The National Weather Service confirmed that an EF-2 tornado struck around Aliceville, the McMullen and Sapps communities. Multiple tornadoes were reported in Alabama and Mississippi.
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The Pickens County tornado destroyed 13 homes, including 10 mobile homes, along Martin Luther King Jr. “I especially encourage residents of mobile homes to find safe places to go until the weather passes and for travelers to stay off the roads unless absolutely necessary during the storms”.
An EF-1 tornado was also confirmed in Fayette County near the Ashcraft Corner/Belk communities, and another tornado confirmed in Beaverton in Lamar County.
A low pressure system will pass well to Alabama’s north, but it will pull up humid, unsettled air from the Gulf, said Gerald Satterwhite, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Birmingham.
Emergency officials are assessing damage from a tornado that struck Newton and Lauderdale counties in eastern Mississippi.
The National Weather Service had reports of a tornado moving northeast at about 35 miles per hour, and tornado warnings had been issued for Chatham, Bryan and Effingham counties west of Savannah.
Property damage was reported as well, including the minimum security federal prison between Aliceville and Pickensville.
AL.com reported that dozens of homes were reduced to rubble and at least one moble home was cracked in half after it was apparently picked up, carried and dropped by high winds.
Strong winds damaged several homes and schools buildings in Crockett County, Tennessee, and public schools were closed on Wednesday as repairs were carried out. He also said many trees were toppled, and power was knocked out. Sollie says there were no immediate reports of injuries, although emergency crews were on standby.
The more widespread threat is for damaging winds and heavy rainfall.
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The same weather system that brought snow-storms to the midwest caused the tornadoes to be created, NBC News reported.
