NBC News - A worker was killed and three others were injured in an explosion Monday at a fish processing plant on the Mississippi coast. Omega Protein spokesman Ben Landry said it happened about 9:30 a.m. while employees of a subcontractor were working on two storage tanks and one of the tanks blew up. Jackson County Coroner Vicki Broadus identified the dead worker as Jerry Lee Taylor II, 25, of Mobile, Alabama. The three injured men were taken to Singing River Hospital in Pascagoula where two were treated for minor injuries and one underwent surgery and was listed in fair condition.

Lexington Herald-Leader - Charlotte Yaden sat on her front porch Sunday afternoon trying to comfort her dog Molly Rose as Yaden gazed out at the debris surrounding her Cathy Lane home. Less than four hours before, a strong storm sent her neighbor’s metal carport cartwheeling into her driveway, narrowly missing her husband’s truck. Her 2013 sport utility vehicle wasn’t so lucky. One of its windows was knocked out — a neighbor’s trash can the likely culprit. "It didn’t sound like a locomotive or a train," Yaden said of Sunday’s storm.

WWMT - Several communities in west Michigan are cleaning up after getting slammed by high winds and golf ball sized hail. The strong thunderstorm cut a path of destruction along the border of Kalamazoo and Allegan Counties. Neighbors tell us there hasn’t been a hail storm like this in decades. Sunday night, the sky opened up and Mother Nature showed her wrath. “It sounded like somebody was throwing golf balls at the house,” said Kathy Porter of Cooper Township. WWMT.com and our social media sites were soon flooded with pictures and videos of the huge hail.

FOX News - A powerful storm blew through Massachusetts on Monday, causing extensive building damage in Revere, a coastal city north of Boston. Revere Deputy Fire Chief Mike Viviano said the department received dozens of calls reporting damage. He said there were no immediate reports of serious injuries. "We have dozens of trees down, downed power lines, wires down all over the city, partial buildings collapses, roof collapses," Viviano said. Meteorologists planned to investigate whether a tornado touched down.

KMOV - A fire at a Lake St. Louis apartment complex damaged 32 cars in a carport early Monday morning, destroying 20 of them. That fire broke out around 3:00 Monday morning at 45 Cedar Bluff Drive at the Cedar Ridge Apartments in Lake St. Louis, Missouri.Fire officials said the carport, which was made of wood, was fully engulfed in flames when they arrived on the scene. There were no injuries and fire crews did not immediately know the cause of the blaze, but said it did not appear to be suspicious.

WKMG - As a tornado tore through the Massey Ranch Air Park in Edgewater, several people were inside the hangars, said fire officials."Damage was everywhere, there was hangar debris everywhere, so I drove over here thinking there was nothing left," said John Calvo, who spent the night with his family inspecting damage at the private airplane hangars. Calvo’s property was barely touched, but the one next door took the brunt of the storm, with its owner cowering inside.

FOX News - Wildfires burning near Northern California vineyards and in the Yosemite National Park area were threatening hundreds of homes even as crews worked to contain them. The Sand Fire in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of Sacramento was 50 percent surrounded as of late Sunday, after burning 13 homes and 38 outbuildings. It has scorched roughly 6 square miles of rugged grassland and timber near wine-growing regions in Amador and El Dorado counties.

FOX News - Powerful storms that raked across several states in the eastern U.S. on Sunday destroyed at least 10 homes in Tennessee, but there were no immediate reports of any deaths or injuries, authorities said. Spokeswoman Gina Breeding with the office of emergency management in east Tennessee’s Claiborne County told The Associated Press that officers searched ruined homes Sunday night in one particularly hard-hit community, Speedwell. She said the county sheriff and his wife safely took refuge in their basement when storms hit and destroyed their home. "He and his wife are both OK," Breeding said by telephone, adding law enforcement officials had set up a command post for operations and a school was opened for anyone left homeless.

The Courant - The severe weather that moved across northern Hartford County Sunday evening caused a house fire on Prospect Street and brought a tree down onto houses on Crescent Beach Drive. The fire at 95-97 Prospect St. was caused by a lightning strike, Thompsonville Fire Department Capt. Keith Pliszka said. Firefighters were called to the house at 7:34 p.m. and had the fire under control in about 40 minutes. The two families living in the home were displaced and the American Red Cross said it provided assistance to five adults and two children.

KTVK - A destructive storm hit North Phoenix Saturday night. The storm delivered heavy rain, hail and strong wind that brought down trees and power poles in the area of 40th Street and Greenway Road. The National Weather Service confirmed that there was a macroburst where the worst of the damage is located. The strongest wind gust was measured at 100 miles per hour. Hurricane winds start at 75 miles per hour. "We had quite a storm that came through last night," said Ken Waters, warning coordination meteorologist with the National Weather Service.