Alabama Tornado Slams Church and Daycare Center; At Least 3 Dead

At least a dozen more were injured in storms that raged in parts of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee according to the National Weather Service.

A tornado in Jackson County, Alabama, killed three people when it tore through a mobile home park.

The EF-2 tornado packed 127-mph winds over a distance of just 200 yards, but that was enough to claim the lives of three people sheltering down in a mobile home in the community of Rosalie, officials said.

Several dozen others were injured in Tennessee, including at least 20 people in McMinn County, ABC affiliate WATE reported.

The National Weather Service was assessing damage from multiple possible tornadoes across the region. That’s where three people were found dead and another was discovered critically injured.

According to Accuweather.com, the greatest risk of tornadoes extended from central and northeastern Louisiana to western and northern MS and part of southwestern Tennessee.

“Nighttime tornadoes can be particularly unsafe since they are hard to see and can be quick-moving, all while many people are asleep”, the National Weather Service said in a statement.

Forecasters also said storms could produce straight-line winds above 60 miles per hour.

“Hail of that size is more usual with storms in the plains, but not rare in central Mississippi”.

Of those customers, 3,300 are in Alabama’s western counties.

Scattered damage was reported in 25 counties, including roofs blown off houses in the rural, east-Mississippi community of Nanih Waiya and an apartment complex in Columbus.

Alabama Power crews restore outages after storm damage.

Across the state in Colbert County, home to the famed recording hotbed of Muscle Shoals, emergency responders had begun trying to determine how many homes were destroyed.

During the severe weather event, the National Weather Service issued five tornado warnings and five severe thunderstorm warnings in Middle Tennessee. The tornado watch was lifted early for the area as a steady rain settled in. No details were immediately available. On Wednesday afternoon, a second round of storms spawned at least two more tornadoes in the Atlanta metroplex, in Carroll County southwest of the city and in Cobb County near the Six Flags theme park.