Alabama tornado outbreak: 3 confirmed deaths

Winterboro man whose home damaged for fifth time among 3 Alabama tornado deaths

AROUND YOU. YEAH, WE ARE IN WINTERBORO WHERE THAT EF TWO DEADLY TORNADO CAME THROUGH. AND AS YOU JUST MENTIONED, JARVIS DESTRUCTION ALL AROUND US, NOT TOO FAR FROM THE CHILDERSBURG AREA. YOU MAY RECOGNIZE THE SPOT WHERE WE’RE AT. WE’VE SHOWN A LOT OF PICTURES AND VIDEO OF THE SCHOOL BUILDING. THE HIGH SCHOOL BEHIND ME. THAT WAS WHERE THAT HUGE SCHOOL BUS WAS LOFTED ONTO THE BUILDING. THAT HAS SINCE BEEN CLEARED. PLENTY OF CREWS HERE TODAY REALLY WORKING TO STARTING TO CLEAN UP ALL OF THE DEBRIS FROM INSIDE THE GYM. AND OF COURSE, THAT SCHOOL BUS AS WELL. UNFORTUNATELY, SOMEONE DID DIE HERE IN WINTERBORO HARRY FEIN. THIS WAS ONE OF THREE PEOPLE THAT WAS KILLED HERE IN ALABAMA DUE TO THESE STORMS. WE HAVE TWO OTHER DEATHS THAT HAPPENED IN PLANTERSVILLE THAT’S SOUTH OF US IN DALLAS COUNTY. THAT WAS FROM AN EF THREE TORNADO THAT DEVASTATED THE CITY THERE. THAT IS THE STRONGEST CONFIRMED TORNADO THAT WE KNOW OF AS OF THIS POINT. AND FREE IS ONE OF THE VICTIMS THAT WAS KILLED IN PLANTERSVILLE. HER GRANDDAUGHTER IDENTIFIED HER AND SAID THAT SHE LATER FOUND OUT THAT HER LOVED ONE WAS THROWN RIGHT OUT OF HER HOME. THEY FOUND HER THREE QUARTERS OF A MILE AWAY WITH PARTS OF THE MOBILE HOME. IT’S IT’S LIKE IT’S NOT REAL. AND I KNOW, ZOE, YOU’VE BEEN HERE ALL DAY, RIGHT DOWN THE STREET FROM HERE WAS WHERE HARRY FEIN PASSED AWAY. AND YOU SPOKE TO SOMEONE TODAY THAT KNEW HIM? YEAH. BRITTANY. I’VE BEEN OUT HERE ALL MORNING TALKING TO PEOPLE WHO KNEW HIM. EVERYBODY I’VE TALKED TO SAID HE WAS A GOOD FRIEND, A GOOD NEIGHBOR. AND THIS IS A BIG LOSS HERE IN THIS COMMUNITY. 98 YEAR OLD LUCA. I’M SO SORRY. 98 YEAR OLD ROBERT LUKER SAYS HE KNEW HARRY FEIN FOR OVER 40 YEARS. BACK IN 1973, BOTH OF THEIR HOUSES WERE DESTROYED BY TORNADOES. THIS IS ACTUALLY THE FIFTH TORNADO TO HIT HARRY FAIN’S HOME. LUCA TELLS ME HE LOST A FRIEND THIS WEEKEND AND THAT IT’S JUST HEARTBREAKING TO SEE ALL OF THIS DAMAGE SO CLOSE TO HOME. YOU JUST DON’T NEVER KNOW WHICH WAY THEY’RE GOING. YOU GOT TO WATCH FOR AND IT’S I LIVE ABOUT THE WAY THE CROW FLIES ABOUT THREE, TWO AND A HALF MILES FROM WHERE HE WAS KILLED IN THE STORM. AND WE WERE IN OUR HALLWAY WAITING ON THE STORM TO GO PAST WHEN THAT B

