The City of Wetumpka is still recovering from an EF-2 tornado touched down Saturday. The hardest hit areas are still closed off to the public as the cleanup efforts are just now getting underway, but today we got a first hand look at the destruction left behind. Some cleanup crews have been working around the clock and there is still much…
Autuaga EMA officials say the county’s tornado warning systems have been repaired, but they are still advising residents in the area to take other precautions to stay weather aware. EMA Director Ernie Baggett says it was lightening that took out the counties tornado siren systems, for around 18 hours. Officials have so far only performed a ‘silent test’ and are waiting…
The National Weather Service confirms at least three tornadoes in Alabama from Sunday storms, and is surveying other parts of southern Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. A storm with estimated winds of 80 mph (130 kph) overturned five recreational vehicles at the Anchors Aweigh RV Resort near Foley after 3 p.m. The storm, with a 1.6-mile (2.6-kilometer) path, was rated…
The National Weather Service confirmed Tuesday afternoon that an EF0 tornado touched down in the northern part of Crenshaw County during Monday’s severe weather. But the NWS is also saying that tornado formed out of a macroburst of straight line winds that measured between 70 and 90 mph. Officials with the NWS say that macroburst is to blame for much of…
The deadly Tornado that claimed the life of 9 people, 8 of them students at Enterprise High School, prompted lawmakers to pass a law to protect students in the event of a tornado. The law requires new schools to have up to code storm shelters approved by the Alabama Building Commission. Carr Middle School, built in 2008 is equipped with…
It was ten years ago today that a F4 tornado hit Enterprise High School, killing a eight students who were sheltering in a hallway. A memorial marks the location of he school where the kids died. A new Enterprise High School was built at a different location. It, and all new high schools in the state, are now required to…
One of the homes in the RV Park was flipped over and smashed by the tornado. Storms are nothing new for Brian Jones. He was in an area hit by Hurricane Katrina, and didn’t think anything could be worse than that. After experiencing the tornado that tore through the Andalusia RV Park he lives in, he changed his mind. “Between…
Weather researchers say they expect about 40 scientists from around the nation to participate in “VORTEX Southeast,” an upcoming study of the unique characteristics of tornadoes that develop in the South. Like earlier studies in the Midwest, the research based in Huntsville, Alabama, will run through March and April and will include mobile radars, drones and other equipment that can…
The National Weather Service as confirmed a Tornado touched down Northwest Covington County in South Alabama at about 5 p.m. Monday afternoon. Sheriff’s officials say that a mobile home was destroyed, and a woman has been left with minor injuries. According to Alabama Power, several customers in Central Alabama are without power as of 5:22 p.m. 100 customers are without…
