There are at least 5 killed and many others hospitalized when tornadoes hit the South and Midwest

Three tornadoes in Hohenwald, Tennessee, one week after the twister left 25 deaths and one dead in Alabama and southwest of Indiana

The series of grueling tornadoes come just a week after a rare, long-lasting twister left 25 people dead in western Mississippi and one person in Alabama.

Two people were killed by a storm that destroyed homes and the volunteer fire department near Sullivan, a city about 95 miles southwest of Indianapolis. Matt Ames said something.

Janice Pieterick and her husband Donald Lepczyk were in their RV when they got the alert of an incoming tornado and rushed to her daughter’s home across the yard in Hohenwald, Tennessee, CNN affiliate WTVF reported. Minutes later, the tornado hit.

There were at least 22 tornadoes that were reported in Illinois, eight in Iowa, four in Tennessee, five in Wisconsin, and a couple in Mississippi.

William Williams, who told CNN affiliate KATV he’s an employee at a Kroger supermarket in Little Rock, said he’s “thankful to be alive” after a tornado rolled near the area while he was working Friday afternoon. He’d taken shelter inside the store, and went outside afterward to see people injured, including a woman he said had a severe leg injury.

“Everything happened in like five seconds. It came – boom,” Williams told KATV. There was a lot of commotion. It is crazy when I go outside. The people had blood on their faces. … I’m just thankful that I’m alive.”

A tornado warning warning for the Wynne area, Ohio, according to the Fulton County Emergency Management Center – an area with large hail and wind

The city of Wynne was mostly cut in half because of damage from east to west, according to the mayor.

More than 200 people were inside the Apollo Theater in Belvidere for an event when its roof fell, killing one person and injuring many more, the fire chief said. A line of storms with gusts of wind and hail moved through the area as the collapse came, according to officials. It is not known if the storm caused the theater’s roof to fall.

Tornadoes still could happen in southeastern Indiana, western Ohio and northern Kentucky on Saturday through 5 a.m. ET, according to the Storm Prediction Center. The area was under a tornado watch and warned of winds up to 70 mph with large hail.

The Fulton County Emergency Services and Disaster Agency posted on their Facebook page that large hail caused significant damage to cars in northern Illinois on Friday.

About 78 miles southeast of there, several businesses were “basically destroyed,” Sheriff Jack Campbell told CNN, and up to 40 homes were damaged around Sherman, less than 10 miles north of Springfield.

Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses were also without power across the South and Northeast, including 134,000 in Pennsylvania and nearly 86,000 in Ohio, according to poweroutage.us.

The governors of Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, and Arkansas declared emergencies in order to provide immediate assistance for affected counties.

The Damage and Loss of our Community During the October 11th Tragic Event, Adamsville, Tenn., is “Impassable”

The damage and loss that our community experienced last night was catastrophic, the Adamsville Police Department said in a statement.

In Covington, Tenn., the local police department said the city was “impassable” in the wake of a tornado. Homes were battered, power lines were downed and search and rescue teams were deployed, according to police.

There were no deaths as of Saturday afternoon in Little Rock, Arkansas. Efforts are now focused on recovery and rebuilding, Mayor Frank Scott Jr. said.

About 260 people were at the venue to attend a heavy metal concert and calls about a collapse began to come in at 7:48 p.m. local time, Belvidere Fire Chief Shawn Schadle told the AP.

“Our worst fear has become a reality now that we have learned that people have perished in our community,” the Sullivan County Sheriff said.

The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said one person has died and four others are injured due to severe weather.

Devastated communities across the South and Midwest were picking up the pieces and digging through debris Sunday after ferocious storms and tornadoes leveled neighborhoods and left at least 22 people dead.

At least seven people are reported to have died after two separate lines of storms hit Tennessee.

In nearby McNairy County, where multiple deaths have been reported, sheriff Buck said the death toll could have been much higher if residents had not heeded early warnings and sought out proper shelter.

Four people were killed in Illinois, three were killed in Sullivan, Indiana, and four people died in Arkansas.

In addition to leaving trails of destruction across several states, storms have also knocked out power to battered communities, including over 30,000 customers affected by outages in Arkansas, according to poweroutage.us.

I don’t know how to use it. It was devastating. It is vastly different seeing it firsthand than it is when it is on TV.

