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At least 5 dead following year’s first severe spring weather outbreak

By Adriana Navarro, Accuweather.com

At least 10 people have died in the wake of a severe weather system bringing fierce winds, damaging tornadoes and flash flooding to the U.S. South and Midwest.

Several others were injured during the outbreak on Thursday and Friday in Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Kentucky as the storms trekked east.

The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency confirmed with AccuWeather that the first fatality had happened when a tree fell onto a vehicle in Yazoo County, located in the west-central part of the state.

The second fatality occurred in Arkansas’s Scott County after a man’s truck was likely swept from the roadway and into the Poteau River by flash flooding, according to the Scott County Sheriff’s Department. At least 7 inches of rainfall fell over Waldron, Ark., where the man had been found.

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