Tornado Outbreak Spawns At Least 50 Twisters Across 10 States, Killing 24
The cleanup is underway after multiple days of devastation in the Midwest and South from a tornado outbreak that killed at least 24 people. Here's the latest:
The National Weather Service performed tornado damage surveys following the weekend's tornadoes in Arkansas and determined that two twisters received a violent EF4 rating (tornadoes are rated from EF0 to EF5 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, ranked from 0 to 5 based on severity of damage).
One such tornado was confirmed in Izard County, Arkansas. The other, which had the most severe damage near Diaz in Jackson County, was determined to be a high-end EF4 tornado with maximum winds of 190 mph. For comparison, an EF5 tornado has winds of at least 201 mph, and no EF5 tornadoes have been confirmed in the United States since 2013.
On Saturday alone, more than 30 tornadoes were reported across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Extensive damage was reported across Mississippi and Alabama. Homes were severely damaged in Chilton, Dallas and Walker counties in Alabama.
Drone video showed Tylertown, Mississippi, devastated after two tornadoes were reported in the area within an hour.
In Colbert County, Alabama, baseball-sized hail was reported near the town of Tuscumbia.
Missouri has reported at least 12 storm-related deaths, including six in hard-hit Wayne County and at least three in Ozark County.
A victim in Butler County was killed when a tornado flattened his home. "It was unrecognizable as a home. Just a debris field," coroner Jim Akers told The Associated Press, "The floor was upside down. We were walking on walls."
In Arkansas, three deaths were confirmed in Independence County, with dozens more injuries reported across at least eight counties. The numbers are expected to rise as search and rescue efforts continue in battered areas.
The same storm system battered parts of the Plains on Friday, causing blinding dust storms and leading to deadly crashes that killed more than a dozen people.
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