One man died in Clay County, Ark., as rain and strong winds raged across the state Saturday night, authorities said.
A trailer home in the 4600 block of state Highway 90 was blown away, Sheriff Terry Miller said. Inside the trailer was 83-year-old Albert Charles Foster, the sheriff said.
Emergency responders found the trailer in a pond, Miller said. Foster, the only person inside the home, was pronounced dead at the scene.
No other details were immediately available.
The National Weather Service received reports of downed trees across a wide swath of the state after the line of storms moved through Saturday afternoon and evening.
In Mississippi County, the roof was ripped off a hotel west of Osceola, the agency said, and in Craighead County south of Bono, a pavilion was reported to have been destroyed.
At 8:30 p.m., Entergy reported more than 7,100 customers without power, including more than 1,400 in Mississippi County and about 1,900 in Poinsett County.
Several tornado warnings were issued as the line of storms moved eastward across the state. Areal and flash flood warnings remained in effect over a large part of the state on Saturday night.