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A tornado watch was issued for portions of North Texas, including Dallas, and Oklahoma, until 11 p.m. local time on Monday. The Weather Service cautioned that a few tornadoes were possible, as were softball-size hail and wing gusts up to 80 m.p.h. By Tuesday, the storm conditions are expected to shift east of Texas, said Ted Ryan, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Fort Worth.

Those advisories were issued after severe weather rolled into Georgia early Monday morning. The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning around 10:20 a.m. for portions of the state, including downtown Atlanta, after weather radar indicated that a tornado had developed.

Minutes after the warning was issued, the Weather Service received confirmed reports of a tornado in the area.

“Please take shelter if you are in the path of this storm,” the Weather Service said on Twitter.

In Douglasville, Ga., about 20 miles west of Atlanta, a man was pronounced dead after firefighters found him trapped inside his vehicle by power lines and a downed tree, according to Rick Martin, a spokesman for Douglas County.

There were several reports of damage in the county, including fallen trees and downed power lines. The Weather Service confirmed Monday evening that a tornado with sustained winds of up to 90 miles per hour had briefly touched down in the county, Mr. Martin said in a statement. “At least 10 homes had trees on them from the National Weather Service survey in this area,” he said.