TOWNSEND, Tenn. (July 6, 2012)--At least two people died as a violent thunderstorm struck the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Park spokeswoman Melissa Cobern said a man on a motorcycle was killed and a 41-year-old woman was struck and killed by a falling tree.
The names of the victims were withheld while their family members were told.
The storms struck Thursday evening at the west end of the 500,000-acre park on the Tennessee-North Carolina border.
Most of the damage appeared to be in the popular Cades Cove area of the park and in communities just outside the park boundaries.
The storm hit at around 6 p.m., blowing down many trees from Metcalf Bottoms across Cades Cove to the Abrams Creek section of the park.
Multiple injuries were reported.
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