Storm damage now reported in Auburn, Ala., area

AUBURN, Ala. - Alabama authorities are now reporting storm damage in Lee County.

Lee County officials say a storm that passed through the area has done moderate damage, with some reports of roofs being damaged and trees knocked down.

Lee County Emergency Management training officer Chris Tate said Wednesday that a storm that had just passed through did some damage in the Opelika and Auburn areas. There are no reports of injuries.

Tate says there are no reports of damage on the Auburn University campus.

The storm damage came during a period when the National Weather Service had issued a tornado warning for the Lee County area, which is in the eastern part of the state.

Earlier, damage was reported in west Alabama from storms that are moving across the state.

The director of the Sumter County Emergency Management Agency, Margaret Bishop-Gulley, says a possible tornado hit the Whitfield community near the Mississippi state line Wednesday morning.

Bishop-Gulley says no injuries are confirmed, but ambulances are checking out radio reports that an elderly woman was trapped inside her home by a fallen tree.

She says trees are down in the community, and possibly power lines. She says most of the damage is near the post office in Whitfield, which is about 15 miles southeast of York.