Two people were killed by the fall of trees and tens of thousands of people were left without power while serious storms crossed the South this weekend.
The storms lowered the trees and the power lines and brought strong precipitation, hailstones and gusts while crossing the region. Nearly 150,000 people in the southern Texas states in South Carolina were without electricity on Sunday morning, according to Powerouting.us.
The governor of Mississippi, Tate Reeves, said that a person had been killed in Lafayette County when a tree fell on a vehicle. Several tornado warnings were issued in northern Mississippi on Saturday.
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp said that a person was killed in Georgia on Saturday evening. A spokesperson for the Georgia Emergency Management said that the death had taken place in Banks County when a tree fell on a vehicle.
“Join us to pray for the relatives of a Georgian lost tragically this evening because of the violent storms,” ​​wrote Kemp on social networks.
The National Weather Service said that a confirmed EF-1 tornado had damaged several houses and injured a person on Friday in the city of Van Buren in the west of Arkansas.
Another violent cycle of time is expected to cross the south and south plains on Sunday evening and Monday. The highest risk of violent time is in the southwest of Oklahoma and northern Texas.
THE National Meteorological Service Said destructive gusts of wind up to 100 miles per hour, the giant hail up to five inches in diameter and some tornadoes are likely.
