Tornado

The system spawned a tornado that shredded homes, toppled roofs and uprooted trees in Selma, Ala.

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. Malesha McVay drove parallel to the tornado with her family. 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 tornado debris signature is now showing up on the Greensboro storm. The NWS is upgrading to a CONFIRMED Tornado Warning. ORIGINAL POST Very strong rotation ...

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Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said Thursday evening there have been six deaths in the state following the severe weather outbreak that spawned more than two dozen ...

Trees came down and there was a leak in the gym, Griffin-Spalding School District spokesperson Adam Pugh said. The tornadoes touched down in Henry, Mercer and Boyle counties. In addition to the dozens of tornado reports, the National Weather Service also logged more than 140 wind reports. The weather service preliminarily The National Weather Service preliminarily The damage goes from “one side of Dallas County to the other,” he said during a video news conference. Brown’s video shows a huge debris pile dragging power lines down to the ground. We had to go run and jump in the closet.” Parts of North Carolina were under a severe thunderstorm warning. Autauga County is just east of Dallas County, where a huge tornado ripped through the city of Selma on Thursday afternoon. The tornado was likely an EF-2 or EF-3, he added. “We had to run for cover.

A tornado ripped through Selma, Alabama and Autauga County, leaving at least 6 dead. One person died in Georgia as severe weather rocked the South.

] [Potential tornado damage reported in Kentucky, Mississippi] [In Kentucky, the National Weather Service in Louisville confirmed an EF-1 tornado struck Mercer County and said crews were surveying damage in a handful of other counties.] [In Monroe County, Mississippi Emergency Management Agency officials said they were surveying some severe damage after a potential tornado.] At least one person was believed to be trapped in Selma County, but no deaths were reported in Selma County as of Thursday evening. [Power outages reported across Alabama, Georgia] [More than 36,000 customers were without power in Alabama and more than 76,000 were in the dark in Georgia as of 9 p.m. He rode out the storm in his basement and was relieved to find no damage to his house. [6 dead in Alabama after tornado hits Autauga County] [Several tornadoes were reported across central Alabama Thursday, but a ] [confirmed twister ](https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/local/2023/01/12/national-weather-service-montgomery-under-tornado-watch/69802582007/)killed at least six people in Autauga County, officials said. Officials estimate that 40 to 50 homes were damaged or destroyed by storms that cut a strip across the county, according to Ernie Baggett, the emergency management director in Autauga County. ] [Elsewhere in the county, the force of the storm appeared to have knocked a freight train off its tracks, blocking intersections in the area. The six people, who haven't been identified, were killed in Autauga County, about 40 miles northeast of Selma, according to Autauga County Sheriff David Hill. Cars were on their side and traffic poles were strewn about in the downtown area. In Selma, Alabama, a tornado tore a path through the downtown area causing buildings to collapse, cars to flip, and mangled power lines. The city of Griffin imposed a curfew from 10 p.m. A series of tornadoes and storms that ripped through central Alabama killed at least six.

* Until 415 PM CST. * At 317 PM CST, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located near Ariton, or 8 miles south of Brundidge, moving east at ...

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Mientras tanto, el tiempo severo que generó tornados en todo el sur causó múltiples muertes en el condado de Autauga, Alabama, indicó un forense a CNN. “Tenemos ...

El segundo es para el noreste de Georgia, el oeste de Carolina del Norte y el oeste y el centro de Carolina del Sur hasta las 10 p.m. Hubo advertencia de tornado para la parte sur de Atlanta, luego de que se identificara un tornado sobre East Point, según el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional. No se reportaron heridos allí, según la agencia, que indicó que un tornado podría haber causado el daño. El primero es para el sureste de Alabama, el suroeste de Georgia y el suroeste de Florida hasta las 9 p.m. El Servicio Meteorológico Nacional Ha habido un impacto mínimo en el aeropuerto. hora de Miami) y continuó hacia el este, indicó el servicio. Lo que parecía ser una enorme nube de embudo pasó por el área, según imágenes compartidas por Mike Pitts. “Tenemos múltiples muertes y seguimos buscando cuerpos”, señaló el forense del condado de Autauga, Buster Barber, en una entrevista telefónica. en una publicación de Facebook. Esto determinará la longitud, el ancho y la fuerza exactos del tornado. “Estuvo en el suelo durante bastante tiempo”, indicó Satterwhite.

Los bomberos locales en Selma respondieron a un incendio estructural en un almacén ubicado en JL Chestnut Avenue el jueves por la tarde. El “tornado grande y ...

