Overnight storms leave damage behind across Alabama

Alabama was covered with severe weather warnings overnight, and the National Weather Service continued to collect reports of damage from the Tennessee state line all the way to the Gulf Coast.

The line of storms had exited the state as of Sunday morning, and no additional severe weather is anticipated today or for the next several days, according to forecasts from the Storm Prediction Center.

The National Weather Service offices across Alabama will spend today compiling damage reports and making plans for possible storm surveys.

As of Sunday morning the weather service has official plans to survey two areas to see if tornadoes touched down.

The National Weather Service in Huntsville is planning to survey the Athens area in Limestone County, where structural damage was reported overnight:

The weather service office in Birmingham has also announced plans to survey damage in Lamar County in west Alabama.

The weather service office in Mobile also issued multiple tornado warnings overnight, so more storm surveys could be coming.

Damage has also been reported in parts of Escambia County in south Alabama and in Baldwin County along the coast.

Here’s one storm report from Escambia County:

Here’s a report from Baldwin County (a tornado has not been confirmed but is suspected):

The weather service also got multiple reports of downed trees and power outages across the state overnight.

Just under 38,000 customers were still without power as of just before 7:30 a.m. Sunday:

More than 30,000 customers were still without power as of just before 7:30 a.m. Sunday.PowerOutage.us

The weather service expects clouds to clear from west to east today, with mild temperatures hanging around.

The next system will bring a mostly-dry front through the state on Tuesday. No severe weather is expected.

Colder temperatures will return for the latter half of the work week, and there are signs that January could bring very cold temperatures to the U.S. It’s unclear how it could affect Alabama at this point.