14 dead after unusual December tornadoes hit US South

Not many people live in northern MS, but the storm managed to take a swipe at a number of the small communities there.

Tony Goodwin from Linden, Tennessee, said he was grateful to be alive. The statement describes the victims as a 19-year-old female and two 22-year-old males. The springlike storms packing strong winds killed two more in Tennessee. A storm system killed several people as it swept across the South, and officials are searching for mis…

One person was killed in Arkansas. Three homes were destroyed.

Meanwhile, McMullen says crews are still searching for 47-year-old Michael A. Nunnally, of Lamar.

More than a dozen tornadoes were reported in six states but MS, in the south, was hardest hit. Two were in Marshall County, and the other was in Tippah County.

Photos posted to social media showed cars covered by water in multiple counties and a washed-out road that resembled a waterfall in Macon County.

Mona Ables, 43, was driving home when the storm hit.

FlightAware, a website that tracks airline flights, showed 550 flights had been canceled nationwide with 4,276 delays by midday.

Carbin said travelers in Georgia, New York, Tennessee and OH were likely to experience some weather-related delays on Wednesday evening.

The worst appeared to be over, however forecasters at the National Weather Service warned of flash floods in the U.S. southeast.

The state’s emergency management director, Gary Rogers, told CNN affiliate WZTV that two other people are missing.

Dozens got injured, some seriously, said Greg Flynn, spokesman for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.

A tree blew over onto a house in Arkansas, killing an 18-year-old woman and trapping a 1-year-old child inside, authorities said.

There have been reports of at least 20 tornadoes across the south, of varying severity.

However, isolated severe thunderstorms were still possible from the Mid-Atlantic to the Gulf Coast, it said. “Gives you more of that Christmas feel”, said Daniel Flores, a concierge from the Bronx, his light jacket zipped open as he shopped in Manhattan with his three children.

High temperature records are tumbling across upstate NY as the early winter warmup continues across the region. Albany’s 58 degrees Thursday morning broke the previous record of 57 set on December 24, 1941.

Along Mississippi Highway 7 close to Johnson’s house, headlights from passing cars illuminated downed tree limbs, slabs of plasterboard and wooden beams that had been turned into projectiles. He said some of the injuries include amputations.

House-by-house searches are being conducted amid fears more casualties will be discovered.

At least six people have been killed across the country as fierce spring-like storms hit Wednesday.

In a festive red coat, Queen Elizabeth II led the royal family to a traditional Christmas Day church service Friday, but young Prince George and his baby sister Princess Charlotte stayed home amid the sprinkles of rain.

States from Louisiana to IL were under a tornado watch.

Daisy Johnson, 68, said she and her husband rushed along with other relatives to their storm shelter across the street from the house after they heard a twister was headed their way.

A fallen tree rests atop a pickup truck in Holly Springs, Miss.,…

A 7-year-old boy died in Holly Springs, Mississippi, when the storm picked up and tossed the vehicle he was riding in, officials said.