just driven through some of it, and it is heartbreaking."

Canton resident Ernestine Cook said she rushed to a storm shelter just in time.

"It hit so hard, so fast. It just kept moving," she said. "I've never seen anything like it after 22 years of living here."

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It's been a disastrous, costly start to the year for weather

Multiple fatalities reported as floods, tornadoes hit Midwest, Texas

Flash flood warnings were issued in multiple states, and there were forecasts for an "ongoing major flood event" in parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri. Five to 9 inches of rain fell in some areas Saturday, the weather service said.

The threat of additional flooding and other storm issues moved Sunday into the South and the Tennessee Valley.

"The good news for Texas, Arkansas, Missouriand Oklahoma is that things are shifting off to the east," AccuWeather senior meteorologist Dan Pydynowski told USA TODAY. "That is bad news for Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama."

He said multiple tornadoes and heavy rains were reported Sunday in Mississippi. Gov. Phil Bryant said one death was reported in Holmes County near the town of Durant. Two people were injured, he said. Carlton Hurt, the state's first confirmed fatality of the storm system, was killed when a tree fell on his home, according to Holmes County Coroner Dexter Howard.

Meanwhile, an unidentified 7-year-old died at a hospital after he was electrocuted while trying to unplug a charger from a golf cart, Rankin County Undersheriff Raymond Duke said.

In New Orleans, the PGA Tour's Zurich Classic golf tournament was suspended at