Heavy weather swept across the south on Thursday, bringing a strong wind and possible tornado in pieces of Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi doing damage homes and leave dozens of thousands of clients without power. Threat of heavy weather Tornadoes are expected to continue into the night, officials said.
Videos and images emerging from across the south show fallen trees as well as damage homes and other buildings. There were preliminary reports of some injuries in central Alabama, although not immediately clear how many people in the south suffered or how bad.
The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency shared video on Twitter it showed home in Monroe County, which was practically flattened. Other neighboring houses had roof damage. with rubbish littering area.
“Which home fully destroyed- Malary White, press secretary for agency said on Thursday. Other reports of damage was expected later as local authorities continued to assess details of state, Ms. White said.
Officials report damage in Monroe County, in the northeast Mississippi was thought to be caused a tornado sometime after 7 am local time.
Like a storm system moved east on Thursday morning it also brought heavy weather conditions for portions of Alabama and Georgia.
Number of storm warning issued in Atlanta area including one for in area around Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, where The weather service has warned of winds up up to 60 mph, a quarter the size of hail and what could be a tornado. The airport was under a ground stop on Thursday afternoon because of thunderstorms in in areaThe Air Traffic Control System Command Center reports this.
In Bibb County, Alabama.the National Weather Service warned. on Twitter that “large and EXTREMELY DANGEROUS tornado” was moving through area around 11:34 local time. Less than an hour later, the meteorological service warned residents in Dallas County, Alabama.that “a large and extremely dangerous tornado” was moving through Selma.
mayor office in Selma said in a statement that city “received significant damage from the tornado.”
office urged residents to “please refrain from driving on the roads” and avoid downed power lines. “City brigades will out as soon how to practically clean up”, – he said.
AT news the conference on Thursday evening, officials in Selma said they didn’t get any reports of dead, but there are also injured. There will be a curfew in place from dusk to dawn through city.
“It’s a sad day in Selma and Dallas County,” said Jimmy Nunn, Dallas County Probate Judge. news the conference. “Please stay in home and let the emergency crews do what they do need do.”
Videos and images of Selma that were shared on social media on Thursday showed damaged buildings, fallen trees and vehicles with broken windows.
weather service office in Birmingham, Alabama said on Twitter that there was “confirmed damage” in in city of Selma.
severe weather the outbreak triggered several tornado warnings in different parts of Georgia and Alabama, including one at 12:53 when the meteorological service warned people in Otauga County, northwest of montgomery, of tornado emergency.
“This is a life-threatening situation” The weather service reported. “Help immediately!!”
Gary Weaver, Deputy director of The Otauga County Emergency Management Agency said there were reports of injuries and damage, including fallen power lines throughout the region. Mr Weaver said that office received reports of some injuries, but that they were not clear how many people was injured and how bad.
“We don’t even know degree of that’s not all, said Mr. Weaver. of damage.
So far there have been several reports of tornadoes in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi, the number of they are power of they still needed to be confirmed by the National Weather Service, which sends out a storm survey. teams out to affected areas in in hours and days after the storm.
Over 57,000 clients in Alabama, more over 66,000 clients in Georgia and more over 1200 clients in Mississippi were without power on Thursday afternoon, judging by the power outage.us, which tracks power outages across the country. It was unclear if all of these shutdowns were result of heavy weather moving across the south.
Forecasters speak of serious weather it was expected to continue until the night, with more more than 6.8 million people through Alabama and Georgia under tornado watch until 7:00 pm ET. The weather service reported What do you want in areas under surveillance could see likely tornadoes, individual hailstones the size of of quarters and gusts of wind of up up to 65 mph
Libya Albek-Ripka made a report.
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