- JEFF BUSBY PARK, Mississippi: A wave of thunderstorms with winds blowing near hurricane force is strafing the US South, killing at least 11 people from Arkansas to Alabama, including a father struck by a tree while protecting his daughter at a campsite.
The system laced with suspected tornadoes spread destruction Tuesday night and Wednesday from Texas to Georgia. An earlier flare-up of storms this week had already killed 10 people in Arkansas and one in Mississippi.
Forecasters warned that even worse weather could be on its way. Powerful storms raked Mississippi and Alabama Wednesday afternoon, with the system forecast to move into Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky by the night and the Carolinas by the next morning.