Winterboro man whose home damaged for fifth time among 3 Alabama tornado deaths

LATEST FORECAST | CONFIRMED DEATHS | CONFIRMED TORNADOES | INTENSE PHOTOS AND VIDEOS | STORM DAMAGE INSURANCE STEPS | �� 13 LIVE DOPPLER RADAR | UPLOAD YOUR WEATHER PHOTOS | TURN ON WEATHER NOTIFICATIONSThree people are confirmed dead following a tornado outbreak in Alabama.Two people died in Plantersville and one person died in Winterboro.Video above shows �� 13 team coverage. including areas where confirmed tornadoes hit.One of the Plantersville victims was a man who was sheltering inside his workshop with his wife, according to the Dallas County Coroner's office. Officials say his wife was uninjured.The second victim was a woman who was sheltering in her trailer when a reported EF-3 tornado tore through the area. She was found dead nearly a mile away from her destroyed trailer around 4 a.m. following an extensive search. The Talladega County Coroner's Office has identified the Winterboro victim as 83-year-old Harry Leon Fain.Robert Luker, 98, told �� that he knew Luker for more than 40 years.In 1973, both of their homes were destroyed in a tornado. This is the fifth time Fain's home was hit by a tornado.Luker said he is heartbroken to have lost a friend this weekend."You just don't never know which way they're going. ...I live about the way the crow flies about three...two and a half miles from where he was killed in a storm. And we were in the hallway waiting on the storm to go past the one that blew his house away," Luker said.Gov. Kay Ivey released a statement on Sunday."We pray for those lives we lost, as well as those who were injured. And we pray for our first responders, emergency management officials and linemen who are doing incredible work on the ground right now," Ivey said in a statement.Video below shows a bus on the roof of the Winterboro High School after a possible tornado.Video below shows Reporter Zoe Blair in Maplesville, which is part of the same potential tornado damage path as Plantersville.The National Weather Service is surveying damage from possible tornadoes and is confirming damage consistent with EF-0 and EF-2 tornadoes.More than 30 people are dead and several homes are decimated across the South. �� 13 was live with team coverage for more than nine hours on Saturday during two dozen Central Alabama Tornado Warnings.Our reporters were in the community and stayed safe with residents in storm shelters during the warnings to keep people prepared and informed alongside our experienced meteorologists. For the latest weather coverage for your area, click here. And stay updated with alerts in the �� 13 app. You can download it here.

PLANTERSVILLE, Ala. —

Three people are confirmed dead following a tornado outbreak in Alabama.

Two people died in Plantersville and one person died in Winterboro.

Video above shows �� 13 team coverage. including areas where confirmed tornadoes hit.

One of the Plantersville victims was a man who was sheltering inside his workshop with his wife, according to the Dallas County Coroner's office. Officials say his wife was uninjured.

The second victim was a woman who was sheltering in her trailer when a reported EF-3 tornado tore through the area. She was found dead nearly a mile away from her destroyed trailer around 4 a.m. following an extensive search.

The Talladega County Coroner's Office has identified the Winterboro victim as 83-year-old Harry Leon Fain.

Robert Luker, 98, told �� that he knew Luker for more than 40 years.

In 1973, both of their homes were destroyed in a tornado. This is the fifth time Fain's home was hit by a tornado.

Luker said he is heartbroken to have lost a friend this weekend.

"You just don't never know which way they're going. ...I live about the way the crow flies about three...two and a half miles from where he was killed in a storm. And we were in the hallway waiting on the storm to go past the one that blew his house away," Luker said.

Gov. Kay Ivey released a statement on Sunday.

"We pray for those lives we lost, as well as those who were injured. And we pray for our first responders, emergency management officials and linemen who are doing incredible work on the ground right now," Ivey said in a statement.

Video below shows a bus on the roof of the Winterboro High School after a possible tornado.

Video below shows Reporter Zoe Blair in Maplesville, which is part of the same potential tornado damage path as Plantersville.

The National Weather Service is surveying damage from possible tornadoes and is confirming damage consistent with EF-0 and EF-2 tornadoes.

More than 30 people are dead and several homes are decimated across the South.

�� 13 was live with team coverage for more than nine hours on Saturday during two dozen Central Alabama Tornado Warnings.

Our reporters were in the community to keep people prepared and informed alongside our experienced meteorologists.

For the latest weather coverage for your area, click here. And stay updated with alerts in the �� 13 app. You can download it here.

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Winterboro man whose home damaged for fifth time among 3 Alabama tornado deaths

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