Deadly Storms Kill at Least 25
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File photo. iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — At least 25 people in four states are dead from powerful thunderstorms and tornadoes that continue to pound the Ohio River Valley and parts of the southern United States.
At least six people were killed Monday in Mississippi, one day after 15 people were killed in Arkansas.
Two others were killed Monday in a trailer park near Athens, Ala.
Two bodies were found buried beneath rubble in Lincoln County, Tenn.
There were over 130 tornado warnings issued Monday into Monday night, with 58 reported tornadoes in five states in the past 24 hours.
Overall, there have so far been 94 reported tornadoes over 10 states.
The National Weather Service has not yet been able to measure the strength of this tornado outbreak, but Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe says he has never seen a storm like this before. “The severity of this in terms of the power of the tornado may be more significant than any of them I’ve seen.”
From Nebraska to Louisiana, entire neighborhoods have been swept away in a path of destruction. A tornado in Baxter Springs, Kan., sliced a five-mile trail of devastation all the way to Oklahoma. In Mayflower, Arkansas, the storm tossed around tractor-trailers around like toys.
Weather experts say because of the slow nature of the system, the storm is actually stalling and could even retrograde backwards. Severe weather will be expected Tuesday in almost the same areas.
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