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The severe weather continues on Friday.

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Storm damage and debris lays scattered in Morton, Miss., where the National Weather Service's preliminary survey shows consistency with a high-end EF-2 tornado. (Twitter/@NWSJacksonMS)

At least three people were killed as severe storms struck the South on Thursday. The storms knocked down trees, damaged homes and left nearly 100,000 customers without power on Friday.

There were 10 reports of tornadoes on Thursday, though the National Weather Service has not yet confirmed an exact number.

Two people died in Mississippi due to the storms. One person was killed after a tree fell on a vehicle in Neshoba County, Mississippi, on Thursday.

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"We have damage everywhere," Neshoba Sheriff Tommy Waddell told The Neshoba Democrat. "We have reports of trees on houses. We have one fatality."

In the rural Mississippi town of Gillsburg, 24-year-old Kendrick Magee was also killed while driving as the storm beared down.

In St. Clair County, Alabama, Monica Clements, 42, was killed when a tree fell on her home.

The severe weather continues on Friday. NOAA has issued tornado watches for parts of Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. Severe thunderstorms are underway in parts of northern Florida, eastern Georgia and upstate South Carolina, while scattered severe thunderstorms are hitting parts of southern Virginia and the Carolinas.