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One dead in West TN; power outages, damage reported across Middle TN A woman was killed as the storms swept through Dresden in West Tennessee. Dresden Chief of Police Christopher Crocker said a woman was asleep in her bed in a mobile home when a tree fell onto it. The woman was crushed to death, Crocker said. He said she was in her late 40s or early 50s. Other minor injuries were reported in the area, along with downed power lines, trees and some damaged buildings. Around 31,000 customers across Tennessee lost power as the morning storms moved through, according to TEMA. ....
May 5, 2021 Share Relentless winds and rain pummeled large swaths of the South on Tuesday, causing tornadoes, sparking a flash flood emergency in Alabama and damaging homes from Texas to Virginia. The storms prompted boat rescues, toppled trees and power lines and raised the threat of flash floods elsewhere in the region. The National Weather Service issued the flash flood emergency for the Birmingham, Alabama, area at the start of rush hour, warning that torrential rains as much as 5 inches (13 centimeters) in some areas had already fallen and another 2 inches (5 centimeters) were possible before the storm system continued eastward. Jefferson County Emergency Management officials in the Birmingham area urged residents to stay off the roads because so many were flooded. ....
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Relentless wind and rain continued to pummel large swaths of the South on Tuesday, causing tornadoes, sparking a flash flood emergency in Alabama and damaging homes ....