March Comes in like a Lion with Massive Storms

The weather today is making headlines and storms sweep across North America. As severe weather systems sweep across the United States there is sever weather across the country. There are tornadoes from the central states down to the Florida panhandle. Roads are closed in the central plains states. The north and eastern states are experiencing hail, rain and snow.

Tornado Hits Alabama
Alabama officials say that at least thirteen people are dead after a tornado struck an Alabama community, making a direct hit on a high school.

The speaker of the Alabama House also said that five people have died at Miller's Ferry, where another apparent tornade tore into mbily homes, cutting a 2 milw swath through the park., per NBC News reports.

Enterprise, Alabama has been hit by a tornado that has torn the roof off of the High School. According to CNN reports, a reporters from the Enterprise Ledger Newspaper was on the scene. The unconfirmed reports were that the high school suffered about 25% damage. There were no deaths known. There were some minor injuries. Police have reported, per NBC News, that there are still students inside the devastated school. Three students have been airlifted out for medical care. There are reports of injuries..

Parts of several Midwestern states were under tornado watches or warnings. The tornado warnings and watches extended as far south as the Gulf Coast in the Florida panhandle.

A spokesman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Chris Vaccaro, said that the storm will bring dangerous blizzards to the north and probable tornado's to the south. "We've just begun what could be a long afternoon of severe weather" he said, as quoted by AFP, , "We're facing an ongoing severe weather outbreak with a high potential for tornadoes encompassing the center and lower portions of the Mississippi Valley into the southeast, so we're talking about a good chunk of the central and southeastern US".

Chris Vaccaro, spokesman for the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration, said that the storm was likely to bring a high number of tornadoes,