ATLANTA -- Authorities said one person was killed after severe storms cut a swath through Georgia, downing trees and damaging homes and businesses in multiple counties.

Lisa Janak with the Georgia Emergency Management Agency said other minor injuries have been reported after the early Sunday morning storms. Authorities have not yet identified the fatality, which was in Dublin near Macon.

Authorities in Johnson County were reporting a second fatality, but that information was incorrect, Janak said.

The violent storm system that ripped through Georgia left at least 19 people dead and dozens more injured in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri on Saturday.

Weather officials have not yet confirmed if any of the Georgia storms produced tornadoes. Teams from the National Weather Service were preparing Sunday morning to survey the damage and determine whether twisters hit the state, said Brian Lynn with the weather service station in Peachtree City.

Counties along the Georgia's southern coast were still under tornado warnings and watches late Sunday morning as the storm system worked its way across the state.

In Johnson County about 170 miles southeast of Atlanta, the small town of Kite was destroyed by what the storm, said Caroline Pope, a communications officer with the Johnson County Sheriff's Department. She said close to 1,000 people live in Kite.

"From what they're telling me, it's gone," she said from the dispatch center in the jail, which was operating on a generator because the power was out.

Several residents were trapped in their homes, but rescue efforts were slowed because authorities had to cut through trees blocking roads to get to the town, Pope said.

Georgia Power officials said at least 85,000 residents were without electricity across the state, mostly concentrated in the metro Atlanta area and the Macon area.