Residents of Wynne, a community of about 8,000 people 50 miles (80 kilometers) west of Memphis, Tennessee, woke Saturday to find the high school’s roof shredded and its windows blown out. The huge trees had their stumps reduced to nubs. Businesses and homes were damaged by broken walls and windows.

She and the children were made to get into the bathtub so they wouldn’t get injured. We all hunkered down because all the doors blew out. The glass on the windows has double doors in the front and back. All blew out at the same time.

State Police confirmed that one person died inside a house damaged by tornadoes in Bridgeville, New Jersey, Sunday night after a school shooting in Adamsville

The death toll if they had not taken care of us would have been in the hundreds. The power of mother nature does not have to be underestimated.

Earlier storms tore a path through the Arkansas capital, collapsing the roof of a packed concert venue in Illinois and stunning people throughout the region Saturday with the damage’s scope.

The White House announced Sunday that it would provide federal resources, including financial assistance, to support recovery efforts after President Joe Biden issued a major disaster declaration.

The National Weather Service was looking into reports of tornadoes in New Jersey and Delaware, where severe weather prompted warnings across a widening area. Numerous homes were damaged and roadways shut down in southern Delaware, authorities said.

One person was found dead inside a house heavily damaged by the storm Saturday night in Bridgeville, Sussex County, Delaware State Police reported. However, the exact cause of death was not immediately known.

Debris lay scattered inside the shells of homes and on lawns: clothing, insulation, toys, splintered furniture, a pickup truck with its windows shattered.

Ashley Macmillan said she, her husband and their children huddled with their dogs in a small bathroom as a tornado passed, “praying and saying goodbye to each other, because we thought we were dead.” A falling tree seriously damaged their home, but they were unhurt.

Gov. Bill Lee drove to the county Saturday to tour the destruction and comfort residents. He said the storm capped the “worst” week of his time as governor, coming days after a school shooting in Nashville that killed six people including a family friend whose funeral he and his wife, Maria, attended earlier in the day.

Lee said, “It’s terrible what has happened in this community and this state.” “But it looks like your community has done what Tennessean communities do, and that is rally and respond.”

Jeffrey Day called his daughter after seeing that Adamsville was being hit. She was in the closet with her son when the storm hit.

After the storm passed, his daughter crawled out of her destroyed home and over barbed wire and drove to nearby family. On Saturday evening, baby clothes were still strewn about the site.

Source: https://www.npr.org/2023/04/02/1167650510/tornado-damage-south-midwest

A tornado-damage south-midwest tornado in Crawford county, Illinois, killed three people and eight injured, and the mayor of Sullivan

I told him that it was going to be okay after I sat with him. I didn’t really know much else what to do,” concertgoer Gabrielle Lewellyn told WTVO-TV.

The Apollo was cleaned up on Saturday. Business owners picked up glass shards and covered shattered windows.

In Crawford County, Illinois, three people were killed and eight injured when a tornado hit around New Hebron, said Bill Burke, the county board chair.

“We’ve had emergency crews digging people out of their basements because the house is collapsed on top of them, but luckily they had that safe space to go to,” Rutan said at a news conference.

The mayor of Sullivan stated that the area south of the county seat is “very different” and that several people were rescued overnight. There were reports of as many as 12 people injured, he said.

The National Weather Service said that tornado was a high-end EF3 twister with wind speeds up to 165 mph (265 kph) and a path as long as 25 miles (40 kilometers).

When it roared through his neighborhood, he hid in the laundry room as sheetrock fell and windows shattered. The house was largely empty when he came back.

Source: https://www.npr.org/2023/04/02/1167650510/tornado-damage-south-midwest

Multiple tornadoes in Madison County and Pontotoc County, Mississippi, and howell Township, New Jersey, reported by NJ.com

Another suspected tornado killed a woman in northern Alabama’s Madison County, officials said, and in northern Mississippi’s Pontotoc County, authorities confirmed one death and four injuries.

It could take days to determine the exact number of tornadoes from the latest event, said Bill Bunting, chief of forecast operations at the Storm Prediction Center. He said there were hundreds of reports of hail and damaging winds.

The storm system brought a few fires to the southern Plains, with authorities in Oklahoma reporting nearly 100 of them Friday. At least 30 people were injured, and more than 40 homes were destroyed.

Meteorologist Eric Hoeflich told NJ.com late Saturday night that another tornado may have struck in Howell Township, New Jersey, where heavy tree damage was reported and video footage appeared to show a funnel cloud amid flashes of lightning.