The year’s first deadly US tornado struck after dark Thursday, killing two people in a small East Tennessee community as the first of five back-to-back, jet stream-driven winter storms pummeled the eastern United States. Severe weather blasted through Morgan County, killing a mother and daughter in the same home.
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Three injuries also were reported, the agency said, in a county that is no stranger to deadly and damaging tornadoes. More than a dozen homes were damaged by the storm, county officials said Friday afternoon. “That community in particular is for whatever reason a hotbed for that kind of activity,” county emergency management spokesperson Aaron Evans said. “They’re resilient people … they’ll bounce back. ” The Morgan County tornado – with a preliminary intensity of EF2, according to the National Weather Service – slammed the small communities of Deer Lodge and Sunbright around 8:27 p.m. and caused “severe property damage,” according to the county. The twister in Deer Lodge had a maximum wind speed of 135 mph, a weather service survey team found – just 1 mph shy of EF3 strength, to which it still could be upgraded. More than 100 emergency responders were deployed in the county, the emergency management office said, including dozens from a Tennessee Highway Patrol strike team, who will “look for any people that are missing, and we assist in any way we can,” said state Highway Patrol Capt. Stacey Heatherly.
