
Tornadoes touch down in Alabama as storm moving across the country brings snow, ice, flooding and extreme winds
CNN
From Oklahoma to Maine, over 100 million people will feel the impacts of a strengthening winter storm as it races quickly from the southern Plains to the Northeast through Friday.
The National Weather Service confirmed two tornadoes touched down about 30 miles north of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, with trees in the roadway and unspecified structural damage reported. A third tornado was reported in Pell City, east of Birmingham.
In Mississippi and Tennessee reports of trees and power lines down were coming in to the US Storm Prediction Center.

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