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Tornadoes touch down in Southeast; damage reported

31 Mar 2020, 10:34 am

At least two tornadoes touched down in the Southeast on Tuesday morning, and preliminary reports of damage accompanied those tornadoes.

WeatherNation field correspondent and meteorologist Brett Adair showed some of the damage from a likely tornado in Eufaula, Alabama from earlier on Tuesday:

One video showed a tornado moving through the Florida panhandle on Tuesday:

Another tornado was reported near Troy, Alabama, which is in the south-central portion of the state. Numerous tornado warnings were reported on Tuesday morning into early Tuesday afternoon, stretching from Mississippi to the Florida panhandle.

Damage was reported from a separate tornado in George County, Mississippi, which is in the far southeast corner of the state.

A mobile home was destroyed in the George County, Mississippi tornado. WeatherNation was told that the owner of the home was OK, despite the severe damage shown below:

 

 

 

 

At least two tornadoes had been reported by the Storm Prediction Center (SPC), as of Tuesday afternoon. More reports are likely to filter in once reports are compiled and confirmed later in the day.

This is part of a wide-ranging risk for severe storms across the Southeast, with all modes of severe weather possible with Tuesday’s storms. For more on the forecast specifically, Meteorologist Patrick Crawford has more here. Most of the storms, however, are expected to move offshore by Tuesday night, and calmer weather will be in place for most of the rest of the week.

This is a developing story and will be updated. Stay with WeatherNation for the latest on these dangerous storms.

Featured photo credit: Samantha Cooley-Eckhoff

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Chris Bianchi
Chris doesn't remember a time when that he didn't love the weather. When he was five years old, he wrote his first words, "Partly cloudy", in Ms. Benn's kindergarten class. According to Chris, it's been a love affair ever since, from teaching himself how to read forecast models at age 12, to landing at WeatherNation. Growing up in Greenwich, Connecticut, he started to go after his lifelong drea... Load Morem of becoming a meteorologist by predicting whether or not there would be snow days - turning him into Greenwich High School's "defacto weatherman". He turned that snow day-predicting website into a front page story a local newspaper, which in turn earned him a look at WABC-TV in New York, where Chris did the weather live on-air at the age of 16. He attended Boston University, where he continued being a "weather nerd", performing weather updates on the campus radio and TV stations, and doing the daily forecasts for the student newspaper. Following his studies at BU, Chris worked at Mile High Sports and ESPN Denver for four years while pursuing his certification in Broadcast Meteorology from Mississippi State University. Chris is a huge sports fan, rooting for the Rockies, Nuggets, Broncos, Avalanche and UConn. He frequently find links between sports and weather, including an investigative analysis he did in 2013, finding trends between Peyton Manning's play and game time temperature (he doesn't like the cold). Chris also enjoys running, playing any sport, socializing and periodically overeating at all-you-can-eat buffets.

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