Five Years Later: Remembering the deadly Lee County tornado
Sunday, March 3, marks five years since an EF-4 tornado hit Lee County, killing 23 people.
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Remembering the Deadly Lee County Tornado, Two Years Later
March 3, 2019, is a date that will be remembered forever by countless people in Lee County. That’s the day an EF-4 tornado, with winds up to 170 mph, hit the Beauregard community. The storm killed 23 people. Two years later, people in Lee County took time to remember those killed and those who were lucky to survive. Even today,…
Two-Year Anniversary Memorials For the Lee County Tornado
Two years ago on March 3, 2019, at 2:03 p.m., tragedy came down on Lee County in the form of a 170-mile per hour EF-4 tornado. 23 people were killed. When the storm was over, the tornado left nothing but destruction and loss in its wake, especially in the Beauregard area south of Auburn. Now just two years after,…
Lessons Learned from Lee County Tornado
Emergency officials from across the state have been in Prattville for three days for the 2019 Alabama Disaster Preparedness Conference. Today, one of the topics discussed was what can be learned from the EF-4 tornado that hit Lee County in March. Meteorologists determined that the tornado brought 170 mph winds and left a track almost a mile wide. The storm…
Lee County Tornado: Latest on Search and Recovery Efforts
Alabama News Network is in the Lee County community of Beauregard with the latest on search and recovery efforts after Sunday’s tornado. The death toll remains at 23, with 22 of those pronounced dead at the scene and another person dying at a hospital. Emergency crews still haven’t finished combing through all of the damage. As of early Monday afternoon,…
Lee County Tornado: Rated EF-4 with 170 mph Winds
The National Weather Service now says the Lee County tornado that killed at least 23 people in the Beauregard community was stronger than first thought. It says the tornado was an EF-4 with winds estimated at 170 mph. The tornado is the deadliest in the U.S. since 2013. The National Weather Service has teams surveying the damage. It appears the…
