At least 23 people were killed in one Alabama county after a series of tornadoes ripped through the state on Sunday. The victims include children, Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones says.
The powerful tornadoes that plowed through Lee County in Alabama and killed at least 23 people left a path of destruction that looked"as if someone had taken a blade and just scraped the ground," the county sheriff said Monday.
At daybreak, emergency crews and residents witnessed more of the aftermath of the twisters that Sheriff Jay Jones called"catastrophic," and the search was on for survivors and more victims.It appears that some people had only a five-minute warning Sunday afternoon before tornadoes ripped through the region. .m-infographic--1551704642681 { background: url no-repeat 0 0 transparent; margin-bottom: 30px; padding-top: 121.
— NWS Birmingham March 4, 2019 How the destruction unfoldedA house in Beauregard after a tornado hit Sunday.Alabama's deadliest since 2011The 23 deaths reported on Sunday marked the deadliest day for tornadoes in Alabama since the Tuscaloosa-Birmingham tornado that killed more than 200 people in 2011.The victims, including children, died in Lee County, Jones said. At least 12 of those deaths occurred in an area about 5 to 6 miles south of the city of Opelika, he said.
— NWS March 4, 2019 The tornadoes are part of the same system that is bringing winter weather to much of the eastern United States this week, Norman said. The NWS warned on Twitter that severe weather would continue into early Monday over the Southeast, with damaging winds, large hail, and isolated tornadoes possible.CNN's Dakin Andone, Hollie Silverman, Brandon Miller, Rashard Rose and Shawn Nottingham contributed to this report.
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