Deadly tornadoes unleash ‘total destruction’ in southern Georgia

The damaging tornadoes which struck Georgia came one day after a tornado tore through Hattiesburg, Mississippi, claiming the lives of four people.

Georgia Governor Nathan Deal has also declared a State of Emergency for seven counties in the state, GEMA said. Petal, MS – There is widespread damage across Petal and northeast Forrest County from the tornado.

The same storm system that hit South Florida proved even more destructive and deadly in Georgia and Mississippi.

About 20 homes were levelled in the park near Adel, south Georgia, before dawn on Sunday.

Chuck Stafford was watching the Atlanta Falcons rout the Green Bay Packers for the NFC title when bad weather suddenly began to pound his mobile home in southern Georgia.

“We have the potential for a pretty significant weather outbreak over much of the state”, Garcia said.

“I want to start off by telling you I just spoke with Gov”.

Numerous tornado deaths Saturday and Sunday occurred in a situation meteorologists fear most – tornadoes that develop overnight or early in the morning when most are asleep.

The process is underway to get federal aid for victims of the storms that caused at least $100 million of insured damage. In southeast Georgia, there is uncommon “high risk” notification of serious weather, with these areas perhaps will be encountering more stronger and longer track of tornadoes. “So we’ll be helping out the state of Georgia“. Purvis said the park had about 40 mobile homes, and roughly half were destroyed.

Finally, numerous deaths this past weekend occurred in mobile homes.

Downed trees rest on a shed and vehicle belonging to Mike Herington damaged near Baxley, Ga., early Sunday. Fortunately no lives were lost in our coverage area, however, that was not the case further south where 15 people died during Sunday’s storms in Georgia.

More storms and tornados are expected in northern Florida and southern Georgia, the National Weather Service said. It was so big parts of it threatened the Carolinas and north Florida.

While the National Weather Service has crews out surveying the damage and evaluating the strength of each of the tornadoes, whether they were or were not is not a question.

The storm-ravaged southeast was recovering Monday, while other parts of the nation dealt with their own weather-related woes.

President Donald Trump said Sunday he had spoken with Georgia Governor Nathan Deal and “expressed our honest condolences for the lives taken”.

In Alabama, about 29,000 power outages were reported as of Sunday afternoon (local time), Alabama Power tweeted.

“It looks like it could be a pretty nasty night”, said meteorologist Robert Garcia, speaking in a online briefing at mid-morning Sunday.