Tornadoes tear through Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Mississippi and Tennessee

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More than 450,000 energy customers across 10 states are without power early Saturday morning, according to tracker PowerOutage.us, after severe weather tore through vast portions of the central US Friday and continued overnight. 

Indiana has the most outages with around 99,000 homes and businesses in the dark, followed by more than 84,000 in Minnesota.

Here's a run down so far:

• Indiana: 99,063 customers without power
• Minnesota: 84,092 
• Ohio: 59,446
• Arkansas: 55,633
• Illinois: 55,731
• Tennessee: 48,323
• Michigan: 17,629
• Wisconsin: 13,177
• Kentucky: 13,282
• Iowa: 12,880

A tornado watch is in effect for east-central Mississippi until 7:00 a.m. CDT, according to the Storm Prediction Center. 

That includes the city of Columbus.

Storms developing in this area could contain a couple of intense tornadoes, with wind gusts up to 70 mph.

Two people have been killed as a destructive storm swept through Sullivan County, according to Sgt. Matt Ames with the Indiana State Police.

This brings the death toll from the storms raking through large portions of the central US to at least five, including three people who were killed Friday in Arkansas.

Several residences and the local volunteer fire department building were also damaged, Ames said. Emergency crews continue to provide help in the area.

Correction: An earlier version of this post gave an incorrect location for Sullivan County.

Jim Pirtle, the emergency management director for Sullivan County, Indiana, told CNN his wife became trapped inside his family's home as a storm ripped through the county Friday night, destroying the house.

Their son was able to rescue her, he said.

“I called (my wife) 45 minutes before it hit. I told her, 'Robin, you need to go somewhere.' We don’t have a basement," Pirtle said. "I was on the phone with her and she was crying, ‘Jim I love you’ and it started tearing the house apart.”

“We got hit bad,” Pirtle said speaking by phone from Florida.

The official was out of state when the severe weather hit Sullivan County. He said he has been working with emergency officials remotely.

The storm hit the southern side of the city and "destroyed a lot of homes," Pirtle said.

“I’m not sure about fatalities, yet,” he added. “We still got people missing."

Correction: An earlier version of this post gave an incorrect location for Sullivan County.

The number of preliminary tornado reports during Friday's storms has ticked up to at least 53, according to the Storm Prediction Center.

Here's where they have been reported:

• Illinois: 22
• Arkansas: 12
• Iowa: 8
• Wisconsin: 5
• Tennessee: 4
• Mississippi: 2

Multiple houses in the small city of Sullivan, Indiana, have sustained “severe damage” due to storms in the area, said Sullivan Mayor Clint Lamb.

“We need all citizens to stay safe and stay put,” Lamb said in a Facebook post overnight. “First responders need clear streets so they can tend to affected areas. Please pray for the Sullivan families and public safety personnel.” 

Sullivan is around 100 miles southwest of Indianapolis.

The mayor also thanked local police, fire, and ambulance services for their assistance.

Lamb said that a tornado had touched down in the area, however, the National Weather Service has not confirmed any of the storms in the state are tornadoes.

According to meteorologist Andrew White with the Indianapolis Office of the National Weather Service, three Indiana counties — Howard, Johnson, and Sullivan — have been hit hard by storms.

Howard County Emergency Management Director Janice Hart, however, described the damage in the county as minor and reported no injuries.

Sullivan County was under a tornado warning and a special statement had been sent out on the storm that moved through the county. 

A tornado watch is in effect for northern Alabama, northern Mississippi and central Tennessee until 7:00 a.m. CDT (8 a.m. ET) Saturday, according to the Storm Prediction Center.

That includes the cities of Nashville, Tennessee, and Huntsville, Alabama.

The areas could see tornadoes rated as EF-2 or higher in intensity, with destructive winds topping 111 mph. Storms could also bring wind gusts up to 70 mph and isolated events of hail nearly the size of an egg.

More than 200 people were packed inside the Apollo Theatre in Belvidere, Illinois, for an event when its roof collapsed Friday night, leaving one person dead and dozens injured, the city fire chief said.

The collapse occurred as a storm hit Belvidere's Boone County, with winds in the area reported to be in excess of 50 mph. It is not yet clear whether the storm caused the theater's roof to cave in.

First responders arrived within minutes of the collapse and began pulling people from the debris, Belvidere Fire Department Chief Shawn Schadle said.

Twenty-eight people were taken to hospital by ambulance, he said, adding that five had severe injuries.

Rescue teams performed an initial search of the theater and were carrying out a second search, "looking into the stabilization of the building,” Schadle said.

The venue's event coordinator estimated that approximately 260 concertgoers, staff and performers were in the theater, the chief said. The night's headliner, metal band Morbid Angel, announced on Facebook that their show was canceled due to the weather.

One of the other bands set to play, Revocation, said in a Facebook post that "everyone in the bands and crew are safe." It added, "Our thoughts are with everyone affected by this disaster."

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker said in a tweet that his office is “closely monitoring” the situation.