The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency is assessing damage from overnight storms, noting more than 49,000 customers have no power in the central part of the state.
on Sunday night, and more than 50 million across the Southeast face the threat of more severe weather, including tornadoes, on Monday.
Now, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency is assessing damage from overnight storms, the agency said, noting more than 49,000 customers have no power in the central part of the state. They are among nearly a half million from Texas and Oklahoma to Tennessee who remain in the dark amid record-breaking heat after several rounds of storms last week.
A shelter “for all those displaced from the recent destruction of tornado activity” was set to open Monday morning, the Jasper County Sheriff’s Department said in apost. South Central Regional Medical Center in Laurel received 20 storm victims from the Louin area, including one who died, spokesperson Becky Collins told CNN Monday. The other patients are stable, she added, and most have been discharged from the hospital.Ruins remain Monday after overnight storms in Louin, Mississippi.
On Monday, the threat of excessive rainfall moves eastward to the southeastern parts of the country, bringing the threat of thunderstorms and flooding over parts of the Southeast, southern mid-Atlantic and Southern Appalachians.
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