No deaths or injuries were reported in the county, Austin said. In the same county, a church’s steeple was blown off and a grocery store was damaged in the community of Steens on Tuesday evening, Cindy Lawrence, the county’s head of emergency management, told CNN. “We were successful in getting (to) some people that had to hunker down in their homes that were messed up,” Austin told CNN on Wednesday.Ī steeple was blown off a church in the community of Steens, Mississippi, after a strong storm moved through the area Tuesday. Volunteer firefighters helped some people who found themselves trapped in damaged buildings, Lowndes County Fire Coordinator Neil Austin said. I hope for a trailer,” Perkins, a resident of the county for 34 years, said. … As old as I am, I don’t think about building a house. “I hope I can afford a trailer to get back in. The storm, which might have included a tornado, sounded “like a train coming through,” Perkins told CNN on Wednesday. In Lowndes County east of Starkville, a tree fell through Mary Perkins’ trailer home, virtually slicing it in half. In Sumiton just outside Birmingham, a commercial building’s roof was blown off and struck a house, city officials said. No injuries were immediately reported in Akron, county emergency management Director Russell Weeden said. One fallen tree rested on a home’s roof, images from WBMA and CNN affiliate WVTM showed. In nearby Hale County, many trees and some homes were damaged in the small town of Akron. Mays said their home was badly damaged, but they are hoping to save some of their belongings. They were hit by small bits of debris, like insulation and wood chips from their rabbit’s cage, and one of his sons got a scratch on his leg. Joe Mays, his wife Ashley, and their three sons took shelter in a small hallway on Tuesday night as a storm badly damaged their home in Tallassee, Alabama. The update was based on the survey of significant tree damage and downed high-tension power lines in the area, the assessment noted. The weather service upgraded the tornado to an EF-2 with 115 mph winds late Wednesday. Tornadoes also are believed to have caused damage in the western and southwestern parts of the state, according to the service. The tornado that killed two in the Flatwood area near Montgomery had winds estimated at 110 mph, the National Weather Service said. Winds also knocked down trees in Tennessee and Georgia. We pray for our community as we mourn this tragic loss of lives,” Thornton said.Īt least 30 tornado reports have been made since Tuesday afternoon, mostly in central and southern Mississippi and Alabama, as well as in Louisiana, the Storm Prediction Center said. “Thanks to the heroic efforts of our first responders many other lives were saved. Two people were killed and at least one other was injured when a tornado hit Wednesday morning in the Flatwood area near Alabama’s capital, Montgomery County Emergency Management Director Christina Thornton told CNN. Tornadoes in the Southeast are getting worse and they're often the deadliest
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