Tornadoes reported as storms cause flooding and damage across the South - NBC News

Tornado warnings for Alabama and Mississippi continued into the aboriginal hours of Wednesday amid reports of twisters successful the portion overnight that appeared to permission a way of destruction. 

Residents successful areas crossed Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama were forced to instrumentality screen precocious Tuesday arsenic tornado sirens sounded amid a tempest strategy that threatened to enactment millions of radical astatine risk. 

Tornado warnings were issued Tuesday day and continued overnight arsenic dense thunderstorms passed from eastbound Texas to Georgia, reaching arsenic acold northbound arsenic Indiana.

Lightning streaks crossed the entity successful Jackson, Miss., connected Tuesday evening.Rogelio V. Solis / AP

The National Weather Service confirmed tornadoes had deed the crushed successful Mississippi connected Tuesday, portion tornadoes were besides confirmed by radar successful Alabama, NWS Birmingham said.

In one video shared connected Twitter by meteorologist Craig Ceecee, residents could beryllium seen sitting wrong a tornado structure successful Starkville, Mississippi, connected Tuesday night. 

"The information that determination were SO MANY tornadoes successful this country contiguous makes maine thankful everything is good here. To deliberation what could person been," Ceecee said successful a tweet.

A fig of areas reported harm to homes and neighborhoods, portion the Caldwell Parish Sheriff’s Office successful Louisiana confirmed that astatine slightest 2 radical were injured successful transportation with terrible weather. The grade of their injuries was not instantly clear. The sheriff’s bureau said trees had besides been downed, portion immoderate homes successful the country were damaged. 

Video and photos shared connected societal media appeared to amusement immoderate of the destruction, with buildings appearing to beryllium severely damaged, portion 1 video out of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, showed a fig of objects, including a chair, flying distant successful a storm.

Storm harm successful Lowndes County, Miss., connected Wednesday. LSM

In an update shared Wednesday conscionable earlier 2 a.m. ET, the National Weather Service warned that thunderstorms "capable of producing scattered damaging winds and a tornado oregon two" would beryllium imaginable crossed parts of the Southeast successful the morning.

A enactment of beardown to terrible thunderstorms was expected to rapidly determination southeastward crossed confederate Alabama, the Florida Panhandle and central/southern Georgia done midday Wednesday, it said.

Forecasters had antecedently warned that dense rainfall and hail the size of tennis balls were imaginable successful the terrible upwind expected to proceed into Wednesday.

Meanwhile, dense snowfall impacted postulation successful immoderate parts of the Upper Midwest precocious Tuesday.

Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport tweeted Tuesday day that its runways had been closed owed to accelerated snowfall rates and reduced visibility.

At slightest 378 flights within, into, oregon retired of the U.S. were delayed arsenic of aboriginal Wednesday morning, portion astatine slightest 92 flights were cancelled, according to online formation tracker FlightAware. It was not instantly wide whether those cancellations were related to the weather.