Violent tornadoes that ripped across numerous southeast states, crushing homes and overturning automobiles, have claimed the lives of at least 34 people in the United States.
At least eight individuals were killed in a collision involving over fifty automobiles in Kansas on Friday afternoon due to a dust storm. A similar big pile-up occurred in Texas.
More than 100 wildfires are burning in numerous states, including Arkansas, Georgia, and Oklahoma, where a state of emergency has been proclaimed.
Sunday is predicted to be a third day of severe weather, with further tornado warnings and flash floods throughout the area. The National Weather Service (NWS) declared the situation “particularly dangerous” and issued a warning of “intense to violent” tornadoes.
When several tornado warnings were issued on Saturday night, the NWS advised people in Alabama to “go to the sturdiest structure you have access to and remain in place until the storms pass.”
PowerOutage, a tracker, reports that at least 250,000 residences in the United States were without power on Sunday morning.
Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe said the state was “devastated by severe storms… leaving homes destroyed and lives lost” after at least 12 people perished there.
According to the state’s disaster management office, initial reports indicated that 25 counties had been hit by 19 tornadoes.
One of the people slain had their house destroyed.
“It couldn’t have been a home. “Just a debris field,” Butler County Coroner Jim Akers told CBS News.
“The floor was inverted. We were on walls.
After her house in Missouri was evacuated, Alicia Wilson told local television station KSDK: “It was the scariest thing I’ve ever been through – it was so fast, our ears were all about to burst.”
In Mississippi, a mother talked about how scared her daughter was.
“All I could hear was my six year old screaming that she didn’t want to die – you don’t want to hear that coming out of your baby’s mouth,” said Jericho McCoy.
According to local officials who spoke to AFP, a dust storm in Texas resulted in an automobile pile-up of around 38 vehicles, which killed at least one person.
According to Sgt. Cindy Barkley of the state’s public safety department, “It’s the worst I’ve ever seen,” she told reporters.
“We couldn’t tell that they were all together until the dust kind of settled.”
More than 130 flames were recorded in Oklahoma on Friday, according to the state’s department of disaster management, as a result of the damaging storms that fueled many wildfires in multiple central states.
It stated that 112 fire-related injuries have been recorded by hospitals around the state as of Saturday.
The destruction in the state was “unbelievable,” according to Governor Kevin Stitt, who visited his own property and discovered that he had “lost everything to the fires.”
“Oklahomans, we are in this together and we will build back stronger,” he stated.
When warm, humid air rises and combines with cold air above to create thunderclouds, a tornado is created. A vortex of air rises as a result of the air rotating due to winds coming from several directions.
Because the terrain is perfect for their development, a number of states, including Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Kansas, are located inside what is known as “Tornado Alley,” a route that is regularly struck by the weather phenomena.
Although May through June is the region’s peak tornado season, meteorologists warn that tornadoes can happen at any time of year.
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