HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) – The latest on the severe storms moving across the U.S. and the unusually warm December weather (all times local):
6:20 a.m.
Emergency officials were checking for possible tornado damage before dawn on Christmas Eve in southeast Alabama after the National Weather Service said radar showed what appeared to be a mass of debris from a tornado.
Police say splintered trees covered a road near Clayton.
Alabama Power Co. says about 3,500 homes and businesses are without power, most in the Mobile area and southeastern Alabama, where forecasters say torrential rain was falling at a rate of 5 inches an hour. The weather service says more than 9 inches of rain fell overnight in Coffee County.