Storms hit the South, causing death and damage

The tornado threat in the Southeast will be mainly over by about 8 p.m. Wednesday as the storm system moves on, he said.

Police are reporting storm damage in Sussex County in southeastern Virginia. Authorities were still looking for people possibly trapped under the debris, Martin said. The majority of the damage from Tuesday night occurred in the Louisiana towns of Convent and Paincourtville, Lamar County in MS and Pensacola, Florida. States of Emergency were declared in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, according to The Weather Channel.

The National Weather Service retweeted photos of caved-in units and rubble.

The storm ripped through the small town in the early afternoon, damaging several buildings.

The bus driver suffered minor injuries in the accident Tuesday morning, Houston Independent School District spokeswoman Lila Hollin said.

St. James officials have said numerous residents in the park were contractors working on chemical plants in the Mississippi River corridor.

Wreckage of the Sugar Hill RV Park is scattered following a storm in Convent, La., Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016.

Severe storms have roared across the Gulf Coast, killing three people, spawning tornadoes, ripping up homes and plowing swaths through communities.

In Florida, apartment complexes demolished.

Winds ripped off the top floors of two of the two-story buildings.

In Kenner, cars were reported damaged at a parking lot near the airport.

Angela Barrows is with the management company that owns the complex. A suspected tornado ripped through a Louisiana recreational v… Three people were killed and dozens of people were injured.

The warning was issued Wednesday afternoon after a tornado watch was issued for central and southeastern Virginia.

“The last place you want to be is outside or in a vehicle on the road”, Krautmann said.

Harris got out of his vehicle to see if he could help, and was stunned by the damage and realized it was from a storm.

The storm spawned at least one confirmed tornado in Waverly, where two men and a 2-year-old child were killed.

The storm system posed a continuing tornado threat as it swept east through the night across MS and into Alabama, said Mike Efferson, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in New Orleans.

Unlike in many parts of the country there is no “tornado season” here as the moisture and heat allow for storms to form during any month.

Forecaster Jaret Rogers said some of the larger metro areas included the North Carolina cities of Raleigh and Wake Forest.

Forecasters with the National Weather Service had to take cover Tuesday in a shelter in Slidell, Louisiana, because a tornado was nearby.

Just north of Oxford, North Carolina, near the Virginia border, high winds damaged several houses, one of them blown “completely apart”, Granville County Sheriff Brindell Wilkins said, adding that power outages were widespread.

Wednesday morning, Martin said an all-night search of the RV park found no additional injuries or fatalities.

When asked what was going on when he arrived at the scene he said: “It was chaos for the first hour”.

The Weather Service says thunderstorm wind gusts could be on the upper end of what is typically experienced in the area – with wind gusts of 70 to as much as 100 miles per hour that could produce damage similar to a tornado.

Apartment resident Milan Smith told the Pensacola News Journal (http://on.pnj.com/1XMegZY) that he heard the storm approaching and ran to the bathroom.

At least 30 structures were also damaged after dark in Essex County and Tappahannock, according to Geller, with 25 reported injuries.