Selma, Alabama

A tornado that impacted central Alabama Thursday moved through the city of Selma, causing what witnesses described as catastrophic damage and killing at ...

The National Weather Service in Birmingham plans to survey the area later this evening and into Friday. Stuff was just everywhere." "It’s horrible through here," she said. Don't try to walk over and drive over the power lines. A tornado destroyed the town of Selma, Alabama, Thursday. We do have we do know that we had one city employee lost a relative in another community to this disaster.

(SELMA, Ala.) — A tornado delivered “significant damage” to the city of Selma, Alabama, as strong storms moved through the region on Thursday, according to ...

The tornado in Selma is one of at least 18 twisters reported across Alabama on Thursday. Most of Selma’s streets are closed due to downed power lines and trees, according to the mayor’s office. (SELMA, Ala.) — A tornado delivered “significant damage” to the city of Selma, Alabama, as strong storms moved through the region on Thursday, according to the mayor’s office.

The city of Selma took a direct hit after a significant, long-track tornado crossed central Alabama Thursday, causing devastation across multiple counties ...

“I will be arriving in Selma tonight to survey the damage myself and assist with recovery efforts.” The people of the Black Belt are strong, and we will get through this together!” “Five seconds later, I look up in the bathroom and I see sky.” He was inside the office building when the storm hit. The Sheriff’s Association is currently working to get inmates moved to other counties’ facilities. EMA officials were not able complete their assessments Thursday due to the downed trees on roadways.

A giant, swirling storm system billowing across the South spurred a tornado that shredded the walls of homes and toppled roofs in a city etched in the ...

The La Nina, a cooling of parts of the Pacific that changes weather worldwide, was a factor in making a wavy jet stream that brought a cold front through, Gensini said. "It is raining through the roof in the kitchen." That moisture hit the cold front and everything was in place, Gensini said. The storm hit in Griffin, south of Atlanta, with winds damaging a shopping area, local news outlets reported. "It would hit a house, and black smoke would swirl up," she said. In Selma, a city etched in the history of the civil rights movement, brick buildings collapsed, cars were on their side and traffic poles were strewn about in the downtown area. It was a flashpoint of the civil rights movement and where Alabama state troopers viciously attacked Black people advocating for voting rights as they marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965. After the tornado passed, Krishun Moore emerged from her home to the sound of children crying and screaming. "We have a lot of downed power lines," he said. In the same county southeast of Atlanta, the storm appeared to have knocked a freight train off its tracks, officials said. "We stopped and we prayed. However, the reports were not yet confirmed and some of them could later be classified as wind damage after assessments are done in coming days.

A giant, swirling storm system billowing across the U.S. South on Thursday killed at least six people in central Alabama, where a tornado ripped roofs off ...

Selma was a flashpoint of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. In the same county southeast of Atlanta, the storm appeared to have knocked a freight train off its tracks, officials said. However, the reports were not yet confirmed and some of them could later be classified as wind damage after assessments are done in coming days. The outer siding of a two-storey building was shredded by the storm, photos from The Selma Times-Journal showed. "It would hit a house and black smoke would swirl up," McVay said. Plumes of thick, black smoke rose over the city from a fire.

At least six people are dead in Alabama after tornadoes struck the state Thursday, destroying homes and causing what Selma's mayor called “significant ...

ET): A previous version of this article misstated the name of the NBC affiliate of Montgomery. In Spalding County, Georgia, the sheriff’s office reported “massive amounts of trees” down, blocking roads and taking down power lines. Another passenger in the car was injured and had to be transported to the hospital, Brewer said in a statement. Additionally, a previous version of this article misstated where the Autauga County Emergency Management Agency is. said at a news conference that the city was assessing the extent of the damage and that no fatalities had been reported as of Thursday afternoon. [photos and videos of damage around Selma](https://www.facebook.com/shanequa.peoples/posts/pfbid082evHTrt3ED2kMwokEsq7uuJQX9diQMiFAvESVN2dmpRRLyHBtD2eRXyXc1xcMo4l), some showing entire streets where multiple buildings had seemed to be demolished. Michael Brewer confirmed that a five-year-old boy was killed when a tree struck the vehicle the child was traveling in. His said his car was covered in so much heavy debris that he had to climb out of the passenger window. He said crews were en route to ensure that cell service was not lost in the city. Flights at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport have been ordered to ground stop because of thunderstorms, the Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday. With the power out, Selma’s city council held an emergency meeting outside, with audio recorded on a cell phone and streamed on Facebook. Selma officials implemented a curfew from dusk to dawn, warning residents that the exposed power lines created a dangerous situation.

Authorities said a more comprehensive picture of the damage and a search for additional victims would come Friday, when conditions were expected to clear.

That moisture hit the cold front, adding up to killer storms. Plumes of thick, black smoke from a fire rose over the city. The other ingredient is moisture. That death brought the toll to seven in the county about 40 miles (64 kilometers) northeast of Selma. It was a The storm appeared to have knocked a freight train off its tracks in the same county, officials said. The storm struck Griffin, Georgia, south of Atlanta, as mourners gathered for a wake at Peterson’s Funeral Home. But that’s not enough for a tornado outbreak. “It was very terrifying.” Officials in Griffin told local news outlets that multiple people had been trapped inside an apartment complex after trees fell on it. At least 35 possible tornado touchdowns were reported across several states, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. “We heard everything, but didn’t know how bad it actually was.”

SELMA, Ala. (AP) - A massive storm system whipping up severe winds and spawning tornadoes cut a path across th...

In Selma, Alabama, a twister damaged buildings and tossed cars in the streets of the historic city’s downtown. Authorities said a clearer picture of the extent of the damage would come Friday (Jan. (AP) — A massive storm system whipping up severe winds and spawning tornadoes cut a path across the U.S.