Storms that hit the southern United States on Wednesday downed trees and caused other damage in Alabama, before prompting tornado warnings in Georgia.
No deaths or injuries were reported, but a tornado warning remained in effect for dozens of counties in southern Georgia, northern Florida and southeastern Alabama.
The Storm Prediction Center said there were reports of damage along the Georgia border in Barbour County, where trees were downed and at least one fell on a home. Images on social media showed a flipped truck and twisted metal at a business in Clayton.
It was not immediately clear if the damage was caused by strong direct winds or tornadoes. But forecasters issued tornado watches in northwest Florida and southwest Georgia as the storms moved east.
Several storms were battering northwest Florida, where hundreds of residents were forced from their homes over the weekend by a wildfire in the Panama City area, but it was unclear if there would be enough rain to extinguish the flames.
The storms were associated with a cold front moving to the southeast, forecasters said. There will be light snow as far south as Mississippi on Saturday, the weather service forecast.
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