By Katy Galimberti, AccuWeather staff writer
Numerous tornadoes were reported across Alabama, Georgia and Florida on Sunday afternoon amid a severe weather outbreak across the southeastern United States.
The fiercest tornadoes killed nearly two dozen people in Alabama, including multiple children.
This weekend's outbreak was the deadliest since Moore, Oklahoma, was leveled by tornadoes in 2013, killing 24. The death toll is more than double the total number of tornado-related fatalities across the United States in all of 2018 (10).
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President Donald Trump tours devastation in Beauregard, Ala., Friday, March 8, 2019, part of the area where tornados killed 23 people in Lee County, Ala. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump pause at a line of crosses outside Providence Baptist Church in Smiths Station, Ala., Friday, March 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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President Donald Trump is greeted by Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Trump's arrival, Friday, March 8, 2019, in Auburn, Ala., en route to Lee County, Ala., where tornadoes killed 23 people.
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Carol Dean, right, cries while embraced by Megan Anderson and her 18-month-old daughter Madilyn, as Dean sifts through the debris of the home she shared with her husband, David Wayne Dean, who died when a tornado destroyed the house in Beauregard, Ala., Monday, March 4, 2019.
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Ashley Griggs, right, helps Joey Roush, left sift through what's left of his mother's home after it was destroyed by a tornado in Beauregard, Ala., Monday, March 4, 2019.
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Brittney Downs looks through the debris of a family member's destroyed home the day after a deadly tornado ravaged the area, in Beauregard, Ala., Monday, March 4, 2019.
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Dax Leandro, right, and Ashley Griggs look at a family photo recovered from the debris of their friend's home destroyed by a tornado in Beauregard, Ala., Monday, March 4, 2019.
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Julie Morrison looks through the debris of her destroyed home on Lee County Road 63 in Beauregard, Ala., Monday, March 4, 2019.
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Debris from a home litters a yard the day after a tornado blew it off its foundation, lower right, in Beauregard, Ala., Monday, March 4, 2019.
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Debris litters the property of a destroyed home on Lee County Road 63 in Beauregard, Ala., Monday, March 4, 2019, the day after a deadly tornado ravaged the area.
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Beauregard High School students and members of the community bow their heads in prayer as students lead a prayer service for the community, Monday, March 4, 2019, in Beauregard, Ala, following a deadly tornado that hit the area Sunday.
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Debris litters a yard the day after a deadly tornado damaged a home in Beauregard, Ala., Monday, March 4, 2019.
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This aerial photo shows damage caused by Sunday's powerful tornado in Beauregard, Ala., Monday, March 4, 2019.
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People walk amid debris in Lee County, Ala., after a tornado struck the area Sunday, March 3, 2019.
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This aerial photo shows damage caused by Sunday's powerful tornado in Beauregard, Ala., Monday, March 4, 2019.
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Tornado damage in Peach County, Georgia.
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Emergency responders work in the scene amid debris in Lee County, Ala., after a tornado struck in the area Sunday, March 3, 2019.
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This photo shows debris in Lee County, Ala., after a tornado struck in the area Sunday, March 3, 2019.
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A tornado was seen from a truck stop in Warner Robins, Georgia.
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Tornado warned storm in Byron, Georgia.
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A severe storm near Malvern, Alabama, on Sunday afternoon.
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Trees down on south bound side of I-185 near Columbus, Georgia.
An EF4 tornado struck Lee County just after 2 p.m. EDT on Sunday with winds as high as 170 mph.
The National Weather Service issued a rare tornado emergency declaration at 2:09 p.m.
Jonathan Clardy told the Associated Press he rode out the tornado with his children in his trailer in Beauregard, Alabama. “All we could do is just hold on for life and pray,” he said to the AP. “It’s a blessing from God that me and my young’uns are alive.”
The northeastern U.S. was hit with snow and ice on Sunday, creating travel chaos.
Up to 6 inches of snow fell in some areas, including parts of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Cars piled up on snowy highways from St. Louis to New York City.
Snow turned into a disaster in Colorado on Thursday after an avalanche buried vehicles under deep snow on Thursday.
In the latest of a string of avalanches across the state, multiple cars were stuck in snow on Highway 91 near Copper Mountain, west of Denver.
Avalanche danger has been growing over the past several days with some avalanches disrupting travel along Interstate 70. This includes a slide that buried cars on the interstate on Sunday and forced the highway to be closed for several hours.
Additional avalanches are anticipated.
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Rain inundated California this week, drenching some cities.
An atmospheric river led to the rain, washing Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento.
The storm sparked an intense lightning show in Southern California on Tuesday night. At one point, the National Weather Service (NWS) recorded 1,489 pulses of lightning in just five minutes off the California coast, according to The Los Angeles Times.
Lightning also knocked out power briefly at three terminals at Los Angeles International Airport and also struck a plane. No one on the plane was injured and the Delta flight to Seattle returned to the airport, where passengers later boarded a different plane.
A magnificent lightning display lit up the Los Angeles sky Tuesday night. (Mike Eliason / Santa Barbara County Fire)
More than a dozen wildfires continued to burn across the Australian state of Victoria early this week.
At least 11 buildings were destroyed by the fires including homes and a winery, according to The Guardian.
The fire is believed to have started from a lightning strike on Friday, growing rapidly over the weekend as winds increased.
Criticism of firefighting and fuel burn efforts in the region grew louder from angry and frightened residents on Tuesday, according to ABC News.
Minister for Emergency Services Lisa Neville said the area where the fire started was part of a fuel burn in 2016; however, drought in recent years has prevented further fuel-burning activities.
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