By By Jan Wesner Childs and Ron Bracket From The Weather Channel

At a Glance

• The death toll is rising in the wake of Friday night’s severe weather.
• There were reports of people trapped in debris.
• Earlier, the National Weather Service determined a tornado hit the town of Poolville, Texas.

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Everything you’ve heard is probably true. We’ve been hit pretty hard,” Rolling Fork Mayor Eldridge Walker told The Weather Channel at around 11 p.m. EDT Friday.

(​FORECAST: Severe Weather Outbreak In South)

Eldridge confirmed there were multiple people injured and rescue crews were pulling people from the debris.

“We’ve got a lot of devastation here,” he said.

T​he mayor said he and his wife took shelter in their bathtub as the storm hit. 

Trees and power lines were down and more than 55,000 power outages were being reported in Mississippi and Tennessee combined as of about 12:18 a.m. Saturday, according to PowerOutage.us. This includes near-total darkness in the counties where tornado-hit Rolling Fork and Winona, Mississippi, are located. 

T​he Sharkey County Sheriff’s Office in Rolling Fork reported multiple injuries, gas leaks and people trapped in their homes, according to the Vicksburg News.

A​n area hospital was also damaged.

The tornado was spotted by chasers and radar confirmed that debris was being pulled up to 22,000 feet. This is indicative of an EF3-plus tornado. 

Rolling Fork is about 60 miles northwest of Jackson. 

V​ideo posted to social media showed power flashes as the tornado moved through the area.

​he tornado continued northeastward for at least 40 miles to near Silver City, Tchula, Winona, and Amory Mississippi. 

T​he storm is part of a line of severe weather moving across parts of the south tonight. See the full forecast here. 

Earlier, two people died in flooding in Missouri and a mobile home was tossed around by a tornado in Poolville, Texas, about 35 miles northwest of Fort Worth. 

H​eavy overnight rain triggered flash flooding in southwestern Missouri. 

A​ vehicle carrying six young adults was swept off a roadway at a low water crossing in Grovespring, Missouri, according to the Wright County Sheriff’s Office. Four of the people were able to make it to safety, but two others died in the incident, about 40 miles northeast of Springfield, Missouri.

O​ne woman remained unaccounted for after firefighters were called to help a vehicle swept away by floodwaters from the Finley River near Rogersville, Missouri. Two other people in the vehicle were rescued.

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