How many tornadoes hit Alabama overnight? Storm surveys ongoing
The National Weather Service is surveying damage across Alabama after a round of mostly overnight severe storms.
Those storms had moved out of Alabama as of Sunday morning, and no additional severe weather is expected today.
The overnight storms prompted numerous tornado warnings but also left widespread swaths of downed trees and power lines thanks to high wind gusts.
The weather service in Huntsville said storm surveys are planned for areas near Russellville, Tuscumbia, Rogersville and Boaz. Multiple damage reports came from those areas late Saturday.
The weather service in Birmingham sent a storm survey team to southern Hale and Perry counties on Sunday to look at storm damage there after a tornado-warned storm moved through that area overnight.
The weather service also wants to look at damage in Montgomery, Macon, Elmore and Tallapoosa counties, but there was no timetable for those surveys.
South Alabama escaped most of the tornado-warned storms, but the weather service offices in both Mobile and Tallahassee, Fla., have received numerous reports of downed trees and power lines.
More than 110,000 power outages were still being reported in Alabama alone just before 10 a.m. on Sunday, according to PowerOutage.us.
The weather service survey teams will look at storm damage and determine if it was caused by a tornado or straight-line winds. If a tornado is confirmed it will be given a preliminary rating using the Enhanced Fujita scale, which ranges from EF-0 to EF-5.
Officials asked those across Alabama to let the weather service know if they have storm damage.
The weather service plans to release more information on what the survey teams find later today.