Tornado Death Confirmed as Violent Storms Smack the South

Men lift beams as they try to determine the status of a Hammond organ that was trapped by tornado debris in the First Pentecostal Church in Columbus, Miss., on Feb. 24, 2019. Rogelio V. Solis/AP

COLUMBUS, Mississippi—Weekend storms raked parts of the Southeast, leaving deaths and injuries in their wake as a tornado smashed into a commercial district in a small Mississippi city and drenching rains fed a rising flood threat.

A woman was killed when a tornado hit Columbus, Mississippi, and a man died when he drove into floodwaters in Tennessee, officials said.