The threat of tornado went to the Mississippi Valley and the deep south on Saturday, A day after a large storm system While walking across the country, at least six killed, exposed the damaged winds, killed dust storms, causing deadly accidents and more than 100 forest fire in many central states.
The National Meteorological Service issued several tornado and serious thunderstorm warnings for areas in Alabama, Kentki, Mississippi, Tenasi, Illinois, Indiana and Texas on Saturday morning. According to Findenergy.com, by Saturday morning, some of those states left the power outage in thousands of darkness.
In Missouri, Butler and Ozark were at least three deadly in counties. Many tornadoes were also reported in Missouri on Friday, just a few extreme weather that was forecast to impress a house house for more than 100 million people. Winds were predicted at a speed of 80 mph from the Canadian border to Texas, threatening icy storms in cold northern regions and there was a risk of wildfire in warm, dried areas to the south.
According to SGT, three people were killed in car accidents on Friday during a dust storm at Amarilo County at Texas Panhandal. Cindy Barkle of the State Public Safety Department of the state. A pileup consisted of an estimated 38 cars.
Barkle said, “This is the worst I have ever seen,” “We could not tell that they were all together until the bus went like a dust.”
A withdrawal of some Oklahoma communities was ordered as more than 130 fire was reported across the state. The state patrol team said that the winds were so strong that they topped many tractor-trailers.
“It’s terrible here,” Charles Daniel said, a truck driver, which is a 48-foot (14.6-meter) trailer with an interstate 40 in Western Oklahoma. “There is a lot of sand and dirt in the air. I am not pushing it for more than 55 mph. I am afraid that if I do it will fly away.”
The forecasts stated that the threat of severe storm would continue with a high probability of damage to the winds in the weekend in the weekend and on Saturday in Mississippi and Alabama. Heavy rains can bring flash floods in parts of the east coast on Sunday.
Experts say that it is not uncommon to see such weather extremes in March.
“What is unique about this, it has a large size and intensity,” said Bill Bunting of Storm Prediction Center of National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma. “And so what is doing is really making sufficient impact on a very large area.”
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Tornles hit amidst the outbreak of storm
Weather Seva said that at least five tornadoes were reported in Missouri on Friday, which included a single one in the St. Louis region. Many buildings were damaged in the storm, including a strip mall in Rola, Missouri, where a tornado was reported on Friday afternoon.
The Storm Prediction Center said that rapidly growing storms can spon twisters and are large as baseball, but the biggest threat will come from the winds near the storm force or near the storm with a gust of 100 mph (160 kmph).
According to the National Meteorological Service, “potential violent” tornado was expected in parts of the Central Gulf coast and on Saturday in the Tenasi Valley.
The Storm Prediction Center stated that some parts of Mississippi include Jackson and Hetisberg and Birmingham and Tuskalosa areas of Alabama, which will be at a high risk. Eastern Louisiana, Western Georgia, Central Tennessee and Western Florida panhandals were also possible to have serious storms and tornadoes.
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Wildfires are broken between dried, ugly conditions
In the southern plains, Wildfire threatened to spread rapidly between hot, dry weather and strong winds, and on Friday ordered withdrawal for some communities in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and New Mexico.
An explosion in Roberts County, Texas, in the northeast of Amarilo, quickly increased to a square mile (about 2 square kilometers), which was an estimated 32.8 square miles (85 square kilometers), the One Service of the University of Texas A&M by Friday evening. The crew said.
About 60 miles (90 km) in the south, another fire increased to about 3.9 square miles (10 square kilometers) before stopping in the afternoon.
The Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management activated its emergency operating center due to several rapidly growing fire, which inspired the withdrawal of the LD city in a rural area in the western part of the state and in the east of Norman.
Firefighters were prepared in some areas, which helps the authorities jump on the blaze quickly, the Head of Andy James, Oklahoma Forestry Service Fire Management. Firefighting aircraft were also deployed in Oklahoma and parts of Texas, but were usually unable to fly due to less visibility from smoke and dust, he said.
On Friday evening, the National Weather Service stated that “a very dangerous fire complex” was located in the north -east of Oklahoma City, near Stillwater, and urged to vacate some people in about 50,000 cities. Officials issued compulsory withdrawal orders through social media, including houses, hotels and a Walmart.
Officials urged people to vacate due to wildfires in some areas of Central Missouri’s Camden County, and the State Highway Patrol warned through social media that they were with homes and businesses.
The western Kansas was temporarily closed due to blowing dust and limited visibility of 120 miles (190 km) of interstate 70.
According to the website PowerOutage.us, high winds for more than 216,000 houses and businesses in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri also knocked power.
Excessive storm warning in northern plains
The National Meteorological Service issued a Blizard warning for the remote western Minnesota and parts of the remote east South Dakota in early Saturday. 3 to 6 inches of snow was expected to accumulate, it was possible to one leg.
The winds up to 60 mph (97 km per hour) were expected to cause white conditions.
