Sunday’s tornadoes were the deadliest in the United States since May 20, 2013, when a category EF-5 tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, killing 24 people and leaving more than 200 injured
The first thing Scott Fillmer noticed was the overwhelming smell of pine trees. The trees littered his front yard just outside Beauregard, Alabama, after deadly tornadoes whipped through Lee County on Sunday afternoon.
This was by far the hardest hit area on our road, Capps’ house in the distance looks destroyed, cars are flipped, every tree in this swath is gone. #Tornado in Beauregard. @spann pic.twitter.com/UkgRiIwyVHJones said he fears the death toll may continue to rise as recovery efforts continued in the early morning Monday. Rescuers were set to deploy infrared drones and helicopters to search for signs of life amid a wide swath of debris, which made initial rescue efforts difficult, Jones said.
The first tornado warnings for the area were issued at 1:58 p.m. local time. Just over an hour later, the National Weather Service reported that a “large & EXTREMELY DANGEROUS” tornado was on the ground near Dupree, Alabama, moving east. — Scott Fillmer March 3, 2019Jones told reporters that one of the tornadoes appeared to travel for at least several miles on the ground and was at least a quarter-mile wide,He watched it skip across Highway 51, a hulking gray rotating blob. All the yellow headlights whizzed past him, fleeing the storm, while Peake charged right toward it, about a quarter-mile from its path, he said.
— James Spann March 4, 2019It was hard to imagine what had become of all the people who lived there, he said.
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