ALABAMA STATE- On Thursday, a tornado in Alabama killed one person and injured eight others. Hale County Emergency officials confirmed three people are in critical condition and five have minor injuries.
The National Weather Service confirmed that seconds before 3 p.m. a tornado touched down in Hale County. Later, few more tornadoes were reported in the state.
Earlier Thursday, the NWS had issued several tornado watches and warnings for large portions of the state. It said that the storm moving into the Birmingham area had a “history of producing tornadoes.”
As the storm moved across the state Thursday afternoon and evening, the NWS continued to update its warnings, tweeting, “Take shelter NOW!”
The National Weather Service’s weather prediction center tweeted that parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia could see flash flooding and severe weather through Thursday night.