Hubo informes de árboles caídos, cortes de energía y otros daños dispersos por las tormentas que se desplazaron por el estado. Refúgiese de inmediato”, dijo el servicio meteorológico sobre el tornado reportado. Enormes piezas de aislamiento y metal estaban envueltas alrededor del tronco de un árbol, y las ramas caídas de los árboles oscurecían un letrero que proclamaba «BIENVENIDOS A LA SELMA HISTÓRICA». La policía estatal de Alabama atacó brutalmente a los negros que defendían el derecho al voto mientras marchaban por el puente Edmund Pettus el 7 de marzo de 1965. Más de 50,000 clientes se quedaron sin electricidad en Alabama, según PowerOutage.us, que rastrea los apagones en todo el país. Columnas de humo negro y denso se elevaban sobre la ciudad desde un incendio ardiendo.

Mientras tanto, el tiempo severo que generó tornados en todo el sur causó múltiples muertes en el condado de Autauga, Alabama, indicó un forense a CNN. “Tenemos ...

El daño se ve fuera de un hotel en Decatur, Alabama, el jueves por la mañana. El segundo es para el noreste de Georgia, el oeste de Carolina del Norte y el oeste y el centro de Carolina del Sur hasta las 10 p.m. Hubo advertencia de tornado para la parte sur de Atlanta, luego de que se identificara un tornado sobre East Point, según el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional. No se reportaron heridos allí, según la agencia, que indicó que un tornado podría haber causado el daño. El Servicio Meteorológico Nacional atribuyó preliminarmente el daño de Decatur a los fuertes vientos. El primero es para el sureste de Alabama, el suroeste de Georgia y el suroeste de Florida hasta las 9 p.m. Lo que parecía ser una enorme nube de embudo pasó por el área, según imágenes compartidas por Mike Pitts. “Tenemos múltiples muertes y seguimos buscando cuerpos”, señaló el forense del condado de Autauga, Buster Barber, en una entrevista telefónica. hora de Miami) y continuó hacia el este, indicó el servicio. en una publicación de Facebook. Esto determinará la longitud, el ancho y la fuerza exactos del tornado. “Estuvo en el suelo durante bastante tiempo”, indicó Satterwhite.

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.

Al menos 6 personas en Alabama y otra más en Georgia fallecieron después de que una serie de poderosos tornados y tormentas azotaran varias regiones del sur ...

Jackson dijo que el impacto de los vientos contra su casa se sintió “como la explosión de una bomba”, según describió al sitio Alabama Local News. Por otro lado, Malesha McVay conducía con su familia no muy lejos de uno de los tornados. La tormenta azotó Griffin, en el sur de Atlanta, y los vientos dañaron un área comercial, informaron los medios locales. La ciudad fue uno de los puntos álgidos del movimiento por los derechos civiles durante los años sesenta. En el mismo condado, al sureste de Atlanta, la tormenta también descarriló un tren de carga, dijeron las autoridades. Es peligroso andar en las calles”, afirmó.

El alcalde James Perkins Jr. informó a través de su cuenta en Facebook que la ciudad de Selma, Alabama, "recibió daños significativos el jueves por un ...

El Distrito Escolar de Selma alentó a través de su cuenta de Facebook a las personas a que se abstengan "de intentar revisar a los estudiantes". Las escuelas han tomado las precauciones necesarias para garantizar la seguridad de todos nuestros estudiantes", agregó. "Los equipos de la ciudad saldrán tan pronto como sea práctico para limpiar.

A massive storm system whipping up severe winds and spawning tornadoes cut a path across the U.S. South, killing at least seven people in Georgia and ...

In Spalding County, south of Atlanta, the storm struck as mourners gathered for a wake at Peterson's Funeral Home in Griffin. Plumes of thick, black smoke from a fire rose over the city. That moisture hit the cold front, adding up to killer storms. That death brought the toll to seven in the county about 40 miles (64 kilometers) northeast of Selma. The other ingredient is moisture. Kemp surveyed some of the worst storm damage Friday by helicopter. But that’s not enough for a tornado outbreak. “It was very terrifying.” He said a parent who was driving suffered critical injuries. 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.” [A Pittsylvania County man wanted a barbecue sandwich.

Experts say a natural La Nina weather pattern, unusually warm moist air juiced by climate change, and long-term shift in where tornadoes hit all are factors ...

People and buildings are in the way. That is the ingredient that is usually missing this time of year.” La Nina winters tend to produce more tornadoes and NOAA this week said preliminary numbers show 1,331 tornadoes in 2022, which was a La Nina year, 9% more than average. But that’s not really the case in the East. Tornado activity is increasing most in Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa and parts of Ohio and Michigan. At this time of year, “shear is a guarantee,” said Harold Brooks, a senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Severe Storms Laboratory.

In Georgia and Alabama, rescuers were searching through wreckage for victims and survivors on Friday as communities tried to assess the destruction.

