Footage shows tornado whirling through Mississippi
At least 28,300 people had power outages in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, according to the tracking site Poweroutage.
Video shared with Reuters showed eyewitness account of the tornado making a landfall at a neighbourhood in Guntown, Mississippi, leaving several houses with damage roofs and broken trees.
Blake Ivy told Reuters that they were on curfew until 7 a.m. local time (1300GMT) on Tuesday (December 17).
More rain and wind is expected overnight and into Tuesday as the storms push off into southeastern Georgia, Florida's panhandle and the Carolina coasts in the morning hours.
