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Violent storms kill 1 in South; more severe weather forecast later in week

Doyle Rice
USA TODAY
A fallen tree demolished a car in Georgia on Tuesday, March 21, 2017.

Violent storms ripped across the South on Tuesday evening, leaving one person dead in Georgia as hail and high winds damaged homes, knocked down trees and caused power outages from Missouri to South Carolina.

In Georgia, northeast of Atlanta, Jackson County Sheriff Janis Mangum said a husband, his wife and two children were in a bedroom when a tree crashed into the home, killing the man, the Associated Press reported. Mangum said the wife and children survived "by the grace of God."

More than 100,000 customers lost power in Tuesday evening's storm in Georgia alone, though that number was down to 39,000 by Wednesday morning.

Christiana Elementary School in Rutherford County, Tenn., sustained severe roof damage caused by the high winds and will be closed Wednesday, district spokesman James Evans said. The school was having parent-teacher conferences when the damage happened, but there were no injuries.

After a quiet day Wednesday, another round of severe weather is forecast to fire up from the Plains to the Southeast from Thursday through Saturday, according to AccuWeather.

"Given the time of the year, there will likely be at least a few tornadoes in the strongest storms," said AccuWeather meteorologist Henry Margusity.

Contributing: The (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) Daily News Journal; WXIA-TV, Atlanta

A maintenance crew cleans up damage to the roof of Christiana Elementary School in Christiana, Tenn., following a storm on Tuesday, March 21, 2017.
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