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Two persons killed by tornadoes that rip throughout central and southeast of U.S

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Strong storms caused a lot of damage in the middle and southeast of the US on Tuesday and Wednesday. They made big tornadoes, big hail, and two people died in Tennessee and North Carolina when trees fell on their cars.

The big storm in northeastern Tennessee had strong winds that knocked over power lines and trees. Sheriff Bob Brooks said a 22-year-old man was in a car that got hit by a tree.

On Wednesday, there was a very serious tornado warning for the southern part of Nashville. The towns of Spring Hill, Chapel Hill, and Eagleville were also in danger.

A tornado alert was given in Columbia, which is about 45 miles south of Nashville. According to Lynn Thompson, who helps run Maury County 911, people in Columbia got hurt and their homes got damaged. Thompson said to The Associated Press that he couldn’t give more information: “We have too much to do right now. ”

A big storm hit Gaston County in North Carolina, so the government declared a state of emergency on Wednesday evening. Emergency workers were clearing roads of fallen power lines and trees and were helping people, officials said. The New Hope Fire Department went to help when a tree fell on a car. Officials said that one person died in the car and another person was taken to the hospital.

Over 135,000 people did not have electricity in the state by Wednesday evening, according to PowerOutage. us

Tornadoes were spotted in Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio on Tuesday night, according to the US National Weather Service. The storms came one day after a deadly tornado hit a town in Oklahoma.

The National Weather Service said tornadoes hit several counties in western Ohio on Tuesday: five in Warren County and one each in Darke, Mercer, and Auglaize counties. The weather service is checking Franklin and Butler counties to see if tornadoes hit there too. A tornado hit Jefferson County, but experts will have to check the damage to figure out how strong it was, according to Jeff Craven, a weather expert in Pittsburgh.

On Wednesday, the crews looked at the damage from the big storms with hail and heavy rain. The storms also caused power outages for many utility customers.

In Michigan, a weather expert named Nathan Jeruzal said that tornadoes hit Kalamazoo, Cass, and Branch counties in the southwestern part of the state. The leader of the state or province. Gretchen Whitmer said there is a big problem in four counties that need help.

The area of Portage in Kalamazoo County was heavily impacted, with a FedEx building being torn apart and over twelve mobile homes being destroyed. Roughly 50 people were stuck inside the broken building because of fallen power lines.

Over twelve houses were ruined in a group of mobile homes in Pavilion Township, and 16 people were hurt, according to Kalamazoo County Sheriff Richard Fuller.

On Wednesday afternoon, Samantha Smith held a box as she left her mom’s damaged home in Pavilion Township, which is about 137 miles west of Detroit. The box had her grandmother’s remains inside. Being able to find the most treasured items gave Smith a rare feeling of relief during the terrible storm.

Her mom, dad, and brother got hurt in the storm but they made it through.

“I have thanked God so many times since this happened yesterday,” she said. “My children are doing well and are healthy. ” “We need to recover what we lost. ”

Travis Wycoff went out on Tuesday night after seeing on radar that a tornado had hit the Portage area. He helped an older couple out of their partly fallen home and saved a service dog from a house.

“Many people were running in the streets to find other people and their pets,” Wycoff said. “It was just very chaotic. ”

In southern Indiana, a tornado hit on Wednesday morning and damaged homes in a neighborhood near the city of Sellersburg. Sellersburg is about 12 miles north of Louisville, Kentucky.

The storm messed up 24 buildings, according to the Clark County Emergency Management Agency.

Candice Holmes, who lives in the Lewis & Clark neighborhood north of Sellersburg, said that she, her husband and son went to their bathroom for safety when they heard the storm coming and the wind suddenly got very strong.

“It was really frightening. ” Please simplify this text. “I’m happy that we’re still alive,” Holmes said to WDRB-TV.

Tornadoes were also found in Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh, in central Arkansas, and in northern West Virginia. The West Virginia tornado happened on Wednesday in eastern Ohio. It was the 11th tornado in the state this year, even though the state usually only sees an average of two tornadoes a year.

Large pieces of hail the size of baseballs fell on Wednesday in areas just southwest of St Louis, Missouri. There was heavy rain which caused sudden flooding and at least one person had to be rescued from the water near Sullivan, a town that was hit by a small tornado just two days ago. Large balls of ice also damaged things in the Kansas City area.

On Tuesday, there were big storms in the central United States after heavy rain, strong winds, hail, and tornadoes hit the area the day before. The Plains and Midwest have been hit hard by tornadoes this spring.

The whole week in the US will have a lot of storms. The Midwest and the South will have the worst weather for the rest of the week. This includes cities like Indianapolis, Memphis, Nashville, St Louis and Cincinnati, where over 21 million people live. It will be sunny during the weekend.

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