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  • Tornadoes tear across Iowa, leaving 5 people dead and at least 35 injured

    Tornadoes tear across Iowa, leaving 5 people dead and at least 35 injured

    Five people lost their lives and at least 35 were injured when strong tornadoes hit Iowa. One tornado caused a lot of damage in the small town of Greenfield. Officials announced this on Wednesday.

    The Iowa Department of Public Safety reported that four people were killed by tornadoes in the Greenfield area on Tuesday. The Adams County Sheriff’s Office also said that a fifth person, a woman whose car was blown off the road, was killed by a tornado about 25 miles away. 46-year-old Monica Zamarron passed away in a car accident on Tuesday, according to officials.

    Authorities did not share the names of the victims in the Greenfield area because they were still telling their families.

    On Wednesday, the Iowa Department of Public Safety said they think that more people might be hurt.

    The Greenfield tornado destroyed many homes, trees, and cars in the small town of Greenfield, which has about 2,000 people. It is located about 55 miles southwest of Des Moines. The tornado also destroyed big wind turbines that make electricity outside the city.

    Kimberly Ergish, 33, and her husband searched through the wreckage of their home to find family photos and other things they could save. She admitted that there wasn’t much left.

    “She said we can’t save most of it. ” “We’ll take what we can get. ”

    She doesn’t fully realize that her house was destroyed in just a few seconds.

    She said, “If I didn’t have all these bumps and bruises and my bones didn’t ache, I would think it never happened. ”

    The storms on Tuesday also hit Illinois and Wisconsin hard, leaving many people without power in both states. The bad weather moved south on Wednesday. The National Weather Service warned about tornadoes and flash floods in Texas. There was also a tornado watch in parts of the state, including Dallas.

    The National Weather Service thinks there was a strong tornado in Greenfield, but they need to check more to be sure. It might be even stronger than they first thought.

    The tornado seems to have traveled on the ground for more than 40 miles (64 kilometers), according to Jon Porter, the main weather expert at AccuWeather. A picture from a satellite made by BlackSky Technology shows where the tornado made a nearly straight path of damage through the town, just south of Greenfield’s center square.

    The dangerous tornado happened during a very bad tornado season in the US, when climate change is making storms worse everywhere. April had the second most tornadoes ever recorded in the country.

    Until Tuesday, there were 859 tornadoes confirmed this year. That’s 27% more than usual for the US, according to NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma. Iowa has had the most tornadoes, with 81 confirmed.

    On Tuesday, the National Weather Service got 23 reports of tornadoes. Most of them were in Iowa, and there was one in Wisconsin and one in Minnesota.

    The tornado in Greenfield was the worst thing that could happen in Iowa, just like the weather forecasters were worried about, according to Porter.

    “Rubble was thrown high up in the sky and landed in a different area far from Greenfield. ” Porter said, “This shows how strong and dangerous the tornado was. ”

    People who lived 100 miles away from Greenfield posted pictures on Facebook of their family photos, yearbook pages, and other things that were taken up into the sky by the tornado.

    Nicole Banner found an old page on her garage door after a storm, about 90 miles away in Ames, Iowa. The page said it belonged to the Greenfield Community School District.

    “She said we were surprised it had traveled so far. ”

    Karine Jean-Pierre, who works at the White House, said the head of FEMA will go to Iowa on Thursday. The White House is also talking to state and local officials. She said they were “asking for help for people who sadly died” and hoping those hurt get better quickly.

    The small Greenfield hospital with 25 beds was damaged, and at least twelve injured people had to be taken to other hospitals. The hospital will stay closed until it’s checked again. It could take weeks or months to fix everything. The hospital and other providers are opening a clinic at a school to help kids with their health on Thursdays.

    On Monday, the streets in the neighborhood had nice trees and pretty homes. But by Wednesday, everything was broken and messy. A lot of the homes’ basements where people hid were open and the front yards were messy with things like furniture, toys, and Christmas decorations.

    Dwight Lahey, a 70-year-old man who used to drive trucks, went from a town near Des Moines to Greenfield to help his 98-year-old mom. She hid from the twister in her basement, then went to a store after her garage was damaged.

    “I don’t know how she made it through that difficult situation,” he said. His mom was at a hotel, not sure where she will go now that their home is gone, he said.

