close
close

Tornadoes, wild fires and dust orbted over us, while the massive storm leaves at least 32 dead

Tornadoes, wild fires and dust orbted over us, while the massive storm leaves at least 32 dead

Piedmont, Mo. -violent coils and large winds decimated houses, deleted schools and noticed the semi-premises of the semi-storm that killed at least 32 people were snatched in the center and south of the USA

Dakota Henderson said that he and others who saved the caught neighbors found five bodies scattered on debris on Friday night, outside what was left of his aunt from Wayne County, Hit, Missouri. Twifters scattered killed at least one dozen people In the state, the authorities said.

“It was a very rough business last night,” Henderson said on Saturday not far from the split house from which he said they saved their aunt through a window of the only room left. “It is indeed disturbing for what happened to people, last night victims.”

The coroner Jim Akers in the nearby Butler County described the “unrecognized house” in which a man was killed as “just a field of debris”.

“The floor was upside down,” he said. “I was walking on the walls.”

The Mississippi governor, Tate Reeves, announced that six people died in three counties, and three others were missing late on Saturday, while the storms moved to the east to Alabama, where damaged houses and impassable roads were reported.

Officials confirmed three deaths in Arkansas, where the Sarah Huckabee Sanders government has declared an emergency. Georgia’s governor Brian Kemp did the same thing to change the storm to the east.

The dust storms stimulated by the big wind winds claimed almost a dozen lives on Friday. Eight people died in a bunch of highway in Kansas, which involved at least 50 vehicles, according to the patrol of the state highway. The authorities said that three people were also killed in car crashes during a dust storm in Amarillo, in Texas Panhandle.

Extreme weather encompasses an area of ​​100 million people

Extreme weather conditions have been forecast to impact on an area that houses over 100 million people, the wind threatening the blizzard conditions in the colder northern areas and have supported the risk of fire in warmer and drier places.

The evacuations were ordered in some communities in Oklahoma, because over 130 fires were reported and almost 300 houses were damaged or destroyed. Governor Kevin Stitt told a press conference on Saturday that about 266 square miles (689 square kilometers) burned, sharing that he had lost his own house at a northern -Est of Oklahoma City farm.

To the north, the National Meteorological Service has issued Blizzard warnings for parts of the Western Minnesota and eastern Dakota, starting Saturday. Snow accumulations of 3 to 6 inches (7.6 to 15.2 centimeters) were expected, with up to one foot (30 centimeters). The winds were expected to cause whitening conditions.

However, experts said it is not unusual to see that Extreme weather in March.

Tornadoes have been spread

Significant tornadoes continued on Saturday late, the region with the highest risk of eastern Louisiana and Mississippi through Alabama, western Georgia and Florida Panhandle, the storm prediction center said.

Bailey Dillon, 24 years old, and her fiancé, Caleb Barnes, watched from the front of Tylertown, Mississippi, while a massive twister hit an area about half a mile (0.8 kilometers) near Paradise Ranch RV Park.

They subsequently drove to see if someone needs help and recorded videos with caught trees, levels and reversed vehicles.

“The amount of damage was catastrophic,” Dillon said. “It was a large amount of cabins, RVs, campsites that have just been overturned. Everything was destroyed. “

Paradise Ranch said by Facebook that all the staff and guests were safe and represented, but Dillon said that the damage expanded beyond the RV park itself.

“The houses and everything were destroyed around her,” she said. “Schools and buildings are completely missing.”

Some images from the extreme weather have gone viral online.

Tad Peters and his father, Richard Peters, pulled themselves to feed their truck in Rolla, Missouri, on Friday night, when they heard tornado sirens and saw other interstate motorists to park.

“Who, does that come? Oh it’s here. It’s here ”” Tad Peters can be heard saying on a video. “Look at all those debris. Ohhh. God, we are in a tear … “

His father then entered the window.

The two headed for Indiana for a weightlifting competition, but decided to return home to Norman, Oklahoma, about six hours away, where they then met wild fire.

___

Walker reported from New York and Reynolds reported from Louisville, Kentucky. Bruce Shipkowski in Toms River, New Jersey, Jeff Roberson in Wayne, Missouri, Gene Johnson in Seattle and Janie Har in San Francisco.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material cannot be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.