Overnight storms leave damage across Alabama

Alabama was blanketed with severe weather warnings overnight, and the National Weather Service continued to collect damage reports from the Tennessee state line to the Gulf Coast.

The line of storms had left the state by Sunday morning, and no further severe weather is expected today or in the next few days, according to forecasts from the Storm Prediction Center.

National Weather Service offices across Alabama will spend today compiling damage reports and making plans for possible storm surveys.

As of Sunday morning, the weather service has official plans to survey two areas to determine if tornadoes have touched down.

The National Weather Service in Huntsville plans to survey the Athens area in Limestone County, where structural damage was reported overnight:

The weather service office in Birmingham also announced plans to survey damage in Lamar County in western Alabama.

The weather service office in Mobile also issued several tornado warnings overnight, meaning additional storm measurements could follow.

Damage was also reported in parts of Escambia County in southern Alabama and in Baldwin County along the coast.

Here is a storm report from Escambia County:

Here is a report from Baldwin County (a tornado has not been confirmed but is suspected):

The weather service also received several reports of downed trees and power outages across the state overnight.

Almost 38,000 customers were still without power shortly before 7:30 a.m. on Sunday:

The weather service expects clouds to clear from west to east today and temperatures to remain mild.

The next system will bring a mostly dry front through the state on Tuesday. Storms are not expected.

Colder temperatures will return in the second half of the work week, and there are signs that January could bring very cold temperatures to the US. It is unclear at this time how this may impact Alabama.