    Roseann Freeland, who is 67 years old, hurried with her husband to a concrete room in her basement at the last minute. A few seconds later, her husband opened the door and they could see daylight. “I just went crazy. ” I completely lost control.

    Severe weather on Tuesday caused flooding and power outages in Nebraska, tornado damage in Wisconsin and Minnesota, and dust storms in Illinois that closed two interstates.

    The damage in Iowa happened after bad weather hit the middle of the country, including Oklahoma and Kansas. Last week, very strong storms hit Houston, and at least eight people died. Many people lost power in the area.

  • Two persons killed by tornadoes that rip throughout central and southeast of U.S

    Two persons killed by tornadoes that rip throughout central and southeast of U.S

    Strong storms caused a lot of damage in the middle and southeast of the US on Tuesday and Wednesday. They made big tornadoes, big hail, and two people died in Tennessee and North Carolina when trees fell on their cars.

    The big storm in northeastern Tennessee had strong winds that knocked over power lines and trees. Sheriff Bob Brooks said a 22-year-old man was in a car that got hit by a tree.

    On Wednesday, there was a very serious tornado warning for the southern part of Nashville. The towns of Spring Hill, Chapel Hill, and Eagleville were also in danger.

    A tornado alert was given in Columbia, which is about 45 miles south of Nashville. According to Lynn Thompson, who helps run Maury County 911, people in Columbia got hurt and their homes got damaged. Thompson said to The Associated Press that he couldn’t give more information: “We have too much to do right now. ”

    A big storm hit Gaston County in North Carolina, so the government declared a state of emergency on Wednesday evening. Emergency workers were clearing roads of fallen power lines and trees and were helping people, officials said. The New Hope Fire Department went to help when a tree fell on a car. Officials said that one person died in the car and another person was taken to the hospital.

    Over 135,000 people did not have electricity in the state by Wednesday evening, according to PowerOutage. us

    Tornadoes were spotted in Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio on Tuesday night, according to the US National Weather Service. The storms came one day after a deadly tornado hit a town in Oklahoma.

    The National Weather Service said tornadoes hit several counties in western Ohio on Tuesday: five in Warren County and one each in Darke, Mercer, and Auglaize counties. The weather service is checking Franklin and Butler counties to see if tornadoes hit there too. A tornado hit Jefferson County, but experts will have to check the damage to figure out how strong it was, according to Jeff Craven, a weather expert in Pittsburgh.

    On Wednesday, the crews looked at the damage from the big storms with hail and heavy rain. The storms also caused power outages for many utility customers.

    In Michigan, a weather expert named Nathan Jeruzal said that tornadoes hit Kalamazoo, Cass, and Branch counties in the southwestern part of the state. The leader of the state or province. Gretchen Whitmer said there is a big problem in four counties that need help.

    The area of Portage in Kalamazoo County was heavily impacted, with a FedEx building being torn apart and over twelve mobile homes being destroyed. Roughly 50 people were stuck inside the broken building because of fallen power lines.

    Over twelve houses were ruined in a group of mobile homes in Pavilion Township, and 16 people were hurt, according to Kalamazoo County Sheriff Richard Fuller.

    On Wednesday afternoon, Samantha Smith held a box as she left her mom’s damaged home in Pavilion Township, which is about 137 miles west of Detroit. The box had her grandmother’s remains inside. Being able to find the most treasured items gave Smith a rare feeling of relief during the terrible storm.

    Her mom, dad, and brother got hurt in the storm but they made it through.

    “I have thanked God so many times since this happened yesterday,” she said. “My children are doing well and are healthy. ” “We need to recover what we lost. ”

    Travis Wycoff went out on Tuesday night after seeing on radar that a tornado had hit the Portage area. He helped an older couple out of their partly fallen home and saved a service dog from a house.

    “Many people were running in the streets to find other people and their pets,” Wycoff said. “It was just very chaotic. ”

    In southern Indiana, a tornado hit on Wednesday morning and damaged homes in a neighborhood near the city of Sellersburg. Sellersburg is about 12 miles north of Louisville, Kentucky.

    The storm messed up 24 buildings, according to the Clark County Emergency Management Agency.

    Candice Holmes, who lives in the Lewis & Clark neighborhood north of Sellersburg, said that she, her husband and son went to their bathroom for safety when they heard the storm coming and the wind suddenly got very strong.

