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At least six deaths as a threat from tornados moves south and dazzling winds fan forest fires

At least six deaths as a threat from tornados moves south and dazzling winds fan forest fires

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At least three people died when a strong storm system sweeps over a broad complaint in the central and south of the United States.

From the southern levels to the Midwest, an estimated 138 million people are exposed to the risk of a storm, whereby in parts of Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Indiana and Kentucky Tornado warnings.

The storm system has left buildings in ruins, destroyed power supply and reinforced more than 100 forest fires.

Missouri State Highway Patrol said on X that a tornado in the Bakersfield region in Ozark County had caused two deaths with reports on several injuries. It published pictures of destroyed and ruined buildings and a crushed car on the roadside.

Another person died of Missouris border with Arkansas in Butler County, after a mobile home had been hit by extreme weather on Friday evening, the district's emergency services told NBC News.

Butler County Emergency Management said that the number of deaths could increase there, whereby the search and rescue operations are continued at the location.

In the Texas Panhandle, three people were killed by car accidents caused by AA dusty on Friday, so loud Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Cindy Barkley. She said that the accidents in the Amarillo area were and accused strong winds and low visibility.

Millions remain at risk because the storm creates a path through the region.

According to Poweroutage, an organization that aggregates the live current failure data, more than 400,000 customers in the middle west and in the south are without electricity.

Almost half a dozen tornados were reported in Missouri alone.

According to the National Weather Service, Tornados had been reported by trees and power lines in the state, and the NBC subsidiary KSDK of St. Louis reported that companies were damaged and tractor movements were lifted.

Tornados were also reported in Arkansas and Mississippi. The reports are unconfirmed; Storm Survey teams usually later determine whether tornados actually occurred. The weather service for Jackson, Mississippi, shared a photo of X of a large wedge tornado north of Cruger.

Other photos that were posted by the Missouri Highway Patrol showed storm damage in Rolla, Missouri, about 95 miles southwest of St. Louis, and in a bus schonn in Dixon.

Strong nightly tornados at EF2 on the Tornado strength scale, defined by continuing winds from 113 to 157 miles per hour, are possible from south -Iowa to Jackson, Mississippi.

The worst of the system also threatens harmful winds and HAG from Saturday. The size of baseballs in Missouri was reported in Christian County, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri.

Widespread tornado, storm risk

Missouri governor Mike Kehoe declared a state of emergency on Friday when the state prepared itself for the unstable air of the front overnight. The statement will enable state resources to achieve local governments faster, his office said.

“I ask all the Missourians to stay vigilant, to monitor weather forecasts and to follow the official warnings,” he said.

Florissant, Missouri, Mayor Timothy Lowerery told KSDK that in the city, including many houses, “we have a lot of damage”. A tree also fell on the landmark of the Hendel restaurant, the station reported.

“Well, tonight I'm a very terrible night here in the city of Florissant,” said Lowery.

The police in St. Louis warned late Friday that there were reports of vehicles that were trapped in floods and asked people to turn around!

Tornado watches were exhibited for parts of Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee until at least 3 a.m.

A tornado outbreak over the central golf coast in the Tennessee Valley was probably also late Saturday. In East Louisiana, in Mississippi and Alabama, significant tornados were possible.

Strong winds and fire in Texas, Oklahoma

In Texas, dust blinding drivers blinded with fatal consequences, officials said.

Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Cindy Barkley said on Friday that there were three fatal accidents in the Amarillo area due to strong winds and low visibility. The number of deaths was not immediately clear.

One person died and two more were injured in an accident between three halves and four other vehicles in Palmer County, said Cesar Marquez, city administrator and fire chief in Bovina. It was not clear whether the crash in the three in the Amarillo region was included.

There was “so much blowing dirt that we were shocked every time we approach something,” said Marquez.

According to the National Weather Service, parts of North Texas saw up to 62 miles per hour.

Potter County Fire-Rescue reported that four streets were restricted or blocked after separate incidents in which large rigs had “turned”. The county in Texas Panhandle includes the northern half of Amarillo.

“At best, visibility is bad and zero in places,” said the agency on social media. “If you don't have to be outside, please stay where you are.”

The dust was not the only concern. The same system showed forest fires in Texas and Oklahoma on Friday when the low -pressure system moved to the east.

Low visibility and strong winds have caused several accidents in the South Plains in Texas.Texas Department of Public Safety

According to Texas A&M Forest Service, the largest of the six active forest fires in the state, the windmill fire in Roberts County, grew from 500 to 18,000 acres in less than a day. The fire was included 50% on Friday evening.

The rest of the fire in Gray County marched over 4,500 acres on Friday, but his expansion stopped in the early evening, said Texas A&M Forest Service. Firefighters had reached 30% containment by the end of the day, it said.

The A&M Forest Service from Texas said on Thursday that the conditions for a wildfire outbreak in Southern Great Plains, a dangerous weather formula, which is partly based on low humidity and gusty wind, may be suitable, although such an outbreak was not officially declared by Friday afternoon.

Several fires burned in Oklahoma on Friday evening.

Governor Kevin Stitt asked the residents who were laid on Friday evening by obligatory evacuations in Mannford, a city in the northeastern part of the state to “leave”.

For parts of Norman, in which, according to the Norman Police Department burned several forest fires, mandatory evacuations were also in force.

The mandatory evacuations in the city of Stillwater expanded late Friday, with locations such as a Walmart and several hotels and “several square miles”.

The winds have apparently also contributed to recharging with several structural fires in the city, and the reinforcement of the fire brigade is on the way, it said in an explanation.

The National Weather Service Office in Norman previously said that “a dangerous forest fire outbreak” was underway and later identified Blazes near Chickasha, Chandler, Camargo and Leeden. And near Lake Carl Blackwell, where the residents were pushed for evacuating. There was also one in Lincoln County, where the evacuations north of the city of Meridian were ordered.

Weather system to move east

The low -pressure system affects the southern and northern range of the middle part of the nation when it pushes to the east and promises to end the eastern USAM until the end of the weekend.

While it is moving into the east coast on Sunday, the Tornado threat to Virginia and Carolinas will shift.

On the north side of the front, including the upper middle west and the northern levels, Blizzard conditions were predicted for the weekend, with 8 inch snow possible in some regions.

The National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center said that the new week should bring even more winter storms, if at least two other low -pressure systems march to the east.

The first of the two would probably form a solid, clockwise, a process that the weather service calls cyclogenese, it said. It will probably bring snow inside, including the middle west and the large lakes, with a second storm will probably bring a fresh snow shaft, rain and thunderstorm to a section of the nation from the Rocky Mountains to the upper middle one until late a week before the first day of astronomical spring on Thursday on Thursday.

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