


The storm was located 65 miles east-southeast of Raleigh, North Carolina, and moving east-north-east at 25mph, forecasters said. On Monday morning, Claudette had maximum sustained winds of 40mph (65km/h), the National Hurricane Center said in an advisory. Crews were using boats to search Pebble Creek. Makayla Ross, a 23-year-old Fort Payne woman, died on Saturday after her car ran off the road into a swollen creek, DeKalb county officials told WHNT-TV.Ī search was also under way for one man believed to have fallen into the water during flash flooding in Birmingham. Garlock identified them as 29-year-old Cody Fox and his nine-month-old daughter, Ariana both of Marion county, Tennessee.Īdditionally, a 24-year-old man and a three-year-old boy were also killed on Saturday when a tree fell on their house just outside the Tuscaloosa city limits, said Jack Kennedy of the Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit. The crash also claimed the lives of two other people who were in a separate vehicle. The Butler county coroner, Wayne Garlock, said vehicles probably hydroplaned. The vehicle erupted in flames in the wreck along a wet Interstate 65 about 35 miles (55km) south of Montgomery. The children who died on Saturday were in a van for a youth home for abused or neglected children.
