More bad weather is being predicted for the Midwest and South after a week of severe storms left at least 43 people dead, communities devastated, and thousands without power.
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After the twisters hit, fires were sparked at trailers and homes, and roads were blocked by debris. On Christmas Day a tornado touched down in north-central Alabama. Flash floods in the USA southeast were also a possibility.
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Glenda Hunt, 69, was cooking chicken and making dressing Wednesday night at her Benton County home, where Christmas Eve lunch is a family tradition, when her daughter called to warn her of the approaching storm. The area is about 40 miles east of Huntsville. She tweeted, “We have destroyed and damaged homes. Please do not get out on the roads if you do not have to”. Two died in a home nearby.
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The weather service in Birmingham said that both threats – of severe storms and flooding – were expected to be on the low side for this round of storms.
Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management spokeswoman Keli Cain says there were no immediate reports of weather-related deaths, but the Oklahoma Highway Patrol is searching for two hunters missing in Kay County.
Officer Joe Harn, a Garland police spokesman, said Saturday night the four were killed in accidents that occurred during a massive storm, but it’s unclear if all four were in the same vehicle or how they died.
Jason Strunk, the football coach at Lubbock High School, said he was checking his home’s pipes and laying out cat litter for traction on his sidewalk and driveway, just as he learned growing up and living in colder climates farther north. Strunk’s major concern was unprepared drivers going out on wet, icy roads. Cruz Hernandez said several people were injured although the exact number was known. “They really don’t know how to drive in this kind of stuff”. The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency said the victims were a 19-year-old woman and two 22-year-old men. In a statement, Flynn said preliminary damage estimates showed 241 homes were destroyed or severely damaged.
More than 400 homes in total were affected. Severe thunderstorms, tornadoes and flooding possibleHarn says there are no active rescues underway, though first responders continue to search houses for anyone trapped after the storms passed.
This comes after two possible tornados on Christmas Day outside Birmingham, Alabama.
The flooding is the result of heavy downpours that have thrashed the southeastern United States since Wednesday, bringing record rainfalls in some areas. Four inches of rain walloped the city of Mobile, Alabama, on Wednesday – smashing the previous record of 2.2 inches set in 1990. The storm was bringing with it the risk of falling trees, downed power lines and flash flooding, officials said.
Local broadcaster NBC5 reported that a fifth person also died in the city and that all five were involved in a traffic accident, according to Garland police spokesman Mike Hatfield. ‘By issuing a State of Emergency, I have directed all state agencies to take necessary actions to be prepared to respond to the anticipated flooding across Alabama.
At least 14 people were confirmed dead – seven of them in MS, including a 7-year-old boy who perished while riding in a vehicle that was swept up and tossed by storm winds.
Inmates from an Alabama correctional facility were evacuated as a precaution to potential flooding caused by the recent heavy rainfall.
Red Eagle is a minimum-security correctional facility and is 3 miles north of Montgomery near the Tallapoosa River. It’s part of the same cell that warranted an earlier tornado warning in Tuscaloosa County, southwest of the Jefferson.
A flood warning was in effect late Saturday afternoon for parts of northern Alabama.
Damage caused by a tornado is seen in a neighborhood in Birmingham, Alabama, December 26, 2015.
Peak tornado season in the South is in the spring, but storms can happen any time.
Tornadoes also struck Tennessee and Arkansas.
Barineau said the tornado hit about 6:45 p.m. across an area of 2 square miles, and was near the intersection of Interstate 30 and George Bush Turnpike, which is a major route in the region.
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Heavy rain and strong winds, like forecast for parts of Missouri, Illinois and Arkansas on Monday, are often more troubling for airlines than snowfall.
