Six People Dead After Weekend of Extreme Weather as South Faces New Round of Storms and Intense Heat Hits Southwest

A total of six deaths have been reported after a string of severe weather across the Southern region of the U.S., according to a report from NBC News.

The most recent death occurred after a likely tornado tore through Mississippi overnight. The state’s Emergency Management Agency confirmed in a press release one fatality in Jasper County, located 70 miles east of Jackson.

It happened shortly before midnight. Homes were severely damaged, Fox Weather reported, and trees and power lines were downed in the storm.

The spate of weather incidents injured over 100 others and cut off power to 487,000 households in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas.

Additional severe thunderstorms, capable of producing damaging winds, are possible across parts of the middle Gulf Coast states and Southeast on Monday, according to the National Weather Service.

There were also thunderstorm concerns for the Gulf Coast states on Monday.

Isolated strong-to-severe thunderstorms also may hit parts of the Carolinas, central and north Texas, and the northern Plains.

Clusters of potentially severe storms are likely Monday morning from southern Mississippi into southern Alabama, southern Georgia, and north Florida. They could reintensify later in the day.

Severe and damaging gusts will be the main hazard in the storms.

Other storms should develop later in the afternoon near the middle Gulf Coast, with these storms capable of large hail and damaging winds according to government forecasters.

Meanwhile, in the Southwest, residents will be dealing with intense heat.

Texas will see extreme heat for much of the state but also as far east as Louisiana.

Widespread high-temperature records are forecast to be tied or broken over the coming days as the upper ridge remains stationed overhead.

Temperatures are expected to top 100 degrees.