Two people have died and others injured as floods and high winds struck parts of Britain.
Around midnight last night, a woman was trapped under the tree and taken to hospital where she later died.
Severe flood warnings, the highest alert possible, have been issued by the UK's Environment Agency for several parts of southwest England.
People were forced to flee their homes last night as flood water and torrential rain caused "serious threats to life" in villages in Cornwall.
Special rest centres were set up in the worst-hit villages, though Cornwall Council said these were all later stood down as people returned home or went elsewhere as flood threats stabilised.
Severe flood warnings have been issued for Lostwithiel, Helston, Polperro and Perranporth in Cornwall, where rivers threatening to burst their banks. More than 150 flood warnings were also in place across the country, and 222 flood alerts, the majority in the southwest.
Roads have also been closed across the region as highways became impassable because of rain and debris.
Inspector Andrew Webber of Devon and Cornwall Police said the woman who died was 21 and had been living in a small tent sheltered against the wall at the roadside when the tree fell on it, and that she died almost immediately.
Mr Webber told Sky News: "It was a very large oak tree that had been there for very many years.
"Obviously we've had lots of heavy weather, it's been raining an awful lot, and the tree for whatever reason came down.
"It's taken a wall with it when it came down and then on top of that the tent was underneath and the tree has fallen onto the tent.
"There are two males involved with minor injuries and obviously a poor lady of 21 who received fatal injuries at the time."
He said officers were on the scene almost immediately, but there was very little that could be done for the woman and that her injuries were fatal "almost instantaneously".
Mr Webber said that while towns and villages across the region had been cut off, most of the flood water was receding. He warned people to take extreme care because of standing water on roads and low-lying flood waters.
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