Winds of up to 120 miles per hour wreaked destruction across the county as a huge weather system battered swathes of the U.S.

A tornado tore through the Winterboro community of Talledega County, Alabama, and destroyed an old high school gymnasium when the storm catapulted a school bus onto the gym roof. The St. Clair Times reports that one local resident was killed in the EF2 tornado with winds of 120 miles per hour.

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.