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A car with its windows smashed and top caved in sits in front of a petrol station that was heavily damaged by a tornado in Tupelo, Mississippi (AP)
29 April 2014
At least 28 people are dead and tens of thousands without power after a storm system spawned a chain of tornadoes over three days across a large swath of the US.
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The storms flattened homes and businesses and forced frightened residents in more than half a dozen states to take cover.
Eleven people were confirmed killed yesterday and 17 on Sunday in a band stretching from Oklahoma in the central heartland to Alabama in the south east.
Forecasts showed the storm continuing to move east, with Georgia and Alabama residents waking to sirens, howling wind and pounding rain. Others found their loved ones missing and their homes pulverised.
In Louisville, Mississippi, firefighters picked through the remains of mobile homes, searching for three people unaccounted for after a tornado tore through. Twenty firefighters linked hands and waded through an area where woodframe homes had also been heavily damaged. Rescue workers stepped gingerly over downed power lines and trees that were snapped in half and stripped of branches.
The storm system is the latest onslaught of severe weather a day after a half-mile-wide tornado carved an 80-mile path of destruction through the suburbs of Little Rock, Arkansas, killing at least 15.
Tornadoes or severe storms also killed one person each in Oklahoma and Iowa on Sunday.
The Mississippi tornado caused water damage and carved holes in the roof of a medical centre, where an A&E unit was evacuated.
Mississippi emergency officials said seven people had been killed statewide. State director of health protection Jim Craig said officials were working with coroners to confirm the total.
Six people died in the Louisville area including a woman who died in the day care centre she owned in Louisville, county Coroner Scott Gregory said. It was unclear if any children were in the centre at the time, said William McCully, acting spokesman for Winston County Emergency Management Agency.
In Tupelo, a community of about 35,000 in northeastern Mississippi known as the birthplace of Elvis Presley, every building in a two-block area sustained damage, officials told a reporter on the scene. Some buildings had their roofs sheared off, while power lines had been knocked down completely or bent at 45-degree angles. Road crews were using heavy machinery to clear other streets.
The storm sent staff at a Tupelo TV news station running for cover. WTVA-TV chief meteorologist Matt Laubhan was reporting live on the weather when he realised the twister was coming dangerously close.
"This is a tornado ripping through the city of Tupelo as we speak. And this could be deadly," he said in a video widely tweeted and broadcast on YouTube.
Moments later he added: "A damaging tornado. On the ground. Right now."
In the video he is seen peeking in from the side to see if he is still on air before yelling to staff off-camera: "Basement, now!" He then disappears off camera.
Later, the station tweeted: "We are safe here."
In southern Tennessee, two people were killed in a home when a suspected tornado hit, Lincoln County emergency management director Mike Hall said. The winds destroyed several other homes as well as a middle school in the county that borders Alabama.
In northern Alabama, the coroner's office confirmed two deaths in a twister that caused extensive damage west of the city of Athens, said Limestone County emergency director Rita White. She said more victims could be trapped in the wreckage of damaged buildings, but rescuers could not reach some areas because of downed power lines.
The threat of dangerous weather jangled nerves a day after the three-year anniversary of a historic outbreak of more than 60 tornadoes that killed more than 250 people across Alabama on April 27, 2011.
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A car with its windows smashed and top caved in sits in front of a petrol station that was heavily damaged by a tornado in Tupelo, Mississippi (AP)
29 April 2014
At least 28 people are dead and tens of thousands without power after a storm system spawned a chain of tornadoes over three days across a large swath of the US.
Also in this Section
Family rescued in US national park
Bombs kill 17 at Iraqi market
President apologises over sinking
Dozens killed in Syria attacks
The storms flattened homes and businesses and forced frightened residents in more than half a dozen states to take cover.
Eleven people were confirmed killed yesterday and 17 on Sunday in a band stretching from Oklahoma in the central heartland to Alabama in the south east.
Forecasts showed the storm continuing to move east, with Georgia and Alabama residents waking to sirens, howling wind and pounding rain. Others found their loved ones missing and their homes pulverised.
In Louisville, Mississippi, firefighters picked through the remains of mobile homes, searching for three people unaccounted for after a tornado tore through. Twenty firefighters linked hands and waded through an area where woodframe homes had also been heavily damaged. Rescue workers stepped gingerly over downed power lines and trees that were snapped in half and stripped of branches.
The storm system is the latest onslaught of severe weather a day after a half-mile-wide tornado carved an 80-mile path of destruction through the suburbs of Little Rock, Arkansas, killing at least 15.
