How many tornadoes hit Alabama this weekend? Weather service to look at more storm damage

How many tornadoes hit Alabama this weekend? Weather service to look at more storm damage

The National Weather Service will continue to look at damage from weekend storms on Monday.

The weather service in Birmingham plans to send storm survey teams to Lee, Barbour and Henry counties to determine whether tornadoes touched down there on Sunday morning.

Meanwhile, work will continue to define two confirmed tornado tracks in the Birmingham metro area. The weather service on Sunday night said the south side of Jefferson County was hit with two short-lived EF-1 tornadoes with winds as high as 100 mph.

The storms did extensive damage in a swath from Bessemer northeastward to Mountain Brook, according to the weather service, but the actual tornado tracks were in the Homewood and Cahaba Heights areas.

Those storms rolled through Birmingham around midnight on Saturday, but severe weather also continued into Sunday morning in southeast Alabama.

The weather service issued tornado warnings for both Lee and Barbour counties on Sunday morning. Forecasters said radar picked up evidence of a TDS, or tornado debris signature, indicating debris was being lofted into the air and a good sign a tornado was on the ground.

The weather service will head to those two counties as well as Henry County today to look at the damage in person and determine if tornadoes were indeed to blame.

Henry County was also under a tornado warning on Sunday morning as storms rolled through.

If a tornado was confirmed it will be given a rating using the Enhanced Fujita Scale, which runs from EF-0 to EF-5.

The weather service said details on the storms — as well as additional details about the Jefferson County tornadoes — will be released when it becomes available.

No severe weather is in the forecast for Alabama through the work week.