In Kentucky, the National Weather Service in Louisville confirmed that an EF-1 tornado struck Mercer County and said crews were surveying damage in a handful of other counties. “It was a 100% God thing that it turned right before it hit my house.” She said it got less than a mile (less than 2 kilometers) from her home before suddenly turning. Malesha McVay drove parallel to the tornado with her family. Both of them are OK, she said through Facebook messenger. She estimated the kids were about 1 and 4 years old. She and her mother encouraged the kids to keep screaming until they found the two of them on top of the roof of a damaged apartment. It was a flashpoint of the civil rights movement and where Alabama state troopers viciously attacked Black people advocating for voting rights as they marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965.Īfter the tornado passed, Krishun Moore emerged from her home to the sound of children crying and screaming. It’s like something you see on TV,” Moore said of all the destruction.Ī city of about 18,000 people, Selma is about 50 miles (80 kilometers) west of the Alabama capital of Montgomery. However, the reports were not yet confirmed and some of them could later be classified as wind damage after assessments are done in coming days. Nationwide, there were 33 separate tornado reports Thursday from the National Weather Service as of Thursday evening, with a handful of tornado warnings still in effect in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. Those systems enroll a total of 90,000 students. School systems in at least six Georgia counties on the southern fringes of metro Atlanta canceled classes on Friday. The city of Griffin imposed a curfew from 10 p.m.

A high school was damaged, and students were held at four middle schools for parents to pick up after officials determined it was unsafe to run buses.

Firefighters also cut a Griffin man loose who had been pinned for hours under a tree that fell on his house. Officials in Griffin, south of Atlanta, told local news outlets that multiple people had been trapped inside an apartment complex after trees fell on it.

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