A violent storm and tornados cost at least 16 people in the middle and south of the United States. The winds destroyed numerous buildings and fetched fires. An end of the extreme weather is not yet foreseeable.
Strong storms and tornados are swept away over large parts of the middle and southern USA – and more should follow. At least 16 people died, ten in the state of Missouri alone, as several media reported.
According to the police, several other people were injured. Numerous buildings were damaged in the entire storm area, as well as the wind forest fires. The national weather service published tornado and storm warnings for areas in the states of Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, Illinois, Indiana and Texas.
Due to the violent winds, even trucks were overturned.
Fires and snow storms
Extreme weather conditions should probably hit an area with more than 100 million inhabitants. From the Canadian border to Texas, wind gusts were predicted at speeds of up to 130 kilometers per hour. Snowstorms threatened in the northern areas.
The storms are taking numerous fires.
Hundreds of thousands without electricity
According to the Poweroutage website.
In Oklahoma, more than 200 houses were damaged or destroyed by fires, as governor Kevin Stitte announced. Evacuations were ordered in some districts of Oklahomas because more than 130 fires blazed.
