One dead, many more injured as winter tornado hits Alabama

At least one person was killed in a winter storm system that spawned a tornado in Alabama and left wide swaths of the Mid-South glazed over Thursday.

Report informs, citing the NBC, that in Hale County, Alabama, a woman died and eight others were injured after the tornado swept through the area Thursday afternoon, Hale County emergency director Russell Weeden said. Damage was reported across the county, which is about 35 miles south of Tuscaloosa.

Thursday's ice storms left roads dangerously slick and many without power across the southern portion of the country, officials said.

Western Tennessee was particularly hard hit by power outrages as nearly 120,000 homes and businesses in Shelby County were in darkness late in the afternoon, according to utility tracker PowerOutage.us.

Memphis police and fire officials urged residents to stay off the roads, which have been littered with downed power lines. And Memphis Light, Gas and Water told customers not to call unless they faced a serious emergency.