Multiple tornados and other damaging weather were all part of a massive storm system that has some 85 million under threat in the South and Midwest.
By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press
The destructive weather came as President Joe Biden toured the aftermath of a deadly tornado that struck in Mississippi a week ago and promised the government would help the area recover. Mayor Frank Scott Jr., who announced that he was requesting assistance from the National Guard, tweeted in the evening that officials were aware of 24 people who had been hospitalized in the city but no fatalities at the moment.Resident Niki Scott took cover in the bathroom after her husband called to say a tornado was headed her way.
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders declared a state of emergency and said there was “significant damage” in the central part of the state. “I’m in a panic trying to get home, but we can’t get home,” she said. “Wynne is so demolished. ... There’s houses destroyed, trees down on streets.” In Illinois, Ben Wagner, chief radar operator for the Woodford County Emergency Management Agency, said hail broke windows on cars and buildings in the area of Roanoke, northeast of Peoria.
Such “intense supercell thunderstorms " are only expected to become more common, especially in Southern states, as temperatures rise around the world.
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