The Associated Press
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. –– Tornadoes destroyed homes and overturned
cars in several areas of Alabama on Saturday and more than two
dozen people were reported injured.
At least one
person was killed in Tuscaloosa, said Debbie Watson, spokeswoman
for the Tuscaloosa County Emergency Management Agency.
Twisters struck
just before noon in the state's rural southeastern corner, then
hit Tuscaloosa and the northern part of the state as lines of
thunderstorms swept across the South.
The Tuscaloosa
twister struck a subdivision, Watson said. The National Weather
Service said there was extensive damage. Twenty-one people were
injured, according to broadcast reports.
Another tornado
hit Geneva, near the Alabama-Florida line, said Mayor Warren Beck.
He said vehicles were overturned and homes were destroyed.
Geneva County
Emergency Management Agency director Margaret Mixon said eight
people were injured, two of them severely.
That tornado
also damaged about a half-dozen homes in Dale County, destroying
a peanut mill at Abbeville and damaging a textile mill, authorities
said.
Dale County
Commissioner Buddy Stapleton said he counted about a half-dozen
homes hit near Newton.
In northern
Alabama, about eight homes were reported destroyed and trees and
power lines were toppled in Limestone County.
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