mississippi Clarion-Ledger; The Associated Press