A tornado damaged homes and at least one church, and strong winds damaged student housing at a community college Tuesday in eastern Mississippi.įarther west, a powerful snowstorm buried parts of Colorado and Nebraska in more than a foot of snow on Tuesday before crawling into the Upper Midwest. Friends and neighbors work on the roof of the home of Debbie McCormick on Shelby Road near Newton, Miss., that received extensive damage after a storm Tuesday, Feb. In Cheatham County, near Nashville, officials said a driver had to be rescued Wednesday when his sport utility vehicle was swept into a flooded creek. In Georgia, an apartment building was evacuated before dawn Wednesday due to flooding near the town of Fort Oglethorpe, just south of Chattanooga, Tennessee, the weather service said, citing a report from an emergency manager in Catoosa County, Georgia. Public schools were closed Wednesday to survey damage from the weather. In west Tennessee, high winds damaged several homes and buildings at Crockett County High School, the National Weather Service said. The storm damaged homes, toppled trees and knocked out power, said Lauderdale County Sheriff Billy Sollie. Tuesday in eastern Newton and Lauderdale counties, largely rural areas in the eastern part of the state, said Greg Flynn, spokesman for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency. In Mississippi, a confirmed tornado was reported just before 3:30 p.m. More than a dozen homes were destroyed by a tornado that touched down in the town of McMullen on Tuesday evening, the National Weather Service said. The National Weather Service in Birmingham reported a "confirmed large and destructive tornado" on the ground in the same general area as the women's prison, about 45 miles west of Tuscaloosa. No employees or inmates were hurt, the statement said. Department of Justice said in a statement. In western Alabama, the administration building at the Federal Correctional Institution Aliceville was running on a generator Wednesday, a day after a tornado struck the low-security lockup housing about 1,850 inmates, the U.S. Most of it is going to have to be pretty much torn down," First Baptist Church worship pastor Stephen Ferrand told Begnaud.īegnaud reported that the timing of the tornado was key - had the tornado hit just 24 hours later, there would have been children in the church classroom in the direct path of the tornado. Every building has received substantial damage.
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