    “It was really frightening. ” Please simplify this text. “I’m happy that we’re still alive,” Holmes said to WDRB-TV.

    Tornadoes were also found in Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh, in central Arkansas, and in northern West Virginia. The West Virginia tornado happened on Wednesday in eastern Ohio. It was the 11th tornado in the state this year, even though the state usually only sees an average of two tornadoes a year.

    Large pieces of hail the size of baseballs fell on Wednesday in areas just southwest of St Louis, Missouri. There was heavy rain which caused sudden flooding and at least one person had to be rescued from the water near Sullivan, a town that was hit by a small tornado just two days ago. Large balls of ice also damaged things in the Kansas City area.

    On Tuesday, there were big storms in the central United States after heavy rain, strong winds, hail, and tornadoes hit the area the day before. The Plains and Midwest have been hit hard by tornadoes this spring.

    The whole week in the US will have a lot of storms. The Midwest and the South will have the worst weather for the rest of the week. This includes cities like Indianapolis, Memphis, Nashville, St Louis and Cincinnati, where over 21 million people live. It will be sunny during the weekend.

  • Four people in Oklahoma killed by tornadoes

    Four people in Oklahoma killed by tornadoes

    Tornadoes in Oklahoma killed four people, including a baby, and left many people without power. The severe weather destroyed buildings in a rural town and injured over 100 people across the state.

    Over 20,000 people did not have electricity for many hours after tornadoes started on Saturday night. A tornado in Sulphur, a town with 5,000 people, caused a lot of damage by smashing downtown buildings, throwing cars and buses, and taking off the roofs of houses in a 15-block area.

    “You can’t imagine how much damage there is,” said Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt when he visited the town that was hit hard. “It looks like all the shops in the downtown area have been ruined. ”

    Stitt said around 30 people were hurt in Sulphur, including some who were in a bar when the tornado hit. Hospitals in Oklahoma said about 100 people got hurt. Some were hit by falling things or hurt when they fell. A baby was one of the people who died, according to Mike Dockrey, who works for Hughes County Emergency Management. He told the news on Oklahoma TV station KOCO.

    White House people said that President Joe Biden talked to Gov. Stitt on Sunday and promised the government’s full help.

    The severe weather in Oklahoma is one of many tornadoes that have caused a lot of damage in the middle of the country since Friday. On Sunday, officials in Iowa said a man who got hurt during a tornado in Minden on Friday died, according to local news.

    Officials said that the tornado in Sulphur started in a city park and then went through the downtown area, causing damage to cars and buildings. The strong wind blew the windows and doors out of buildings, but the buildings were still standing.

    “How can we fix it. This is total destruction,” said Kelly Trussell, who has lived in Sulphur her whole life, as she looked at the damage. “It’s overwhelming, you want to help but don’t know where to begin. ”

    Carolyn Goodman went to Sulphur from the nearby town of Ada to look for her ex-sister-in-law. Goodman said her ex-sister-in-law was at a bar in the area just before the tornado came. Stitt said they found a person dead inside a bar, but the police don’t know who it is yet.

    Goodman said the bar was ruined. “I don’t think they will find her alive. ” “But I really wish that she is still alive. ”

    In the north, a tornado near Holdenville town caused the death of two people and damaged or destroyed over a dozen homes, as reported by the Hughes County Emergency Medical Service. Someone else died on Interstate 35 near the southern Oklahoma city of Marietta, according to state officials.


    The big storms in Oklahoma brought a lot of rain and caused dangerous floods. People had to be rescued from the water. Flooding shut down the Chickasaw National Recreation Area near Sulphur and a bridge was destroyed by the storms.

    Stitt made a rule on Sunday saying that there is a big problem in 12 counties because of bad weather.

    At the Sulphur High School gym, families hid from the storm. Jackalyn Wright and her family heard a noise like a helicopter when the tornado hit the area.

    Chad Smith, who is 43 years old, said that people hurried into the gym when the wind started to get stronger. The rain started to come down harder and the doors closed with a loud noise. Smith said, “I want a beer and a chair for the lawn. Then, I will sit outside and watch. ” Instead, he hid to protect himself.

    People in other states were also clearing up the damage caused by the storm. A big spinning storm in a town near Omaha, Nebraska, destroyed houses and shops on Saturday. It went through farmland and neighborhoods for a long way and then hit a town in Iowa.

