Violent tornadoes that torn apart from the United States parties have proved to be fatal and destructive that whipped winds moved to the east in the Mississippi valley and deep south on Saturday, with at least 17 people killed and dozens of decimated houses.
The most deaths from Saturday morning was in Missouri, the authorities said, which was stuffed by twisters during the night, which led to at least 11 deaths. The Missouri State Highway Patrol also pointed out that several people had been injured.
The dead included a man who was killed after a tornado torn his house.
“It was unrecognizable as a house. Just a scope of debris, “said Coroner Jim Akers of Butler, describing the scene that faced the rescuers when they arrived. “The soil was upside down. We were walking on the walls.
The rescuers managed to save a woman at home, said Akers.
Arkansas officials said on Saturday morning that three people died in the county of Independence and 29 others injured in eight counties while storms passed in the state overnight.
“We have teams by abundant the damage of the tornadoes last night and we have first stakeholders on the ground to help,” said Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, on X.
She and the Governor of Georgia Brian Kemp have declared emergency in their respective states. Kemp said he was making the bad weather, moving to the state later on Saturday.
On Friday, during this time, the authorities said that three people had been killed in car accidents during a dust storm in Amarillo in Texas Panhandle.
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Deaths come as a massive storm system that moved across the country of raging winds that have triggered deadly dust storms and fueled more than 100 forest fires.
Extreme weather conditions – including the wind -up winds – should affect an area that houses more than 100 million people. Winds blowing up to 80 MPH (130 km / h) were predicted from the Canadian border in Texas, threatening blizzard conditions in the cold northern areas and the risk of forest fire in the warmer and drier areas to the south.
Evacuations have been ordered in certain Oklahoma communities, as more than 130 fires have been reported throughout the state.
Nearly 300 houses have been damaged or destroyed in Oklahoma due to a fire. Governor Kevin Stitt said at a press conference on Saturday that some 266 square miles (689 square kilometers) have so far burned in his state.
The state patrol said that the winds were so strong that they overturned several tractors.
“It’s terrible here,” said Charles Daniel, a truck driver carrying a 48 -foot (14.6 meter) trailer along the Interstate 40 in the west of Oklahoma. “There is a lot of sand and dirt in the air. I do not push it on 55 MPH. I’m afraid it blows if I do it.
Experts say it is not unusual to see such Times are extreme in March.
The tornadoes struck in the middle of the storm epidemic
The Storm Prediction Center said that rapid storms could cause twisting and hawk as large as baseball balls on Saturday, but the biggest threat would come from nearby linear winds or exceeding the force of hurricanes, with gusts of 100 MPH (160 km / h) possible.
Important tornadoes, some of which could be long and violent, are expected on Saturday afternoon and evening. The most risky region extends from eastern Louisiana and Mississippi in the afternoon, then in Alabama and in the western parts of Georgia and Florida Panhandle in the evening, the center said.
Forest fires break out in dry and gust
In addition to Oklahoma, forest fires elsewhere in the southern plains threatened to spread quickly in the middle of hot and dry time and strong winds in Texas, Kansas, Missouri and New Mexico.
A fire in the county of Roberts, Texas, northeast of Amarillo, quickly exploded by less than a square mile (approximately 2 square kilometers) at around 32.8 square miles (85 square kilometers), said Texas A&M University Forest Service on X. Crews stopped by Friday evening.
About 60 miles (90 kilometers) in the south, another fire reached around 3.9 square miles (10 square kilometers) before its advance was interrupted in the afternoon.
High Winds also put power to more than 260,000 houses and businesses in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, according to the Poweroutage.us site.
Blizzard warnings in the Northern Plains
The National Weather Service has issued Blizzard warnings for certain parts of the far-West of Minnesota and Dakota from the south of the Far Oriental from Saturday. Snow accumulations from 3 to 6 inches (7.6 to 15.2 centimeters) were expected, with a possible foot (30 centimeters).
The winds blowing at 60 mph (97 km / h) had to cause money laundering.
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