Severe weather updates: 2 people are dead after tornado outbreak hits the South - ABC News

Two radical person died successful cardinal Alabama aft a tornado struck Montgomery County overnight, officials said. At slightest 29 tornadoes person touched down successful Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama.

Montgomery Fire Rescue saved 1 idiosyncratic and extricated 2 bodies from the Alabama home. Another idiosyncratic has been hospitalized, officials said.

Part of Patti Beeker's location is damaged arsenic a effect of terrible upwind successful the area, Nov. 30, 2022, successful Eutaw, Ala.

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The deadly tornado struck Montgomery County conscionable aft 3:30 a.m. connected Wednesday. Montgomery County officials said archetypal responders saved the lives of galore others.

Tornadoes were reported adjacent Bakers and Steens, Mississippi. In Vernon, Mississippi, hail the size of a 4th and Ping-Pong shot was reported. There were besides reports of structural harm crossed respective locations successful Mississippi.

Texas and Kentucky got hail the size of play balls.

People locomotion done an country of destroyed structures successful Flatwood, Ala., Nov. 30, 2022.

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Images from the affected areas amusement full homes reduced to rubble by the tornadoes.

As the tempest strategy moves east, much terrible upwind is imaginable for Florida’s Panhandle, confederate Alabama and Georgia. The tornado menace volition beryllium debased connected Wednesday; the biggest menace is damaging winds.

Cinder blocks from the Flatwood Community Center are strewn about, Nov. 30, 2022, successful Flatwood, Ala., pursuing a terrible storm.

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High upwind alerts person been issued for astir of the Northeast from Virginia to Maine, wherever winds could gust 40 to 60 mph. Behind this tempest system, colder aerial volition nutrient lake-effect snowfall from conscionable southbound of Buffalo to Watertown, New York, wherever locally 7 to 15 inches of snowfall is possible.

Strong thunderstorms are imaginable from the Florida Panhandle to the Carolinas. In addition, dense rainfall and gusty winds are expected from Washington, D.C., to Boston.

ABC News' Alexandra Faul and Melissa Griffin contributed to this report.