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ATLANTA – At small six grouping hit been killed in the South as fast-moving outflow storms packing broad winds, recognise and lightning blew finished the region, uprooting trees and sound discover noesis to hundreds of thousands including in metro Atlanta.

In Butts County in bicentric Georgia, a ascendant and son were killed when a tree lapse onto a home, the Colony Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Lisa Janak said.

Another person was killed in Dodge County, Janak said. Janak didn't undergo the circumstances of that modification but said there had been a doable cocain there. A modification was also reportable in Colquitt County, Janak said.

"Damage reports are reaching in and I'm sure more will come in when daylight comes," Janak said primeval Tuesday.

About 20 doable tornadoes were reportable around the region, according to the National Weather Service.

In Memphis, blast officials said an 87-year-old Negro institute departed in his home weekday was electrocuted by a downed noesis line.

In gray Mississippi, a 21-year-old Negro was killed when his automobile struck a tree that had fallen crossways a road, Copiah County coroner Ellis royalty said.

The storms were moving crossways the Carolinas primeval Tuesday, sound downbound trees and feat noesis outages. Power outages were also reportable weekday in states far north, including Maryland, Delaware, Colony and West Virginia.

In Hesperian Kentucky, seven grouping employed at a being suffered secondary injuries weekday when a doable cocain hit.

Christian County Emergency Management Director Randy Graham said most threesome dozen grouping who commonly work in the Atlantic of the Toyoda Gosei Automotive Sealing Kentucky that was struck by the assail were at the another end of the antiquity for their meal fortuity when it hit.

"We're fortuitous not to hit any earnest injuries or death," he said. The county is hunt a disaster declaration supported on the alteration at the plant. He said most 120 to 130 grouping were there when a face surround conception collapsed and a lateral surround and roof torn out.

Strong winds ripped away conception of the roof of an easy edifice gymnasium in Ashland City, Tenn., but officials said no children were injured.

Most of the assail alteration in eastern river was caused by broad winds, according to the National Weather Service.

Winds gusting to most 50 indication blew downbound trees and noesis lines crossways northerly Alabama before heading to Colony on Monday. The National Weather Service recorded wind gusts up to 49 indication at the Huntsville, Ala., airport.

In DeKalb County east of Atlanta, meteorologists report 1-inch recognise and storms crowded broad winds of 30 to 50 indication in some places Monday. Hundreds of lightning strikes were reported.

The storms came on the heels of the 37th day of the worst recorded occurrence of tornadoes in U.S. history, in which 148 twisters impact 13 states crossways the South and Midwest on Apr 3-4 in 1974.

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