Mom and daughter, 22, killed by brutal Tennessee tornado that ripped through homes without warning

A 45-year-old mother-of-two and her 22-year-old girl were killed successful a tornado that devastated their bluish Tennessee town connected Thursday night. 

Wendy Smith and her daughter, Felicia Williams, were tragically killed successful the brutal tornado that rampaged done their location successful Deer Lodge, their household confirmed connected Friday.

Felicia was astir to postgraduate from Medical Assistant school, according to a GoFundMe acceptable up for their ceremonial expenses and to rebuild their location which was 'also a implicit loss.' 

The storms that deed conscionable earlier 8:30 p.m. past nighttime besides resulted 3 reported injuries, officials said connected Friday morning.  In the aftermath of the devastation, respective radical connected to Wendy and Felicia person travel guardant to explicit their loss. 

'My wife, from Morgan County, is steadily getting updates from her household deed by the tornadoes. She's already mislaid her cousin, not definite astir her cousin's daughter, and sounds similar determination whitethorn beryllium more,' Timothy Luketich posted connected X past night. 

'We learned past nighttime that some had passed, seemingly they were the lone 2 successful the full tempest way not to marque it.' 

Sandy Chambers replied to Luketich's post: 'Praying for your woman and family. I deliberation I cognize your wife's cousin, if it's the aforesaid person, which seems like, she is joined to my nephew. Please hug her for me.' 

'Two of the sweetest humans I've ever known. Just axenic goodness successful some of them,' she added.  

Morgan County Emergency Management spokesperson Aaron Evans confirmed that Morgan County was deed with a tornado crossed the Deer Lodge and Sunbright areas. 

More than 100 unit were deployed to assistance those successful request according to a Facebook station from Tennessee Emergency Management and Homeland Security. 

The country saw terrible harm to spot and roads, arsenic trees and homes were whipped up successful the brutal tornado. 

Nearly 8 percent of Morgan County was near without powerfulness astatine 9:45 americium connected Friday, according to PowerOutage.us. 

The Tennessee Highway Patrol said connected societal media that troopers would beryllium successful Morgan County ensuring nonmigratory information arsenic good arsenic assessing and helping with operation damage. 

Gov. Bill Lee said successful a connection Friday that helium and his wife, Maria, prayed for those impacted by the tempest and that helium would sojourn the agrarian assemblage aboriginal that day. 

'Please articulation Maria and maine successful lifting our neighboring Tennesseans up successful supplication arsenic effect teams assistance survivors,' Lee said connected societal media. 

The Morgan County School District said connected its website that schools would beryllium closed connected Friday due to the fact that of 'significant harm from tornadoes successful parts of our county.' 

An Emergency Operations Center has been established, with further staging and locations including Wartburg Central High School, according to Tennessee Emergency Management. 

'Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and loved ones of those affected by this tragic event,' they wrote. 

 'The Morgan County Emergency Management Agency is moving intimately with local, authorities and national agencies to respond to this lawsuit and supply enactment to those affected.'