WPBN: As the storm system proceeded east into Alabama early Sunday, multiple tornadoes that made landfall in Texas and Mississippi on Saturday damaged homes and flipped cars, leaving at least two dead and six injured.
Just before 4 a.m., the severe storm tracker maintained by the National Weather Service showed that the system was heading east through Alabama into Georgia.
In western Georgia and the northwest tip of Florida, which sits directly above the Gulf of Mexico, the agency issued severe thunder storm warnings with the potential for tornadoes.
According to Madison Polston of the Brazoria County Sheriff’s Office, four individuals were injured but not deemed critically ill, and one person passed away in the Liverpool region, which is south of Houston.
The county had “multiple touchdown points” between Alvin, Hillcrest Village, and Liverpool. According to Polston, officials were trying to ascertain the full amount of the damage, but they were aware of about ten homes that had been destroyed.
The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency reports that two individuals were hurt in Franklin County and one person died in Adams County.
Two tornadoes tore off the roofs of multiple structures in the Bude and Brandon areas, according to the National Weather Service.
The further east you go, the more severe these storms are likely to get this evening and overnight, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Josh Lichter.
There was damage from both tornadoes and straight-line winds in the Houston region, and it seemed like at least six tornadoes made landfall, though crews may find more when they go out to assess the damage, Litcher said.
According to the weather service, mobile homes in Katy and Porter Heights, north of Houston, were either damaged or completely destroyed, and a fire station’s doors were blown in.
According to the website FlightAware, the storms also caused departure delays at Houston’s two main airports, Hobby and Bush Intercontinental, of more than an hour on Saturday afternoon.
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According to Malary White, chief communications officer for the state’s Emergency Management Agency, approximately 71,000 utility customers in Mississippi were without power on Saturday, and that figure was predicted to increase.
According to electric utility tracking website PowerOutage.us, the number of customers without power in the state decreased from 93,000 at 1 a.m. to approximately 81,000 at 3:30 a.m. on Sunday.
On Saturday, there were no official damage reports from the disaster management agency. According to White, first responders’ main priorities were safety and making sure everyone was present.
“We do anticipate more thorough damage assessments starting in the early morning hours,” she stated.
In order to protect inhabitants from potentially destructive gusts of up to 60 mph (96.5 kph), the National Weather Service office in Birmingham, Alabama, issued severe thunderstorm warnings for numerous regions in the southern portion of the state for the night.
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