ELMORE COUNTY, Ala. (WSFA) – Morning storms swept through Central Alabama this weekend, knocking down trees and power lines and causing damage to several structures in Elmore County, officials said.
Early Saturday morning, the county was placed under a tornado warning after radar showed rotation, though the National Weather Service had not confirmed a tornado touchdown, Keith Barnett, director of the Elmore County Emergency Management Agency, said.
“The storm carried straight-line winds, and the radar showed rotation, though it has not yet been confirmed whether a tornado touched down,” Barnett said. “We do have a couple of structures that have reported damage. There was one in the 8400 block of Holtville Road, in the Holtville/Slapout community, that had pretty extensive roof damage. It had a storage building that was flipped over. We have a couple of manufactured homes that had their skirting blown out from underneath them. We had another property with a storage building that was flipped over, and two or three addresses with trees that fell on storage sheds or on a couple of vehicles parked on the property.”…