Hendrix said, pointing to the cats in a crate in the back of their sedan. “We’ve got to get to the middle of the house,” he told his wife. “We still had to get our two cats out of the house,” Mrs. “They said nobody could get to me,” he said. Perkins [said in a statement](https://www.facebook.com/SELMACITYHALL/posts/pfbid0iSMqf1tR4mSkmUHKRmZhKvP9HC4FDZcL8RGzguoLiU2Gve84ANq1Wv96kx7ak7udl) that the city had “received significant damage from the tornado.” Crews worked to restore electricity to thousands of customers across the region who had lost service. Across the region, officials were urging residents to stay off the roads, warning of the perils that linger even after the storm has passed. When he walked over to check on a neighbor’s house, he found his body on the ground by his truck. Still, the storm caused considerable damage in much of the city, raking through homes and businesses. She also visited Selma and Autauga County on Friday to survey the devastation. As the tornado descended on his home in central Alabama, he ran into a bathroom with his son while his wife crowded into a closet with their three grandchildren. Autauga County, which is near Montgomery, the state capital, sustained some of the worst of it; the authorities said that at least seven people were killed there.

Recovery and search efforts continued in the South on Friday, a day after severe storms and tornadoes raked the region, killing at least nine people, ...

Parts of the state were under a tornado watch Thursday night. Krishun Moore’s house in Selma was torn up when a storm sent her and her mother to shelter in their bathroom, she said. Damage in downtown Selma made it nearly impossible to leave the area Thursday, said Priscilla Lewis, who shared photos it with CNN. Wind intensity in neighboring Autauga County, meanwhile, was rated [EF-3](https://www.weather.gov/oun/efscale), meaning gusts of at least 136 mph – the weather service [ said](https://twitter.com/NWSBirmingham/status/1613970969621676032). In central Georgia’s Butts County, a 5-year-old was killed when a tree fell on top of a car, the county coroner’s office said. Millions in California are reeling from weeks of flooding rain that has [killed at least 18 people](https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/12/weather/california-flooding-atmospheric-river-thursday/index.html) and left thousands without power. “While these areas of damage were caused by the same storm, it is not yet known if there was a continuous path of damage,” the weather service said. A state employee also was killed by falling debris while responding to the storms, Gov. At a Selma tax office, Deborah Brown and others had to rush to safety after seeing what looked like a tornado rolling down the street, she said. EF-2 damage was found in three more nearby counties extending to the east, the weather service said, which added that the total number of tornadoes is still being determined. We’ve got a lot of work to do.” We had to go run and jump in the closet.”

Los servicios de emergencia trabajan afanosamente buscando personas atrapadas después de que varios tornados golpearan zonas del sur de EEUU, como parte de ...

En ese mismo condado, al sureste de Atlanta, la tormenta aparentemente provocó el descarrilamiento de un tren, afirmaron las autoridades. Las cuadrillas en el condado de Autauga encontraron un cadáver después del amanecer cerca de una casa que había sufrido daños graves, informaron las autoridades. Eso fue antes de que lo peor del mal tiempo atravesara Georgia en una ruta al sur de Atlanta.

Ten people were killed by the storms, eight in Alabama and two in Georgia, including a 5-year-old and a state employee responding to damage.

The National Weather Service received nearly three dozen reports of tornadoes concentrated in Alabama, Georgia and Kentucky. When Woods saw the tornado warning on the news, she followed her son’s instructions and ran to the bathroom to shelter in the tub, bringing some couch cushions with her to cover her head. By Friday afternoon, 15,000 customers in Alabama were without electricity, according to poweroutage.us, mostly along the storm’s path across the center of the state. “I was lucky,” said Woods, a mother of four, grandmother of nine, and great-grandmother of five. They stepped over shards of glass in the living room, across her destroyed porch and over felled power lines to load couches, bags of clothes and picture frames into pickup trucks and a massive U-Haul. She was in her home when the tornado ripped through. Brian Kemp (R) declared a state of emergency [for the entire state ](https://twitter.com/GovKemp/status/1613678728789245953?s=20&t=rHg4TuDNuvjUuMATsohDtA)in response to the extreme weather. “We’re going to be without power in this area for a long time because the distribution system is shot,” Perkins said at a news conference Friday afternoon. “It was this town that brought us the Voting Rights Act,” Rep. “The pile of debris that used to be my home, if you didn’t see the furniture in it you’d think it’d be a garbage dump,” said Barber, who was working in Old Kingston, a residential neighborhood in Autauga. [declared a state of emergency](https://twitter.com/GovernorKayIvey/status/1613667888849641472?s=20&t=gNb4Rh0ahy7p2xU2qCGx7g) in six counties where the tornado caused the most damage: Autauga, Chambers, Coosa, Dallas, Elmore and Tallapoosa. In Butts County, Ga., a 5-year-old boy was killed after a pine tree fell onto a car, the coroner there said.

Un patrón meteorológico del fenómeno de La Niña, el aire caliente y húmedo procedente de un Golfo de México inusualmente cálido —probablemente a ...

