Authorities counted six people killed by tornadoes that struck Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina on Wednesday.

The lone fatality in Forsyth, Georgia was found inside a car hit by a falling tree, according to the fire department.

An adult and a child died when their home collapsed in Davidson County, North Carolina, said Lt. Alton Hanes, a spokesman with the county's emergency operations center, according to CNN. Ten people were injured and one building was destroyed in an area south of Lexington.

In York County, South Carolina near Rock Hill, a couple in their 60s was killed, said the country coroner. Another 60-year-old also died while trying to rescue her daughter and granddaughter.

Emergency crews were working Thursday to clear debris from roads and look for injured people in York County.

The storms in the southeastern U.S. damaged homes and cut power in the said states, Louisiana Alabama and Mississippi. A twister destroyed mobile homes in Alabama at a pair of housing parks near the Auburn University campus.

Fifteen people were reported hurt in Mississippi where trees fell on homes and mobile homes were tossed off the ground.
Weathermen said a cold front stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the Northeast triggered the storms with winds of up to 30mph, according to New York Times.