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More than 30 tornadoes hit several US states. in the south of the country, leaving at least 7 dead

2023-01-13T13:02:33.388Z


Strong tornadoes left damaged power lines, severed tree limbs and debris-strewn streets in Alabama, Georgia and Kentucky, where there were at least 35 preliminary reports of tornadoes.


They report considerable damage after the passage of a tornado in Alabama 1:02

(CNN) --

At least seven people, including a child, died Thursday as severe storms ripped through the southern United States, where ferocious winds sent residents running for cover.

The winds blew roofs off houses and left thousands of people without power.

Strong tornadoes left damaged power lines, severed tree limbs and debris littered streets in Alabama, Georgia and Kentucky, where at least 35 preliminary tornado reports had been reported as of Thursday night, according to the Storm Prediction Center.

Six people died in Autauga County, central Alabama, where search efforts will continue Friday, county coroner Buster Barber told CNN.

"My prayers are with their loved ones and their communities," Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said in a tweet.

“We are all too familiar with devastating weather, but our people are resilient.

We will get through it and be stronger for it.”

A 5-year-old boy died in Butts County, Georgia, after a tree fell on a car, county coroner Lacey Prue told CNN affiliate WSB.

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In Selma, Alabama, known for its role in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s and home to about 17,000 people, the storms left a trail of widespread destruction.

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Damage from businesses affected by a tornado that tore through downtown Selma, Alabama, is scattered across the ground Thursday.

(Credit: Butch Dill/AP)

Krishun Moore's home was destroyed when a storm swept through her neighborhood. She and her mother took refuge in her bathroom, she said.

"All we heard was wind and the whole house was shaking," Moore told CNN, adding that no one was hurt.

At a Selma tax office, Deborah A. Brown said she and others had to run for safety after seeing what looked like a tornado rolling down the street.

“We could have walked away, all of us,” Brown said in a Facebook video.

“We had to run for cover.

We had to go run and go into the closet.”

This was some of the damage caused by the storm in Selma, Alabama on January 12, 2023. (Credit: Courtesy of Mike Pitts)

Strong storms on Thursday left more than 50,000 homes and businesses in Georgia, Alabama and North Carolina in the dark, according to information from the monitoring site Poweroutage.us early Friday morning.

Selma Mayor James Perkins Jr. has asked residents to conserve water as their treatment facilities are affected by power outages.

“We have to layer up and prepare,” Perkins said as temperatures in the area began to drop, with overnight lows for the next few days that could even dip below freezing.

The governors of Alabama and Georgia declared states of emergency in the affected areas to help with rescue and cleanup efforts.

“We always keep in mind that while weather events are intriguing from a scientific perspective, they can have profound and long-lasting effects on people.

Our thoughts are with those affected by today's severe weather," the National Weather Service in Birmingham said in a tweet.

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Tornado damage will take days to inspect

Cordel Tyus and Devo McGraw sit on the roof that fell off an industrial building and engulfed their home Thursday after a tornado ripped through Selma, Alabama.

(Credit: Mickey Welsh/USA Today/Reuters)

In addition to the destruction caused by tornadoes and powerful storms, damaging winds lashed the region from Mississippi to Virginia.

In northeast Mississippi, several buildings were leveled or severely damaged in Monroe County after a storm passed Thursday morning, video tweeted by the state emergency management agency shows.

No injuries were reported there, the agency said.

A tornado in Alabama reportedly stayed on the ground for at least 50 miles and inflicted damage on seven counties, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Gerald Satterwhite.

"It was a pretty significant tornado," Satterwhite told CNN, adding that debris was thrown into the air 2 to 2.8 miles.

Damage from the tornado in Dallas County, Selma's home, spread throughout the county, Coroner William Alan Dailey said in a video conference.

Priscilla Lewis, who shared photos of the damage in Selma with CNN, said the damage made it nearly impossible to get out of downtown on Thursday.

No deaths were reported in Dallas County as of Thursday, but some residents suffered injuries.

“This is a disaster area.

Power lines and trees are down, this is really dangerous," Dallas County Probate Judge Jimmy Nunn said during a news conference.

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This house was left damaged after severe weather on January 12 near Prattville, Alabama. (Vasha Hunt/AP)

In Autauga County, at least 20 homes were damaged or destroyed, according to Gary Weaver, deputy director of the county's emergency management agency.

Multiple damage survey teams will be in the field over the next few days across the area, the National Weather Service in Birmingham said.

Throughout the southern and central US, there were more than 160 reports of damaging winds in Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia.

Additionally, 19 reports of severe hail were recorded in Kentucky, Ohio, Alabama, West Virginia, Mississippi, Tennessee and Georgia.

The storms are the latest episode of severe weather to turn deadly in the United States, as many experts point to the adverse impacts of human-induced climate change as the cause of such extreme events.

Millions of people in California are recovering from torrential rains that flooded many areas across the state, killing at least 18 people and leaving thousands without power.

Storms left some students stranded in schools

Due to the extensive impact of the storms on some highways in Georgia, some students were unable to leave four middle schools south of Atlanta, their school system said Thursday night.

By Friday morning, more than two dozen students were reunited with their families, the Griffin-Spalding County School System said in a social media post, after being told to take shelter on school grounds. because storm debris blocked access to roads.

Spalding County, where the school district is located, declared a state of emergency Thursday due to a reported tornado in the community, authorities said on Facebook, urging residents to take shelter indoors.

Parts of the state were under a tornado watch Thursday night.

“When they start coming onto the roads, there's going to be no way to get where you're going,” said TJ Imberger, Spalding County public works director.

The Griffin-Spalding School District will be closed this Friday as the area recovers from severe storms.

-- CNN's Tina Burnside, Haley Brink, Melissa Alonso, Paul P. Murphy and Amanda Jackson contributed to this report.

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