SELMA, Ala. — A big twister broken properties and uprooted timber in Alabama Thursday as a strong storm system pushed by the South.

The National Weather Service in Birmingham mentioned a “large and extremely dangerous tornado” triggered injury because it moved by Selma.

The climate service issued a twister emergency for a number of counties simply north of the capital metropolis of Montgomery as the identical storm system moved eastward. “This is a life-threatening situation. Take shelter immediately,” the Weather Service mentioned of the reported twister.

The climate service mentioned there are conformed stories of tree and structural injury in Selma and stories of injury in different counties.

Former state Sen. Hank Sanders mentioned he has been informed there may be injury “all over Selma.”

“A tornado has definitely damaged Selma. In fact, it hit our house, but not head-on. It blew out windows in the bedroom and in the living room. It is raining through the roof in the kitchen,” Sanders mentioned.

Selma Mayor James Perkins informed WSFA that least one particular person is believed trapped in a constructing on Broad Street and presumably one different particular person is lacking. There are a number of downed powerlines, and it’s thought of an emergency scenario.

There had been a number of twister warnings issued Thursday in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee because the storm system moved by the area.

In Kentucky, the National Weather Service in Louisville confirmed that an EF-1 twister struck Mercer County and mentioned crews had been surveying injury in a handful of different counties. There had been stories of downed timber, energy outages and different scattered injury from storms that moved by the state.