In a Monday press conference, the National Weather Service said the tornado that left at least 23 people dead in rural Lee County has been classified as an EF4 tornado. BREAKING: Preliminary EF-4 Tornado Damage has been found along County Road 39 just east of Cave Mill Road in southwestern Lee County. Darden also called the Lee County tornado the deadliest in the country since an EF5 twister hit Moore, Oklahoma, in May 2013. “I’m not going to be surprised if we come up with some more deceased,” Lee County Coroner Bill Harris said. The destruction is concentrated in Beauregard, a Lee County town about 60 miles east of Montgomery, Alabama.

Source: Huffington Post March 04, 2019 22:07 UTC