Another bout of rough weather slams the South

Another round of severe weather raked the storm-weary South with rain, hail and high winds Friday, damaging homes and injuring at least five people in Tennessee and Kentucky.

A mother and two children were hurt when strong thunderstorms moved through southern Kentucky in the early morning, knocking over their trailer near Bowling Green. Tara Duvall, a spokeswoman for Warren County Emergency Management, said all three were hospitalized.

“Apparently, the trailer rolled twice and fell apart,” Duvall said.

Homes were also reported destroyed in Kentucky’s Wayne County. In Tennessee’s Lawrence County, a possible tornado damaged 56 homes, felled trees and littered yards with debris.

In northern Giles County, adjoining Lawrence, power lines were knocked down, a dozen homes were damaged, and three people were injured when trees fell on an ambulance, emergency management officials said.

Wind or rain damage apparently caused a roof to collapse Friday evening at an apartment complex in Hoover, Ala., outside Birmingham, forcing the evacuation of about 20 units, said Mark Kelly of the Jefferson County Emergency Management Agency. No injuries were reported.

The damaging storms came days after heavy rains flooded parts of Tennessee and two months after tornadoes killed 33 people in the state.

In northern Wisconsin, schools closed, thousands of residents lost power because of trees falling on power lines, and snow plows were back at work Friday as blizzardlike conditions hit.