The tornado, which borders parts of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi on Wednesday, will extend southward on Thursday and begin moving toward Sliver in Carolinas, Georgia and Virginia, officials have warned.
According to the National Weather Service, hurricanes, tornadoes and hail are likely to hit east-central Georgia, northeast South Carolina, South North Carolina and extreme southeast Virginia.
“All serious hazards are possible,” the weather service said. Twenty-six million people were at risk.
Heavy storms were also possible in the southern and central Appalachians in the eastern Gulf Coast.
East North Carolina and South Carolina have the highest risk on Thursday, said NBC News meteorologist Bill Kearins.
“I doubt we’ll have as many tornadoes today as we did yesterday, but it takes a city or a city to disaster.”
In a consultation, Weather Service encouraged people today to “review your intense weather safety procedures for the possibility of dangerous weather. Floor. “
There were no storm warnings in the Metro Atlanta area early Thursday but strong lightning, heavy rain and strong gusts of 40-50 mph were passing through the area.
Morehouse c College Ledge in Atlanta Tweeted That he was delaying the opening of his campus until 11 a.m. and that faculty and staff should not arrive by that time. All the classes before that were to be held virtually, he said.
In South Carolina, the state Senate president on Thursday warned senators to stay in the state House due to severe weather fears, while urging employees to work remotely for their safety. House Speaker Jay Lucas said the chamber will meet for less than an hour on Thursday.
“If you’re in a situation where it’s dangerous to come, I’ll tell you not to come,” Lucas said. “If you can come, give us a quorum and do what we need to do. We’ll hurry from here.”
Almost all of South Carolina is at moderate risk of severe hurricanes. Due to the forecast, a number of school systems in the state close individual classes on Thursday and students and teachers can be found online.
Nearly two dozen tornadoes damaged homes and uprooted trees in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi on Wednesday.
Large vaccination clinics where hundreds of people could get shots in an hour without leaving their vehicles were canceled in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. In Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, state employees were warned to head to the stairs if they heard a weather storm. Near Birmingham, labor organizers canceled an outdoor event at the Amazon facility where workers are voting on union representations.
No casualties were reported, while a mother and child in Clark County, Alabama, sustained minor injuries, said Roy Wyatt, director of the Emergency Management Agency. Their home was completely destroyed and three others were damaged.
A woman in Lacan, Alabama, whose vehicle was submerged in floodwaters, was hit by a tree Wednesday night, according to officials there.
“While the damage to trees and structures seems fairly extensive, I have not received any reports of casualties,” said Alabama Governor KK Iway. “I pray that the assessment continues as it is. Overall, we are very grateful, because it could get worse.”
Carins echoed that it was a “small miracle that we had yesterday’s tornado outbreak, with only a few injuries.”
While any tornado could hit a city, “we were lucky, most of them hit farmland,” he said.
