WINTERBORO, Ala. ( WIAT) — An EF-2 tornado tore through the community of Winterboro on Saturday night. The tornado destroyed a high school gymnasium and severely damaged other buildings. Just feet off the path of that tornado is a cemetery. One man who has a reason in the face of all this destruction to be thankful.

Alabama is reeling from the devastation caused by multiple tornadoes that tore through the state on Saturday, March 15.

A new tornado watch was issued Sunday for parts of West Virginia, Ohio and PA. Millions of Americans across the country are on alert for a severe weather outbreak as violent, long-track tornadoes with damaging winds of up to 80 mph and large hail are expected across the Midwest and South with the cross-country storm moving east.