Tornado knocks vehicles around in N. Carolina, kills 1

There were no confirmed reports of tornadoes in Alabama but winds gusting up to 60 mph flipped a mobile home, said George Grabryan, emergency management director in Lauderdale County. A house and a building in the rural county were also damaged.

In Tupelo, Miss., an apparent tornado wrecked a furniture store where William Felks and Allan Jackson had to brace themselves during the storm.

"Me and Allan hid behind a door, and I was holding on to his belt as tight as I could. Then in seconds it stopped," Felks told the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. "It took less than a minute to mess this whole building up. Man, I was scared."

___

Associated Press writer Chris Talbott in Jackson, Miss., contributed to this report.