A wave of tornadoes has hit the interior of the United States, causing at least 27 dead, according to local authorities. The tornadoes hit the city of Sant Louis, with about 280,000 inhabitants and about one million counting their metropolitan area, causing damage and leaving five of the seven dead counted for now in Missuri. In Kentucky there have been 18 dead, concentrated mainly in Laurel County. In Virginia there have been two other dead. Tornados have also hit Illinois and Indiana, without knowing known fatalities.
“Kentucky, we start today with the sad news that we have lost at least 14 of our citizens in the storms last night, but unfortunately, this figure is expected to increase as we receive more information. Please, pray for all affected families,” those bad omens were fulfilled during the day, raising the number of fatalities to 18, to which a dozen injured in critical state is added.
The storms were part of a weather system that on Friday caused the death of seven people in Misuri and also caused tornadoes in Wisconsin, left several hundreds of thousands of customers in the region of the great lakes and caused a heat wave in Texas.
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The National Meteorological Service confirmed by Radar, which swept the east of the lower part of Kentucky shortly after midnight. Tornado alerts continued on the morning of this Saturday.
The images of the London area, the main city of Laurel County, show a terrible trace of destruction by tornadoes, with houses reduced to rubble and vehicles overturned. The testimonies of the residents account for the intensity of the winds that have devastated some areas.
In Misuri, the tornadoes left their trail of destruction in the city of St. Louis. “The loss of lives and the destruction that St. Louis has suffered in today’s storm are terrible, and my thoughts are with all the people whose lives have changed today”, “Our first response teams and our community are doing everything possible to save lives, help the injured, provide refuge and much more. Thank you. In the next few days we will have many opportunities to help and much work for doing. And let our first response teams do their job.
They are frequently hit by southern states such as Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Misuri or Kentucky. They are an event produced by the crossing of two hot air currents: one dry from the west and another wet that goes up from the Gulf of Mexico. Around 1,000 tornadoes a year are produced.
Although especially in April (22.5%), there is a secondary tornado season in November and December in the southeast of the country.
