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VIA AL.com:
Alma Bryant High School is open and school is in session hours after a powerful storm ripped through coastal Alabama on Wednesday damaging the school’s athletic fields.
The storm system that spawned powerful tornadoes in Texas and Louisiana, appears to have created “minor damage” in Mobile and Baldwin counties. Crews with the National Weather System in Mobile are at the high school, based in Irvington, to assess whether a tornado damaged the school’s athletic fields.
“We had tornadic circulation that moved off the Gulf waters and crossed into the immediate coastal areas,” said Cody Lindsey, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Mobile. “We’ll check whether (the damage at Alma Bryant) was tornadic or straight-line winds.”
Rena Philips, the school system’s spokeswoman, said the storm damaged a fence and a scoreboard at the athletic fields. She said the school’s building appears to be undamaged.
“We’re assessing the damage,” she said. “When the principals get there (Wednesday morning), and start looking, they may find something else.”
The system arrived into Southwestern Alabama shortly after 10 p.m. Wind gusts of around 55 mph were recorded in the Mobile area shortly after 1 a.m.