Tornadoes or severe storms also killed one person each in Oklahoma and Iowa on Sunday.
The Mississippi tornado caused water damage and carved holes in the roof of a medical centre, where an A&E unit was evacuated.
Mississippi emergency officials said seven people had been killed statewide. State director of health protection Jim Craig said officials were working with coroners to confirm the total.
Six people died in the Louisville area including a woman who died in the day care centre she owned in Louisville, county Coroner Scott Gregory said. It was unclear if any children were in the centre at the time, said William McCully, acting spokesman for Winston County Emergency Management Agency.
In Tupelo, a community of about 35,000 in northeastern Mississippi known as the birthplace of Elvis Presley, every building in a two-block area sustained damage, officials told a reporter on the scene. Some buildings had their roofs sheared off, while power lines had been knocked down completely or bent at 45-degree angles. Road crews were using heavy machinery to clear other streets.
The storm sent staff at a Tupelo TV news station running for cover. WTVA-TV chief meteorologist Matt Laubhan was reporting live on the weather when he realised the twister was coming dangerously close.
"This is a tornado ripping through the city of Tupelo as we speak. And this could be deadly," he said in a video widely tweeted and broadcast on YouTube.
Moments later he added: "A damaging tornado. On the ground. Right now."
In the video he is seen peeking in from the side to see if he is still on air before yelling to staff off-camera: "Basement, now!" He then disappears off camera.
Later, the station tweeted: "We are safe here."
In southern Tennessee, two people were killed in a home when a suspected tornado hit, Lincoln County emergency management director Mike Hall said. The winds destroyed several other homes as well as a middle school in the county that borders Alabama.
In northern Alabama, the coroner's office confirmed two deaths in a twister that caused extensive damage west of the city of Athens, said Limestone County emergency director Rita White. She said more victims could be trapped in the wreckage of damaged buildings, but rescuers could not reach some areas because of downed power lines.
The threat of dangerous weather jangled nerves a day after the three-year anniversary of a historic outbreak of more than 60 tornadoes that killed more than 250 people across Alabama on April 27, 2011.
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A car with its windows smashed and top caved in sits in front of a petrol station that was heavily damaged by a tornado in Tupelo, Mississippi (AP)
29 April 2014
At least 28 people are dead and tens of thousands without power after a storm system spawned a chain of tornadoes over three days across a large swath of the US.
Also in this Section
Family rescued in US national park
Bombs kill 17 at Iraqi market
President apologises over sinking
Dozens killed in Syria attacks
The storms flattened homes and businesses and forced frightened residents in more than half a dozen states to take cover.
Eleven people were confirmed killed yesterday and 17 on Sunday in a band stretching from Oklahoma in the central heartland to Alabama in the south east.
Forecasts showed the storm continuing to move east, with Georgia and Alabama residents waking to sirens, howling wind and pounding rain. Others found their loved ones missing and their homes pulverised.
In Louisville, Mississippi, firefighters picked through the remains of mobile homes, searching for three people unaccounted for after a tornado tore through. Twenty firefighters linked hands and waded through an area where woodframe homes had also been heavily damaged. Rescue workers stepped gingerly over downed power lines and trees that were snapped in half and stripped of branches.
The storm system is the latest onslaught of severe weather a day after a half-mile-wide tornado carved an 80-mile path of destruction through the suburbs of Little Rock, Arkansas, killing at least 15.
Tornadoes or severe storms also killed one person each in Oklahoma and Iowa on Sunday.
The Mississippi tornado caused water damage and carved holes in the roof of a medical centre, where an A&E unit was evacuated.
Mississippi emergency officials said seven people had been killed statewide. State director of health protection Jim Craig said officials were working with coroners to confirm the total.
Six people died in the Louisville area including a woman who died in the day care centre she owned in Louisville, county Coroner Scott Gregory said. It was unclear if any children were in the centre at the time, said William McCully, acting spokesman for Winston County Emergency Management Agency.
In Tupelo, a community of about 35,000 in northeastern Mississippi known as the birthplace of Elvis Presley, every building in a two-block area sustained damage, officials told a reporter on the scene. Some buildings had their roofs sheared off, while power lines had been knocked down completely or bent at 45-degree angles. Road crews were using heavy machinery to clear other streets.
The storm sent staff at a Tupelo TV news station running for cover. WTVA-TV chief meteorologist Matt Laubhan was reporting live on the weather when he realised the twister was coming dangerously close.
