Tuesday March 19th, 2024 6:28AM

Overnight storms kill at least 11 in Georgia

By The Associated Press

State emergency management officials say 11 people are dead and 23 are injured after severe weather struck central Georgia overnight.

Catherine Howden of the Georgia Emergency Management Agency said Sunday morning that the deaths occurred in Cook, Brooks and Berrien counties.

She said the deaths were related to severe weather but could not specify whether tornadoes were the cause. Tornado warnings had been issued for parts of Georgia overnight.

Local officials are still assessing the area. No other information was immediately available.

Early Sunday, the National Weather Service confirmed a tornado in Berrian County, and forecasters say the threat of severe weather in Georgia is not over.  

According to the NWS office in Peachtree City, a "significant" tornado outbreak is expected Sunday across north Florida and south Georgia, with a much lesser threat of severe weather in north Georgia.  Forecasters say the greatest threat for severe weather is south of the I-20 corridor with the highest threat along and south of a line from Albany to Dublin to Savannah.

The threat posed to Georgia, in addition to tornadoes, includes damaging winds of 70+ miles an hour, large hail, heavy rain and flooding.

A Flood Watch is in effect for north and central Georgia and a Flood Warning has been posted for Forsyth, Gwinnett, Fulton and Walton counties.

(AccessWDUN's Ken Stanford contributed to this story.)

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