Tennessee is reeling after four straight days of severe storms — and the end still isn’t in sight.
On Saturday, the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency activated a Level 3 – State of Emergency out of the State Emergency Operations Center in Nashville, which remains in effect Sunday morning. TEMA also announced that the Tennessee Department of Health has confirmed 10 weather-related deaths in the past week.
Here’s what we know about the death toll so far.
Fayette County father and daughter killed after tornado hits home
A 48-year-old man and his 16-year-old daughter in Fayette County were among the first batch of four weather-related deaths in Tennessee reported Thursday. The man was pronounced dead on the scene, and the daughter died later in the hospital.
According to Fayette County Chief Deputy Raymond Garcia, the two were killed after a tornado struck a modular home outside of Moscow, about 45 minutes from downtown Memphis.
Three others were injured, including the mother, 46, who was transported to the hospital in critical condition.
What we know about the 8 other deaths
While the Fayette County Sherrif’s Office shared details of the deaths in Fayette County, details remain sparse on the others who have died across the state.
The largest share of victims, five, was in McNairy County, where a preliminary EF-3 tornado with 160 m.p.h. winds ripped through Selmer early Thursday morning. Two years ago, another devastating tornado hit McNairy County and left nine dead in the small towns of Bethel Springs, Adamsville and Rose Creek.
The other three storm-related deaths were confirmed in Carroll, Obion and Tipton counties. Obion County, located in the northwestern corner of the state near the southernmost edge of Kentucky, on Saturday issued a voluntary evacuation in areas that are prone to flooding ahead of another band of severe weather, according to TEMA.
Austin Hornbostel is the Metro reporter for The Tennessean. Reach him at [email protected].
This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Tennessee’s storms, tornadoes kill 10: What we know
