London, ky. – The most severe storms were expected to roll in the center of the United States. This week after the deaths related to the climate of more than two dozen and A devastating Kentucky tornado.
The National Meteorological Service said that a “multitude of dangerous climate” would affect the USA. In the next few days, from power storms and potential hail of baseball size to the plains to the snow of the heavy mountains in the west and dangerous heat In the south.
The areas at risk of thunderstorms include communities in Kentucky and Missouri that were hit by Friday’s tornadoes.
In London, Kentucky, people whose houses were destroyed fought on Sunday to put canvases on rescue articles or transport them for safe storage, said Zach Wilson. His parents’ house was in ruins, his scattered belongings.
“We are doing everything possible to get something that looks value and protecting it, especially photos, papers and things like that,” he said.
Here is the latest on recent storms, some tornado stories and where to look for The following climate impact.
At least 19 people died and 10 serious injured in Kentucky, where a tornado damaged hundreds of houses on Friday and threw vehicles in the southeast of Laurel County. 0FFECIALS said the death toll could increase and that three people remained in critical condition on Sunday.
Wilson said he ran to his parents’ house in London, Kentucky, after the storm.
“I was dark and still raining, but every lightning, illuminated your nightmares: everything was gone,” he said. “The grateful thing I went to me and my brother arrived here and we took them from where they had locked themselves.”
Survey teams were expected on the ground on Monday so that the State can request federal disaster assistance, said Governor Andy Beshear. Some of the two dozen state roads that had closures could take days to reopen.
In St. Louis, five people died and 38 were injured when the storm system swept on Friday, according to Mayor Cara Spencer. More than 5,000 homes in the city were affected, he said.
On Sunday, the city inspectors were going through damaged areas to condemn insecure structures, said Spencer. He asked people not doing tourism in damaged areas.
A tornado that began in the suburb of St. Louis de Clayton traveled at least 8 miles (13 kilometers), had 150 mph winds (241 kph) and had a maximum width of 1 mile (1.6 kilometers), according to the weather service. He hired in the Forest Park area, home of the St. Louis Zoo and the 1904 World Fair site and the Olympic Games that same year.
In Scott County, about 130 miles (209 kilometers) south of St. Louis, a tornado killed two people, wounded several others and destroyed multiple houses, wrote Sheriff Derick Wheetley on social networks.
The weather system generated tornadoes in Wisconsin and parts of Illinois, including Chicago, were temporarily wrapped in a dust lever.
Two people died in the suburbs of Virginia de Washington, DC, for the fall of trees while driving.
The storms hit after the Trump administration reduced the staff of the Meteorological Services offices, with external experts who care about how disaster warnings would affect such as tornadoes.
Most tornadoes in the world occur in the United States, which has 1,200 annually.
Researchers In 2018, he discovered that mortal tornadoes occurred less frequently in the traditional “Tornados Alley” of Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas and most frequently in parts of the south more densely populated and full of trees.
They can happen at any time of the day or night, but certain times of the year bring peak of “tornado season”. That is May in early June for the South Plains and early spring on the Gulf coast.
The most fatal tornado in Kentucky’s history was hundreds of widths when he crossed the commercial district of the center of Louisville in March 1890, collapsing several -story buildings, including one with 200 people inside. Seventy -six people were killed.
The last tornado to cause mass deaths in Kentucky was a December 2021 Twister That lasted almost five hours. He traveled about 165 miles (266 kilometers), leaving a path of destruction that included 57 dead and more than 500 injured, according to the weather service. The officials recorded at least 41 tornadoes during that storm, who killed at least 77 people throughout the state.
The same day, a mortal tornado hit the St. Louis area, killing six people In a Amazon installation In the nearby Illinois.
Electric storms were forecast with potentially harmful winds for a region that extends from the Northeast of Colorado to the center of Texas.
And the tornadoes will be a threat particularly from the center of Kansas to Oklahoma, according to the weather service.
Meanwhile, triple digit temperatures were forecast for southern Texas with the potential to break daily records. The hot and dry air also prepares the stage for critical conditions of forest fires earlier this week in the south of New Mexico and the West Texas.
They were expected to a snow foot in parts of Idaho and western Montana.
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Brown reported from Billings, Montana.