    The tornado started damaging things on Friday afternoon near Lincoln, Nebraska. A big building in Lancaster County got hit and fell down while 70 people were inside. Some people were stuck, but everyone was saved, and the three people who got hurt were not in danger of dying, according to officials.

    One or maybe two tornadoes slowly moved towards Omaha for about an hour, causing damage similar to that of a strong tornado with winds of 135 to 165 m.p.h, according to Chris Franks, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Omaha.

    Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen and Iowa Governor [name]. Kim Reynolds went around on Saturday to see the damage and help the affected communities. Officials are still figuring out how much damage there is, but the states will ask the government for help.

  • Mother and her toddler perishes in tornadoes in Tennessee

    Mother and her toddler perishes in tornadoes in Tennessee

    A mom and her two-year-old boy were both killed when tornadoes and strong storms hit Tennessee on Saturday.

    Neighbors say Floriderma Perez, 31, was found holding her son Anthony after the storm hit their trailer home near Nashville.

    At least six people died because strong winds destroyed buildings and caused many power outages.

    Tennessee had to declare a state of emergency because of the very bad weather.

    Ms Perez and her son, along with their neighbor Joseph Dalton, 37, were all killed, according to the police. All three lived in a northern area near Nashville, which is the capital of the state.

    Neighbor Wanda McClemor told Channel 5 news that she and other people went outside to search for the child and his mother. This happened after a tornado lifted one mobile home and put it on top of another one.

    You could hear them asking for someone to help them. “When we arrived, there were already people trying to reach them,” Ms.

    She said they found Ms Perez and her son’s bodies, with the mother hugging the toddler tightly.

    “They said they couldn’t find her because she was holding him and trying to protect the baby,” Ms McClemor explained.

    Ms Perez’s 7-year-old son and Mr Dalton’s 10-year-old son got hurt, but they are not in danger, the police said.

    Two additional grown-ups and a kid were also murdered in the city of Clarksville, which is about 50 miles (80km) northwest of Nashville.

    A website was created to raise money for Arlan’s family, who is a 10-year-old kid. A friend of the family said that the boy’s relatives were really upset about his death and also losing their home.

    “They wrote that it will take a long time and it will be hard to recover, both emotionally and financially. ”

    From above, we can see a mobile home park where a tornado hit on December 10, 2023 in Madison, Tennessee and three people died.

    The government of Montgomery County said that 62 more people in the area were in the hospital with injuries.

    Jimmy Edwards, the boss of Montgomery County Emergency Services, said their situations are very serious and not steady.

    The mayor of our county, Wes Golding, said: “Today is a sad day for our community. We are thinking of those who are hurt, lost family members, and lost their houses, and we are hoping for their recovery.

    Police are still looking for and trying to save people in the area.

    In Nashville, there is a lot of damage in some places and authorities are warning people to watch out for power lines that have fallen down.

    A church near Nashville collapsed in the storm, and 13 people were sent to the hospital.

    Videos on social media showed cars flipped over and trees pulled out of the ground. The buildings along the streets were damaged and in bad shape.

    Recordings showed big tornadoes touching the ground and bright lightning in the sky.

    On Monday, the people who fix things in emergencies were working hard to clear away and fix power lines that had fallen down. Almost 18,000 people still don’t have electricity this morning.

  • Strong storms slam through eastern US, killing two people

    Strong storms slam through eastern US, killing two people

    A severe storm that tore through the eastern US on Monday claimed the lives of at least two persons, one of whom was struck by lightning and the other by a fallen tree.

    From New York to Alabama, nearly a million homes and businesses lost power, and thousands of flights were cancelled.

    There were watches for thunderstorms and tornadoes for more than 50 million people.

    Over a thousand flights were delayed on Tuesday morning and power had still not been restored to over 250,000 residences.

    A tree struck and killed 15-year-old Evan Christopher Kinley as he got out of his car to go to his grandparents’ house in Anderson, South Carolina, during the storm, the city’s fire chief told the BBC’s US partner CBS News.

    Police in Florence, Alabama reported that a 28-year-old male was murdered in a parking lot after being struck by lightning.

    According to the National Weather Service, being killed by lightning is extremely uncommon; on average, only 20 people a year in the US die from lightning strikes.

