Tornado alerts were issued for parts of Georgia, Alabama, Florida and North Carolina early Wednesday as the deadly slow-moving storm system brought more extreme weather to the Deep South.
Alerts were in place for Chatham, Durham and Orange counties in North Carolina until 5:30 a.m. ET, Miller County in Georgia until 4:45 a.m. ET, Houston County in southeast Alabama until 3 a.m. local time (4 a.m. ET) and Jackson County in northwest Florida until 3 a.m local time (4 a.m. ET), The Weather Channel reported.
The region has been struck by a string of tornadoes in recent days – all caused by a weather system that has killed at least 35 people in six states since Sunday.
At least four tornadoes were confirmed to have touched down Tuesday afternoon and evening in Cumberland, Craven, Jones and Edgecombe counties in North Carolina, and reported funnel clouds were being reviewed in several counties in Mississippi and Florida, the National Weather Service said.
Tornado watches spread across almost a quarter of the U.S. on Tuesday night, in a wide band of the Midwest and the Atlantic Coast stretching from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico.
The same storm system dumped more than 21 inches of rain on Pensacola, Florida, during a 23-hour period.
- Alastair Jamieson and M. Alex Johnson
First published April 30 2014, 1:21 AM
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