A hug tornado in Selma, Alabama caused significant damage, the mayor said, as another round of major storms raked the southeast.
A huge tornado that tore through the Alabama city of Selma Thursday caused "significant damage," Selma's mayor said.A huge tornado that tore through the Alabama city of Selma Thursday caused "significant damage," Selma's mayor said -- one of more than a dozen twister reports made in that state alone as severe storms tear through the Southeast leaving several injured.
The storm "tore up" Selma resident Krishun Moore's house, but no one there was injured, she told CNN. She took shelter in a bathroom with her mother.Photos that Priscilla Lewis shared with CNN show fallen power poles, debris strewn on the road and heavy damage to at least one building.Other photos, taken by Kenneth Martin, show the damage from the air. One shows a large building with what appears to be a major roof collapse.
By early afternoon, tornado watches covered parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, the western Florida Panhandle and far western North Carolina with various expirations. Streets and fields were littered with debris and downed power lines in Decatur, a Morgan County community roughly 25 miles southwest of Huntsville, pictures from city police and the county sheriff's department showed.
Several preliminary tornado reports were made in the morning in Alabama, including in northwestern Alabama's Winston County and western Alabama's Sumter County, where building damage was reported, the weather service said. In northeastern Mississippi's Monroe County, several rural buildings lay flattened or severely damaged after a storm passed through Thursday morning, video tweeted by the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency shows.
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