"This is a tornado ripping through the city of Tupelo as we speak. And this could be deadly," he said in a video widely tweeted and broadcast on YouTube.
Moments later he added: "A damaging tornado. On the ground. Right now."
In the video he is seen peeking in from the side to see if he is still on air before yelling to staff off-camera: "Basement, now!" He then disappears off camera.
Later, the station tweeted: "We are safe here."
In southern Tennessee, two people were killed in a home when a suspected tornado hit, Lincoln County emergency management director Mike Hall said. The winds destroyed several other homes as well as a middle school in the county that borders Alabama.
In northern Alabama, the coroner's office confirmed two deaths in a twister that caused extensive damage west of the city of Athens, said Limestone County emergency director Rita White. She said more victims could be trapped in the wreckage of damaged buildings, but rescuers could not reach some areas because of downed power lines.
The threat of dangerous weather jangled nerves a day after the three-year anniversary of a historic outbreak of more than 60 tornadoes that killed more than 250 people across Alabama on April 27, 2011.
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A car with its windows smashed and top caved in sits in front of a petrol station that was heavily damaged by a tornado in Tupelo, Mississippi (AP)
29 April 2014
At least 28 people are dead and tens of thousands without power after a storm system spawned a chain of tornadoes over three days across a large swath of the US.
Also in this Section
Family rescued in US national park
Bombs kill 17 at Iraqi market
President apologises over sinking
Dozens killed in Syria attacks
The storms flattened homes and businesses and forced frightened residents in more than half a dozen states to take cover.
Eleven people were confirmed killed yesterday and 17 on Sunday in a band stretching from Oklahoma in the central heartland to Alabama in the south east.
Forecasts showed the storm continuing to move east, with Georgia and Alabama residents waking to sirens, howling wind and pounding rain. Others found their loved ones missing and their homes pulverised.
In Louisville, Mississippi, firefighters picked through the remains of mobile homes, searching for three people unaccounted for after a tornado tore through. Twenty firefighters linked hands and waded through an area where woodframe homes had also been heavily damaged. Rescue workers stepped gingerly over downed power lines and trees that were snapped in half and stripped of branches.
The storm system is the latest onslaught of severe weather a day after a half-mile-wide tornado carved an 80-mile path of destruction through the suburbs of Little Rock, Arkansas, killing at least 15.
Tornadoes or severe storms also killed one person each in Oklahoma and Iowa on Sunday.
The Mississippi tornado caused water damage and carved holes in the roof of a medical centre, where an A&E unit was evacuated.
Mississippi emergency officials said seven people had been killed statewide. State director of health protection Jim Craig said officials were working with coroners to confirm the total.
Six people died in the Louisville area including a woman who died in the day care centre she owned in Louisville, county Coroner Scott Gregory said. It was unclear if any children were in the centre at the time, said William McCully, acting spokesman for Winston County Emergency Management Agency.
In Tupelo, a community of about 35,000 in northeastern Mississippi known as the birthplace of Elvis Presley, every building in a two-block area sustained damage, officials told a reporter on the scene. Some buildings had their roofs sheared off, while power lines had been knocked down completely or bent at 45-degree angles. Road crews were using heavy machinery to clear other streets.
The storm sent staff at a Tupelo TV news station running for cover. WTVA-TV chief meteorologist Matt Laubhan was reporting live on the weather when he realised the twister was coming dangerously close.
"This is a tornado ripping through the city of Tupelo as we speak. And this could be deadly," he said in a video widely tweeted and broadcast on YouTube.
Moments later he added: "A damaging tornado. On the ground. Right now."
In the video he is seen peeking in from the side to see if he is still on air before yelling to staff off-camera: "Basement, now!" He then disappears off camera.
Later, the station tweeted: "We are safe here."
In southern Tennessee, two people were killed in a home when a suspected tornado hit, Lincoln County emergency management director Mike Hall said. The winds destroyed several other homes as well as a middle school in the county that borders Alabama.
In northern Alabama, the coroner's office confirmed two deaths in a twister that caused extensive damage west of the city of Athens, said Limestone County emergency director Rita White. She said more victims could be trapped in the wreckage of damaged buildings, but rescuers could not reach some areas because of downed power lines.
The threat of dangerous weather jangled nerves a day after the three-year anniversary of a historic outbreak of more than 60 tornadoes that killed more than 250 people across Alabama on April 27, 2011.
