3 dead from severe weather, tornadoes in Tennessee, North Carolina

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The nation’s deadly severe weather outbreak continued Wednesday with severe storms from the Carolinas to the Midwest, causing deaths in two states.

Severe storms caused damage over 900 miles from Kansas to eastern North Carolina, resulting in 13 reports of tornadoes. The storms appeared to hit the country in groups, with Tennessee, southern Illinois and northern Alabama experiencing the most severe tornado impacts. There was also hundreds of hail and storm damage in other surrounding states.

Two tornado emergencies – the National Weather Service’s worst warnings – were issued in Maury, Marshall, Rutherford and Williamson counties in Tennessee and Dekalb County in Alabama. This comes after two additional tornado emergencies were reported in Oklahoma and Michigan earlier this week, representing the most tornado emergencies in a three-day period since March 31, 2023.

Additionally, 136 tornado warnings and 563 severe thunderstorm warnings were issued Wednesday.

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Nearly 240,000 power outages were reported across the Southeast as of Thursday morning, according to PowerOutage.us.

One person died in Claiborne County, Tennessee, after a tree fell on their car during a storm. A similar event occurred in Gaston County, North Carolina, west of Charlotte this afternoon, with one person killed and another injured when a tree fell on a car.

A third person died and four others were injured in Columbia, Tennessee, in Maury County after what the National Weather Service called a large tornado.

South of Nashville, in Rutherford County, a tornado emergency has been declared around Eagleville due to a confirmed tornado.

Meanwhile, in North Tennessee, a tornado is reported to have struck communities around Clarksville.

Damage was also reported at Russellville Intermediate School in Morristown, Tennessee, as a tornado-warned storm rolled across Hamblen County on Wednesday morning. District school officials said all students were safe and there were no injuries.

Significant damage was reported in Michigan as severe storms and tornadoes swept across the Midwest in the Ohio Valley

Severe weather moved into Alabama late Wednesday evening, causing damage in the Huntsville and Henagar areas. The town of Henagar was placed under a tornado state of emergency for Dekalb County and there were reports of significant damage.

On Thursday, severe storms will move south and east

On Thursday, the supercell threat will be highest in the afternoon and evening from Central Texas to the Ark-La-Tex region. Here, thunderstorms could produce very large hailstones, possibly up to the size of baseballs. Damaging winds and a few tornadoes are also possible.

A major severe weather risk extends from East Texas into the lower Mississippi Valley and the Southeast, where large hail and damaging wind gusts are the primary threat, along with the possibility of a few tornadoes.

ATLANTA UNDER TORNADO NOTE ALMOST 98 MILLION WILL BE THREATENED BY SEVERE STORMS FROM TEXAS TO THE EAST COAST ON THURSDAY

Further flooding is also expected, particularly in eastern parts of Texas, where catastrophic flooding has already occurred. Between 2 and 3 inches of additional rain is expected in this region.