Storm Monster by the United States – In triggers a threat of tornado and fire, killing at least 16 – National

The threat of violent tornado tornado in the USs has proven to be deadly and destructive as the dial winds moved east to Mississippi Valley and a deep south on Saturday, with at least 17 people killed and a dozen homes decimated.

Most of the deaths on Saturday morning were in Missouri, the authorities said, which ran into Twisters overnight, resulting in at least 11 deaths. The Missouri Highway Patrol also reported that more people had been injured.

Death included a man who was killed after Tornado separated his home,

“It was unrecognizable as a home. Just a field of debris,” said coroner Jim Akers of Butler district, describing the scene that faced rescuers when they arrived. “The floor was upside down. We walked on the walls.”

Rescuers managed to save a woman in the house, Akers said.

Arkansas officials said on Saturday morning that three people died in the Independent district, and 29 others were injured during eight counties while storms passed through the country overnight.

“We have teams that have explored the damage from last night’s tornadoes and we have the first answers on the field on the field,” Arkansas’ government Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on X. “In the meantime, I just released $ 250,000 from our disaster recovery fund to provide resources for this surgery for each of the affected communities.”

In the meantime, the authorities said three people were killed in a car accident during a dust storm in Amarill in Texas Panhandle.

Death comes as a massive storm system moving all over the country, released winds that started the deadly dust storm and amazed more than 100 fires.

Extreme weather conditions are predicted, by citing the winds of hurricane-ups to the home area on more than 100 million people. The winds that blew up to 80 mph (130 km / h) are foreseen from the Canadian border to Texas, threatening the conditions of Blizzard in cooler northern areas and the risk of fire in warmer, dry areas in the south.

Evacuation has been ordered in some communities in Oklahoma, as more than 130 fires have been reported throughout the country.

More than 200 homes have been damaged or destroyed in Oklahoma for fires, Vladin Kevin Stitt said at a press conference on Saturday. About 266 square kilometers (about 69 acres) has so far burned in his country.

State patrol said the winds were so powerful that they broke several tractor trailers.

“This is terrible here,” said Charles Daniel, a truck driver who pulled a 48 -foot trailer (14.6 meters) along Interstate 40 in Western Oklahoma. “There are a lot of sand and dirt in the air. I don’t push it over 55 mph. I’m afraid it will blow if I do it.”

Experts say it is not unusual to see such weather in March.

“What is unique in this great size and intensity,” said Bill Bunting of the National Meteorological Service Center in Norman, Oklahoma. “And so what does is the creation of a really significant impact on the very large area.”

Tornado hit in the middle of a storm

The storm prediction center said that the storms could quickly be born twister and beats as big as a baseball, but the biggest threat would come from real winds nearby or exceeds the force of hurricane, with 100 mph (160 km / HPH).

The center said that parts of Mississippi, including Jackson and Hattiesburg, and Alabama areas, including Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, would be exposed to high risk. Heavy storms and tornadoes were also possible in Eastern Louisiana, Western Georgia, Central Tennessee and Western Florida Panhandle.

Fires break out in the middle of dry, toll conditions

In addition to Oklahome, the fires in the southern plains threatened to spread quickly in the middle of warm, dry weather and strong winds in Texas, Kansas, Missouri and New Mexico.

Blub in Roberts County in Texas, northeast of Amarill, quickly blew up from less than a square mile (about 2 square kilometers) to about 32.8 square kilometers (85 square kilometers), said Texas A&M University Forests for Forests X. stopped its progress by Friday night.

About 60 miles (90 kilometers) in the south, another fire rose to about 3.9 square kilometers (10 square kilometers) before the progression stopped in the afternoon.

High winds also knocked on more than 260,000 homes and companies in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois and Indiani, according to the Porecoutage.us website.

Blizzard warnings in northern plains

The National Meteorological Service issued Blizzard warnings for parts of the far west minnesota and the distant Eastern southern Dakota starting from the beginning of Saturday. Snow clumps were expected from 3 to 6 inches (7.6 to 15.2 centimeters), with possible foot (30 centimeters).

Winds were expected to go by 60 mph (97 km / h) to cause white conditions.

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