艾米丽·瓦格斯特·佩特斯（Emily Wagster Pettus）和乔纳森·马蒂斯（Jonathan Mattise）美联社
一系列严重的风暴，挤满了孤立的龙卷风和大风，在南部深处撕裂，倒下树木和电力线，并在庞大的天气前线越过几个州竞争，使房屋和企业受损。
At least two confirmed tornadoes injured several people Wednesday, damaged homes and businesses and downed power lines in Mississippi and Tennessee after earlier storm damage in Arkansas, Missouri and Texas.
关于185,000 customers were without electricity Thursday morning in the wake of the storm along a band of states: Mississippi and Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio and Michigan, according to poweroutage.us, which tracks utilities.
The worst of the weather Thursday morning appeared to be at the southern end of the storm front, which was expected to bring heavy rain and high winds all along the U.S. East Coast later in the day. Much of the Florida Panhandle was under a tornado watch, according to the National Weather Service in Tallahassee.
当局说，截至周四初，暴风雨尚无死亡。但是田纳西州杰克逊地区据报道，龙卷风警告实际上是有效的。麦迪逊县紧急管理总监杰森·摩尔（Jason Moore）说，杰克逊 - 麦迪逊县综合医院和麦迪逊县警长办公室附近的一家疗养院发生了“重大损害”。
In Nashville, Tennessee, paneling fell five stories from the side of a downtown hotel Wednesday evening and onto a roof of a building below. The fire department warned the debris could become airborne as high winds continued, and some hotel guests were moved to other parts of the building due to concerns that the roof would become unstable. No injuries were immediately associated with the collapse.
Elsewhere, a warehouse roof collapsed as the storms moved through Southaven, Mississippi, near Memphis, police said. The building had been evacuated and no injuries were reported.
The Mississippi Senate suspended its work Wednesday as weather sirens blared during a tornado watch in downtown Jackson. Some employees took shelter in the Capitol basement.
Rander P. Adams说，他和他的妻子Janice Delores Adams在周三下午的龙卷风警告中爆炸时，他在杰克逊市中心附近的家中。他说，当她试图打开前门时，他们的灯光闪烁着，一个大窗户爆炸了他的妻子。
“The glass broke just as if someone threw a brick through it,” he said. “I advised her then, ‘Let’s go to the back of the house.’”
亚当斯说，暴风雨在附近的公园里倒下了树木，他们房子对面的一棵大树分为一半。他说：“我们很幸运。”“它没有跌倒在房子上，而是跌倒了。”
Earlier Wednesday, a tornado that struck Springdale, Arkansas, and the adjoining town of Johnson, about 145 miles (235 kilometers) northwest of Little Rock, about 4 a.m. injured seven people, two critically, said Washington County, Arkansas, Emergency Management Director John Luther.
The National Weather Service said that tornado would be rated “at least EF-2,” which would mean wind speeds reached 111-135 mph (178-217 kph).
“Search and rescue teams have been deployed, as there are significant damages and injuries,” Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said.
In northwest Missouri, an EF-1 tornado with wind speeds around 90 mph (145 kph) struck St. Joseph on Tuesday night, damaging two homes. Another EF-1 tornado with wind speeds around 100 mph (160 kph) touched down briefly before dawn Wednesday in a rural subdivision east of Dallas, damaging two roofs, the weather service reported.
暴风雨一周后a tornado in a New Orleans-area neighborhoodcarved a path of destruction在一夜之间and killed a man.
气象服务预报员说，路易斯安那州的强风推翻了半拖船，从移动房屋中剥离了屋顶，一棵树坠入房屋并撞倒了电线，他们没有立即确认该州的任何龙卷风。
Firefighters, meanwhile, have been trying to get handle on a wildfire spreading near Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, amid mandatory evacuations as winds whipped up ahead of the approaching storm front.
截至周三下午，大火未包含，已扩大到约250英亩（超过100公顷）。一个人受伤，距离2016年野火不远的一个社区上方的烟羽上升到了旅游小镇盖特林堡，炸死14人，破坏或摧毁约2500座建筑物。
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瓦格斯特·佩特斯（Wagster Pettus）报道了来自密西西比州杰克逊（Jackson）的报道，田纳西州纳什维尔（Nashville）的马蒂斯（Mattise）；许多其他美联社记者为这份报告做出了贡献。
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