At least 11 people were killed in tornadoes and storms in the central United States on Friday night and throughout the night. In Illinois, a concert hall roof fell off, burying several people under it.
Tornadoes caused the most serious damage in Arkansas, where four people lost their lives in the town of Wayne, several buildings collapsed, and firefighters tried to remove roadblocks caused by falling trees Saturday. A tornado struck Little Rock, the state capital, on Friday, where one person died and about 25 were injured, many in critical condition, MTI reported.
According to local reports, the whirlwind first destroyed the western part of the city, passed through a shopping center, and then caused severe damage to the northern part of the city and the surrounding settlements. The city’s hospitals are on the highest vigil, and the state governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders He announced that one hundred men of the National Guard had been mobilized.
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In the most affected state of Arkansas, 90,000 consumers lost power, in Oklahoma, more than 30,000 people remained without electricity, and there were power outages in the states of Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, and Texas as well. Three people were killed in southern Indiana and several more are listed as missing in connection with the storms on Saturday morning.
260 people were attending a heavy metal concert at the Apollo Theater in Belvidere, Illinois, when the roof collapsed in the tornado; One person died and 28 were injured.
In Kansas, several people had to be evacuated from their homes in El Dorado, including 250 elementary school students, due to fires fanned by the storm, and in Oklahoma, strong winds caused wildfires to spread rapidly. The Weather Service issued warnings for a total of 85 million homes due to the storm area that formed in the central part of the United States.
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Last Sunday, more than two dozen people were killed in the western part of Mississippi, and the most serious damage from the tornado was in the small town of Rolling Fork, where gusts reached maximum winds of 320 kilometers per hour and destroyed some of them almost completely. parts of the settlement. Last week’s storms killed one person in Alabama.
Heavy rains continued in California this week. They have one of the wettest winters ever seen in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. In the Mammoth Mountains in the eastern part of the region, a record 17.6m of snow has fallen on average this year, after another 70cm of snow fell on Tuesday afternoon. On the highest peak of the mountain range, at 3369 meters, the total amount of snow has exceeded 22 meters since the beginning of November.
