The city of Selma, Alabama, “has received significant damage' from a tornado, according to the mayor. It comes as severe storms sweep across the Southeast.
[Breaking news update, posted at 2:23 p.m ET] The city of Selma, Alabama, “has received significant damage Thursday from a tornado,” Mayor James Perkins Jr. said in a Facebook post. The mayor asked residents to “please refrain from traveling the roadways and stay away from down power lines.” “City crews will be out as soon as practical to clean up. In the meantime, stay safe and continue to report your damages through 911,” the post reads.
More than 35 million people in the Southeast and the Ohio Valley – from Louisiana eastward to the Carolinas and from Kentucky south to the Gulf Coast – are under some level of threat for severe storms Thursday that could include damaging wind gusts and tornadoes, the Storm Prediction Center said. By early afternoon, tornado watches covered parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, the western Florida Panhandle and far western North Carolina with various expirations.
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