JACKSON, Miss. – Heavy rain prompted an apartment evacuation early Wednesday in northwest Georgia one day after storms spawned tornadoes in Mississippi and Alabama and dumped snow on places farther west.
The National Weather Service, citing a report from an emergency manager in Catoosa County, Georgia, says the apartments being evacuated before dawn Wednesday were near the town of Fort Oglethorpe, just south of Chattanooga, Tennessee. No serious injuries were reported in the flooding.
On Tuesday, tornadoes touched down in Mississippi and Alabama as thunderstorms swept through the region, while a powerful snowstorm buried parts of Colorado and Nebraska in more than a foot of snow before crawling into the Upper Midwest.
Mississippi Emergency Management Agency spokesman Greg Flynn says a confirmed tornado was reported just before 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in eastern Newton and Lauderdale counties.
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