Tornadoes and storms in the southern United States claim four lives
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A powerful weather system caused tornadoes in Texas and Mississippi and heavy rains in the Carolinas. Four people were killed and dozens of homes and infrastructure were damaged.
Four people were killed in three southern US states over the weekend after a severe weather system moved through the region, causing tornadoes in Texas and Mississippi and heavy rains in the Carolinas, UNN reports, citing The New York Times.
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In Iredell County, North Carolina, north of Charlotte, a man was killed Sunday morning when a tree fell on his pickup truck as he was driving in a rainstorm, the North Carolina State Highway Patrol said.
On Saturday, three people were killed and several others injured when the same storm system sparked tornadoes in southeast Texas and severe storms in Mississippi, authorities said.
Tornadoes touched down several times on Saturday afternoon in Brazoria County, Texas, south of Houston, said Madison Polston, a spokeswoman for the Brazoria County Sheriff's Office. She added that more than a dozen homes, several businesses and an elementary school were damaged.
The 48-year-old woman's body was found near her home in Liverpool, Texas, on Saturday. Preliminary reports indicated that her death was storm-related, Madison said.
All of the injured on Sunday were in non-critical condition, and more injuries are not expected.
"We rarely have tornadoes in Brazoria County," Polston said on Saturday. - "If we do, damage of this magnitude or injuries are also very rare.
Later on Saturday, two people were killed and several injured as a result of severe weather in Mississippi, Governor Tate Reeves said on social media. One person died in Adams County and another in Lowndes County. Six weather-related injuries were reported in Franklin, Simpson and Wayne counties, he said.
Preliminary reports indicate that there were at least five tornadoes in Mississippi on Saturday, and teams are surveying damaged areas to investigate, according to Logan Poole, a meteorologist at the Jackson office of the Weather Center.
"This number will almost certainly increase," he said.
In Texas, there have been reports of severe structural damage due to a possible tornado in Montgomery County, north of Houston, according to the Montgomery County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. According to the service, damage from a possible tornado at the East County Fire Station in Montgomery County resulted in minor injuries.
Tornado-producing storms are rare in the Southeast at this time of year, said Christopher Rainer, a meteorologist with the Weather Center in Jackson, Mississippi, on Sunday.
"We don't have many outbreaks like this, at least here in the Southeast, at least not in December," he said.
