JACKSON, Miss. — A damaged women’s prison was running partly on backup power, schools and a major highway were closed for a second day, and an apartment building was evacuated on Wednesday, a day after storms unleashed tornadoes and flooding in the South and dumped heavy snow in the Midwest.

The administration building at the Federal Correctional Institution Aliceville, near the town of Aliceville in western Alabama, was running on a generator, the US Department of Justice said. No employees or inmates were hurt by the tornado that struck Tuesday afternoon at the low-security lockup, which houses about 1,850 inmates. In the same region, more than a dozen homes were destroyed by a tornado that touched down in the town of McMullen on Tuesday evening, the National Weather Service said.

In Georgia, the apartments being evacuated due to flooding before dawn Wednesday were near the town of Fort Oglethorpe, just south of Chattanooga, Tenn., the weather service said, citing a report from an emergency manager in Catoosa County, Georgia. No serious injuries were reported.

On Tuesday, tornadoes touched down in Mississippi and Alabama as thunderstorms swept through the region, while a powerful snowstorm buried parts of Colorado and Nebraska in more than a foot of snow before crawling into the Upper Midwest.

Several Nebraska schools and businesses remained closed a second day Wednesday as workers tried to reopen snow-covered roads. Interstate 80 was reopened after a 275-mile stretch was closed from Ogallala east to Lincoln, though other highways remained closed as snowplows pushed aside snow from the massive storm that moved across the state Tuesday.

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