Aftermath: Alabama's tornado dead range in age from 6 to 89

They included 6-year-old Armando Hernandez Jr., known as “AJ,” torn from his father’s arms two days after singing in his first-grade class musical; 10-year-old Taylor Thornton, who loved horses and was visiting a friend’s home when the twister struck; and Jimmy Lee Jones, 89, who perished along with his wife of six decades, Mary Louise, and one of their sons.“Just keep those families in your prayers,” Lee County Coroner Bill Harris said, two days after the disaster.The search for victims, pets and belongings in and around the devastated rural community of Beauregard continued amid the din of beeping heavy machinery and whining chain saws. It’s something to leave their kids and grandkids,” he said.It was the deadliest tornado to hit the U.S. since May 2013, when an EF5 twister killed 24 people in Moore, Oklahoma.Government teams surveying storm damage confirmed that at least 20 tornadoes struck on Sunday in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.Cindy Sanford said one of her neighbors in Beauregard died in the storm, and another neighbor remained missing Tuesday.“I pray to God that they find her,” Sanford said as picked through remains of her home, which tumbled in the wind and is now scattered across neighbors’ land.Sanford said she left home with her 5-year-old grandson about five minutes before the storm struck after she got a feeling it was unsafe.“It was God,” she said.