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series of severe storms - including tornadoes - touched down in three
southern states Tuesday, killing four people, damaging homes and
businesses, flipping cars, knocking down trees, and downing power lines.
Doyle Rice, USA TODAY
Several homes were severely damage, some destroyed, when a 500-yard wide tornado tore through the town of Amite, Louisiana.
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While snow fell in some Midwestern states Tuesday - nearly 2 feet in South Dakota's Black Hills - a strong storm system expected to drop rain along the East Coast and snow from Missouri to Michigan developed in Mississippi, Georgia and Louisiana, among other southern states. The severe storms in the South killed at least four people.
The worst damage appears to be from a twister that roared through southern Mississppi.
The roof was ripped off a day care center this afternoon as a tornado ripped through Sumrall, Miss., the Hattiesburg American said. All the children are safe.
In Marion County, some people are still trapped inside their homes near U.S. 98 and Mississippi 13, said Aaron Greer of Marion County Emergency Management. Trees and power lines also are down in the area.
Two other tornadoes have been reported so far today, one in southern Georgia and one in eastern Louisiana, the Storm Prediction Center said.
A tornado watch remains in effect in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, meaning conditions are ripe for tornadoes to form.
Cities such as New Orleans, Mobile and Tallahassee remain at greatest risk of severe storms.
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