Pero ese no es realmente el caso en el este de Estados Unidos. En el Callejón de los Tornados, un tornado puede recorrer kilómetros y kilómetros y no golpear a nada ni a nadie y, por lo tanto, no ser un problema, agregó Brooks. El frente frío seguía una ondulación clásica en la corriente en chorro —los ríos atmosféricos que mueven los sistemas climáticos—, vista en los inviernos de La Niña, explicó Gensini. La actividad de los tornados está aumentando más en Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Luisiana, Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa y partes de Ohio y Michigan. Eso es más que suficiente para que haya uno. Ese es el ingrediente que suele faltar en esta época del año”.

The National Weather Service issued dozens of tornado watches and warnings Thursday across several states including Alabama and Georgia.

This was likely caused by the Gulf's unusually warm water. Firefighters rescued a Griffin man pinned for hours after a tree hit his home, officials told local news outlets. Kay Ivey declared a state of emergency amid the tornado threat. Brian Kemp, who issued a Georgia Gov. At least 35 possible tornado touchdowns were reported across the Southeast, Federal Emergency Management Agency officials said. Parts of the southeastern U.S. [Selma tornado puts a stop to everyday life](https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2023/01/13/selma-tornado-history-is-saved-but-survivors-need-help/69804398007/) [Drastic images capture the devastation from a series of storms in California](https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2023/01/12/california-flooding-rain-damage-before-after-images/11038686002/) [officials in Mississippi](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/weather/2023/01/12/southern-storms-deaths-alabama-tornado-damage/11041594002/) surveyed possible tornado damage in Monroe County Thursday. [Dallas and Autauga counties](https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/local/2023/01/12/national-weather-service-montgomery-under-tornado-watch/69802582007/) Thursday, killing at least seven people in Alabama. [7 dead in Alabama, Georgia after tornadoes, severe storms ravage Southeast](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/weather/2023/01/12/southern-storms-deaths-alabama-tornado-damage/11041594002/)

Tornadoes rip through South as deadly storms kill at least 9 · An EF2 tornado with an estimated peak wind speed of 125 mph was confirmed in Winston County, Ala.

County coroner Buster Barber [told CNN](https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/tornadoes-southeast-weather-01-12-23/h_a94a9f1e18405d1f02a53c1ea7e2727e) authorities were "still searching for bodies." We are far too familiar with devastating weather, but our people are resilient." "My prayers are with their loved ones and communities. The other death happened when a worker was killed responding the storm, per AP. - Two deaths were reported so far in Georgia. [per AP](https://apnews.com/article/tornadoes-natural-disasters-alabama-montgomery-selma-37e05f4ae4bc39a61a50243c92b2b82f?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_01). [tweeted](https://twitter.com/governorkayivey/status/1613708338084171776?s=61&t=BHWNAOi9fTzxH-cOeK3f-w) Thursday night. [Storm Prediction Center](https://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/230112_rpts.html). - The severe weather has led to massive power outages, too. [Thursday evening](https://twitter.com/wsfa_amanda/status/1613684407293845504?s=46&t=11wrp5sQHauXdxVnC_LQpw), [AP reports](https://apnews.com/article/tornadoes-disaster-planning-and-response-selma-alabama-climate-environment-7f9d8545a4ba04e3d398579b052d36dd). EF2-level damage was also confirmed in Selma and Greensboro. [PowerOutage.us](https://poweroutage.us/).

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.

Rescuers are racing to find survivors in the aftermath of a deadly storm system that barreled across parts of Georgia and Alabama.

Schools are closed. Buildings are decimated. Huge trees lay uprooted in the road. Wood, metal and personal belongings were in heaps, cars helplessly mangled ...

An EF-2 tornado touched down in the Flatwoods community of north Montgomery County on Nov. Nichols said workers stayed with the kids until well after dark while parents tried to find a clear path to them. Sherry Carter Mitchell was at the liquor store, where she works, when the tornado struck. He's asking people to keep Selma in their thoughts and prayers but to also consider donating money to churches and the Red Cross. We give God the credit for a miracle that they were all safe." “If there’s no need for you to be in town, please stay at home,” said Jimmy Nunn, the probate judge and chairman of the Dallas County commission. A few hours later Morgan Allday was praying with her husband as a tornado barreled toward the daycare. asked for volunteers come to the city and clear debris from people’s homes and businesses, as the city cannot work on private land. Kay Ivey has declared Selma to be in a state of emergency and planned to tour the damage Friday. If people move the debris to the street, city workers can clear it, he said. The National Weather Service said Friday afternoon that its preliminary surveys indicated a single storm cell spawned a tornado that was at least an EF-2 in Selma, and at least an EF-3 in Autauga County, where seven people where killed. The twister tore parts of the roof off and busted out the windows of Folmar's house.