A mother and daughter have been killed in a suspected tornado event in a small East Tennessee community

A suspected tornado event after dark Thursday killed two people in a small East Tennessee community, local emergency managers said, as part of a winter storm that left havoc across much of the eastern United States.

A suspected tornado event after dark Thursday killed two people in a small East Tennessee community, local emergency managers said, as part of a winter storm that left havoc across much of the eastern United States. Severe weather blasted through Morgan County, killing a mother and daughter in the same home, the county Emergency Management & Homeland Security office said Friday on Facebook. No ages or other identifying information were given. Three injuries also were reported, the agency said, in a county that’s no stranger to deadly and damaging tornados. The suspected tornado hit the small communities of Deer Lodge and Sunbright around 8:27 p.m. and caused “severe property damage,” according to the county. The National Weather Service will send a team Friday to Deer Lodge to confirm whether the destruction was caused by a tornado, the agency told CNN. More than 100 emergency responders are deployed in the county, the emergency management office said. That includes dozens from a Tennessee Highway Patrol strike team that will “look for any people that are missing, and we assist in any way we can,” said state Highway Patrol Capt. Stacey Heatherly. About 9 percent of Morgan County had no power at 8:30 a.m. Friday, according to the tracking website PowerOutage.us.