At least four people have died and more than 50 million residents in states from Texas to Missouri and North Carolina are under alert this Thursday for storms and tornadoes.
The National Weather Service (NWS) reported that strong storms and threats of excessive rain remain today from the southern Plains, in the center of the country, to the southeast, and will continue their course east through Friday. .
“On Thursday, a front that extends from the Atlantic coast westward into the Ohio River Valley and southwestward into the High Plains will move toward the Atlantic coast on Friday and remain over Florida on Saturday,” the NWS said.
The sheriff of Clairborne County, Tennessee, Bob Books, reported the death of a 22-year-old man who was inside a vehicle crushed by a falling tree.
On the other hand, the mayor of Columbia, Tennessee, Chaz Molder, confirmed in a statement the death of a person during a storm but did not give more details.
New Hope Fire Rescue, North Carolina, responded to a call about a tree fell on a car and found one person dead, and another injured who was taken to a hospital.
A fourth person was killed Monday when a tornado touched down in the eastern Oklahoma town of Barnsdall.
Forecasters have confirmed reports of more than 60 tornadoes since Monday in Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri and Kansas.
Authorities have issued warnings of possible tornadoes in at least 10 states from Texas to Kentucky, a swath of territory that includes cities such as Dallas and Waco in Texas; Springfield in Missouri; Nashville and Knoxville in Tennessee, and Huntsville in Alabama.
Meteorologist Jude Redfield of television station WDRB in Louisville, Kentucky, reported that rainfall in parts of that state reached 125 millimeters and that there were flood emergencies in Nashville where rainfall reached 250 millimeters.
A cold front that has parked in southern Arkansas brought forecasts of new storms with damaging winds and hailand meteorologists indicated that there could be conditions for a tornado like the one that hit the city of Hot Springs on Wednesday.
According to the Poweroutage.us platform this morning there were more than 50,000 subscribers without electricity supply in Tennessee and South Carolina, and more than 10,000 without electricity in Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina.
With information from EFE
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