NWS will also survey that area. More than 50,000 of those outages occurred in Upstate South Carolina where tornado watches and warnings hit in the early morning hours.The National Weather Service at Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport confirmed that a tornado passed through Seneca. Stinson said the death toll could rise as officials study more storm damage. A tornado watch has been issued for parts of South Carolina until 9 p.m., according to the National Weather Service in Columbia. Eleven people were killed in Mississippi, and six more died in northwest Georgia. "I know these are some tough times and I'm just asking everyone to stay prayed up," Espy said.There were no immediate reports of serious injuries in Louisiana, even though the storm damaged between 200 and 300 homes in and around the city of Monroe, Mayor Jamie Mayo, In Alabama, lightning struck the Shoals Creek Baptist Church in Priceville, damaging the roof and steeple, Morgan County Emergency Management Agency Eddie Hicks told AL.com.Be in the know. In Richland, a tree collapsed the roof of a home. As a family walks out of a destroyed home, the video showed the front of the house had been ripped away and the living room and dining room were exposed to the rain.Ron Phillips, director of the airport, said all flights were canceled until further notice. In Louisiana, winds ripped apart a metal airplane hangar.The National Weather Service tallied hundreds of reports of trees down across the region, including many that punctured roofs and downed power lines. The city of Seneca set a Tuesday night curfew for areas affected by storms.
One tornado remained on the ground from Anderson County to York County; the other, which as been named "The Horrell Hill Tornado", was the more destructive of the two. "We fared pretty good," Haynes said. At least five homes were destroyed in Walthall County and other injuries were reported.The Lawrence County victims were Sheriff's Deputy Robert Ainsworth and his wife, Paula.
As of Friday evening, storm investigators confirmed at least 8 tornadoes touchdowned in the North Carolina and South Carolina Thursday. In a release, NWS said the surveys will also likely include damage in some areas of northeast Georgia as well as other locations in Oconee, Pickens and Northern Greenville counties.Final assessments of the storm and results of the surveys are expected by 5 p.m. Monday. "We got nothing like the damage to the west. Chuck Johnson told The Weather Channel. The fatalities were in two mobile home parks near Chatsworth, Georgia, Dwayne Bain, director of the Murray County Emergency Management Agency and fire chief, told the Daily Citizen-News. Meteorologists warned the mid-Atlantic states to prepare for potential tornadoes, wind and hail on Monday.In Georgia, the Murray County Fire Department said a tornado killed five people and injured several others in Chatsworth, Mississippi's death toll rose to 11 early Monday, the In South Carolina, a person was found dead in a collapsed building near Seneca as the apparent tornado struck the city around 3:30 a.m. Monday, Oconee County Emergency Management Director Scott Krein said. As the investigation continues, Rowley noted that preliminary information indicates this was an unusual weather event Usually, tornadoes touch down quickly in South Carolina, Rowley said. The confirmation was made by radar images of signature damage. Two people were missing. The most severe was an EF3 tornado in Oconee. In Hampton County, tornadoes tore through a quiet South Carolina community, killing five, most of whom were from the same family. A downed tree lay in roughly every other yard.In front of Kirk Hunter’s house, about half the branches on a small tree had snapped, and he found a camper he recently bought spun 90 degrees from where he left it.He sat on the porch of his house on Westchester Road with his daughter April Hunter, 37, waving to neighbors as they passed by Monday morning.“And you guys thought coronavirus was bad,” April yelled to MJ and Malaysia Wideman, two of the neighborhood kids, as they walked the house.In Pendleton, large sections of South Mechanic Street and East Queen Street are closed because of fallen trees.