    Along the whole eastern seaboard, the storm brought down trees and electrical lines.

    Power has still not been restored for 100,000 residents in North Carolina, 95,000 in Pennsylvania, and 64,000 in Maryland as of Tuesday morning.

    The New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Washington, DC airports received several ground stops from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Monday.

    Over 1,000 flights were delayed as of Tuesday morning, according to FlightAware, and thousands of flights were cancelled.

    Due to the catastrophic weather anticipated, government employees in the Washington, DC metro region were sent home early.

    In a Facebook live briefing, Chris Strong, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said, “This does look to be one of the most impactful severe weather events across the mid-Atlantic that we have had in some time.”

    According to CBS News, 33 people and 14 children were stuck in their automobiles for several hours in Westminster, Maryland, which is located about 30 miles north of Baltimore, when powerful winds toppled more than 30 utility poles.

    In the area, wind gusts reached 60 mph, and emergency personnel had to save scores from flash flooding.

  • Italy coping with harsh weather, including wildfires, heat, and enormous hail

    Italy coping with harsh weather, including wildfires, heat, and enormous hail

    Italy is experiencing multiple types of extreme weather at once, with the north being blasted by fatal storms while the south being burned by sweltering heat.

    Italian authorities report that six people have died as a result of harsh weather just on Tuesday.

    Intense storms that slammed northern Italy early on Tuesday morning claimed the lives of a mother and a youngster when trees fell on them.

    In Sicily’s southern island and the seaside city of Reggio Calabria, flames resulted in the deaths of four elderly people.

    After storms caused extensive damage in the area, the fire department in Italy reported that they responded to 400 emergency calls for shattered windows, roof damage, water, and fallen trees.

    Tornadoes, powerful winds, and other severe weather have recently wreaked havoc in northern Italy. 100 people were hurt last week when tennis ball-sized hail fell in the Veneto area.

    The south is sweating under an extraordinary heat wave as storms affect the north.

    On Monday, temperatures in some areas of Sicily reached 47.4 Celsius (117.3 Fahrenheit), coming very close to the continent’s all-time high temperature of 48.8 Celsius, which was established in 2021.

    The environment is being prepared for fires by the heat; these fires have already claimed at least one life.

    An 88-year-old woman from Sicily perished outside Palermo as one of the four people killed by wildfires, a government spokeswoman told CNN. According to CNN station SkyTG24, the woman, who had major health difficulties, passed away because doctors could not reach her because of the wildfires.

    According to the Italian fire service, more than 40 fires broke out across Sicily on Monday night, including one at the Bellolampo landfill that released toxic vapours.

    A number of residences in the affected area have been damaged, and more than 1,500 people have been evacuated.

    The Falcone Borsellino airport in Palermo was closed for several hours on Tuesday owing to the flames, but it reopened later in the morning and major airline aircraft are now permitted to land and take off with significant delays.

    The Palermo airport administration reports that most low-cost planes have been redirected to the airport in Trapani.

    According to the Catania airport administration, operation at Sicily’s other main airport has been restricted following a fire in one of the terminals there last week. According to Reuters, Catania has also experienced electricity and water supply interruptions, possibly as a result of the intense heat.

    A large fire started in the San Felice harbour in Vieste, forcing the evacuation of 2,000 more guests from three hotels in the Puglia region.

    Nello Musumeci, Italy’s minister for civil protection and marine policies, stated on Tuesday that the country is going through extremely challenging circumstances.

    “We are currently experiencing one of the most challenging days in recent memory, with storms, tornadoes, and enormous hail in the North and sweltering heat and destructive fires in the Center-South. The firefighters, civil protection managers and volunteers, police forces, forestry workers, and all those who are mobilised in the most difficult circumstances deserve our gratitude, Musumeci said in a message on Twitter. “While we grieve the three victims of these twenty-four hours.

    Scientists agree that extreme weather events like heat waves and storms will only increase in frequency and intensity as the human-caused climate catastrophe worsens. According to a research released on Tuesday, the recent heat wave in southern Europe would have been “virtually impossible” without climate change.

    Italy is especially vulnerable since it is situated in the Mediterranean, a region that is experiencing rapid climate change.

    According to Musumeci, “the climate upheaval that has affected our country imposes a change of pace on all of us.”