The youngest tornado victim hid in a closet amid 170 mph winds. AJ Hernandez, 6, was with his father and brother before the 'the house exploded.' He was the youngest of 23 people killed when tornadoes slammed into his rural Alabama community.
Jessica Taylor on Wednesday prays in front of a cross for Jonathan Bowen, 9, at a makeshift memorial for the victims of a tornado in Beauregard, Ala."I have a son his age," Taylor said."I can't imagine that mother's loss." By Sarah Kaplan Sarah Kaplan Reporter for Speaking of Science Email Bio Follow March 7 at 8:46 AM BEAUREGARD, Ala. — The man in the baseball cap stood at the edge of the road and gazed out across the devastation, unseeing.AJ.
AJ Hernandez, 6, was the youngest of 23 people killed when tornadoes slammed into this rural Alabama community on Sunday. The first-grader sought shelter in a closet with his father, Steven Griffin, and his 10-year-old brother Jordan. Steven and Jordan were picked up and brought to an ambulance by friends driving a Jeep through the destroyed neighborhood. They both spent two days at hospitals in Birmingham being treated for fractured ribs, a fractured skull and a broken arm.
A few of the emergency responders and volunteers who drove through recognized the family. They leaned out their car windows to clasp hands, or strode over to envelop Kidd in a hug.[‘It was everything we had’: Alabama tornado survivors reckon with ‘Armageddon’]
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Alabama tornadoes kill 23, including 3 children; like 'giant knife'The tornadoes ripped through Lee County on Sunday with winds of up to 170 miles per hour (274 km per hour), at step four of the six-step Enhanced Fujita scale, which meteorologists use to measure tornado strength. At least two tornadoes struck an area of eastern Alabama near the Georgia border in the
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'Everything blew apart': Tornado survivors in Lee County, Alabama, tally the destructionNEW: Tornado that hit Lee County, Alabama, now rated EF4 with 170 mph winds, NWS says; tornado spanned nearly 1-mile-wide and had a path length of 24 miles.
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EF-4 tornado brought 170 mph winds and left a track almost a mile wide amid storms that killed 23 in AlabamaDrone video shows the aftermath of tornado destruction in Talbotton, Georgia, on Sunday. Multiple homes and at least one apartment building were destroyed, an official said.
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'Everything's gone': Stunned Alabama searches for missing after tornado kills 23First responders in Alabama hunted for survivors Monday after a devastating tornado killed at least 23 people, smashed homes and toppled power lines.
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‘Like someone took a giant knife and scraped the ground’: Alabama, Southeast reel after deadly wave of tornadoesA tornado in Lee County, Ala., had winds up to 170 mph, putting it in the second-strongest category measuring such storms, the National Weather Service said.
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'We lost children, mothers, fathers, neighbors and friends,' Alabama's governor says after tornadoesThis before and after image shows the complete destruction in Lee County, Alabama, following the EF-4 tornado there on Sunday. The tornado carried 170 mph winds and had nearly a mile-wide track for 65 miles, killing at least 23 people.
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