At least nine fatalities were confirmed following a severe weather outbreak that spawned dozens of destructive tornadoes across the southern United States on Thursday, including in the historic city of Selma, Alabama.
States of emergency were declared in Alabama and Georgia after the storms uprooted trees, ripped roofs off homes and knocked the power out for thousands of people.
In Autauga County, Alabama, located just northwest of Montgomery, at least six fatalities were confirmed after a tornado created widespread damage in the county, according to the Autauga County Sheriff’s Office.
As search and rescue operations continued into Friday, the death toll in Autauga County rose to seven, WSFA reported. A woman who was initially reported missing was pronounced dead when her body was located early Friday morning, according to the Autauga County Sheriff’s Office.
Autauga County Emergency Management Director Ernie Baggett told AccuWeather National Reporter Jillian Angeline the twister carved a 20-mile-long path through the county on Thursday. Baggett noted that most of the people who died were in mobile homes during the storm and that search and rescue operations would resume on Friday morning.
“We don’t know for a fact [that] everyone has been accounted for,” Baggett said to Angeline. “It looks like we’ve got about 40 homes, maybe a few more, that have been either destroyed or [have] major damage.”
In Butts County, Georgia, southeast of Atlanta, an additional fatality was reported when a tree fell onto a vehicle, hitting both the mother and six-year-old boy in the car. The six-year-old boy died from the accident, and the mother was taken to a hospital but has since been released, FOX5 Atlanta reported.
The second fatality in Georgia was a state Department of Transportation worker who was killed while responding to storm damage, according to The Associated Press.
Read more: https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/at-least-9-dead-after-tornadoes-rip-across-the-south/1468034
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Thats only a ef3 imagine if it was a ef4 or ef5
Sweet home Alabama
It’s tearing some stuff up…. Oh shit I live over there😮
1:53 1/05/2018?????????
If you think it looks bad now, you should have seen it before the tornado.
1:24 whats the name of this song? I would Shazam it but my speakers are toast so I use earphones. Gorgeous song. Never mind. I spent a second looking at comments and found it lol
You know somebody in a southern tornado outbreak is gonna be filming from a Wal-Mart.
It was sooo scary. I told my daughter bad weather was coming and to go to work early. She made it in time and then lights out for us all. Praying everyone impacted as well as for the many service technicians who risked their lives to help restore our services and heat. RIP to the young man who passed after a work related incident. My heart goes out to his family and the others who lost their lives.
OAN… be careful walking outside afterwards. I was cringing seeing ppl walk aimlessly with water and downed power lines on the ground. I had to tell my son to put on clothes and shoes during this storm. Be prepared to move.
I wish we had better policies and better evacuation shelters and processes. I’m going to start an evacuation package drive for future outbreaks. Every other year we see so many Floridians and other coastal residents in our area during these seasons. There are so many after Christmas blankets deals. Walmart has some for $.75. Grab a few in case someone needs it. I couldn’t think of a reason then. Hopefully, there are some when I get there. I might call the stores. I also found LED Christmas Candles at CVS 90% off. With batteries, these are better than candles. It’s time to be proactive and not reactive.
God bless you all and please stay safe. 🙏🏾♥️♥️♥️
Visit this site for resources on how to be prepared.
http://www.ready.gov
Multi-vortex tornado.
At 10:35 what a weird, raggedy-ass looking tornado. Creepy.
Yooo. The fact it hits selma is sus
I was in one of the tornadoes that hit like a week or so prior to this outbreak. I happened to be asleep when it all happened. I awoke to alerts from my phone, and everything just started blowing sideways. I've been in tornadoes before, and the amount of pressure you feel from it is insane. The noise it makes, and it moves by so quick. It's nothing like in the movies. Of course we have the rain wrapped tornadoes, so they don't look that bad like the ones out west. Prayers to everyone affected.
If you are going to start fabricating stuff at least have the decency to hide the deception or I'm going to remove my subscription. See 2:00 in and look at the bottom of the screen. I believe that is 01:25:08 (PM) on 01/05/2018.
Why would you keep driving into that? And, why would you not backout of that?
Is that a first time occur at that place?, seems like they never see a tornado infront on their eyes
Please, start using better building materials, is pathetic that a supposedly first world country has house basically as sturdy as huts in Africa.
Yesss, I ignored other comps waiting for this one
#300👍It pays to build a home to take the worst weather likely to hit your State. Tragic!!
God please thats bad f3
Prayers for the survived
The only way to build a house in these areas is if it is reinforced concrete and with a solid foundation and the windows will be fitted with metal shutters and the roof will be flat.
Maybe it's not nice …. but it's safe !
Any other construction is destined one day or another to be destroyed like a house of cards!!
And all power lines must be underground of course 😀
14:22 just don't shop nor talk to nobody like that in Walmart
I hope that crying baby was ok. I was wondering if they have sirens in the town? I didn’t hear any.
Out there you got a lot of empty corn fields
Looks like our water rivers in Canada 😅😅
2:39 Song is Luminous – Crescent Moon for those wondering. Very nice and relaxing while you are being hit by a twister for sure.
I guess we all waited for that one. Great Job as usual