The tornadoes were part of a weather system that also caused substantial snowfall across parts of the upper Midwest and western Great Lakes. William Widmer for The New York Times What happened?Ī tornado outbreak tore through six states on Friday night: Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee. The Dawson Village Apartments complex in Dawson Springs, Ky., which sustained catastrophic damage after the tornado. The tornadoes tore through parts of Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee, said Bill Bunting, the operations chief at the Storm Prediction Center, part of the National Weather Service. The first tranche of grants would be given to help cover funeral costs, he said. More than $2 million had been donated to help with recovery efforts, the governor said. They’re going rubble to rubble,” looking for survivors and other victims. They are, he said, “going door-to-door, though many of these communities don’t have doors anymore. Of the tornado’s more than 220 miles of destruction, he said, “200 of them are in my state, with our people who have suffered from it.”Īt least three tornadoes were believed to have hit Kentucky on Friday night, the governor said, before adding that, “I think we now believe many, many more.”Īt least 300 National Guard members were deployed in the state, the governor said. history, from the point where it touched down to when it finally picked back up.” Beshear “ultimately be the longest tornado in certainly U.S. The largest of the tornadoes that ripped through six states will, according to Mr.
Kirby said in an interview on Sunday afternoon.
“There’s a lot of people injured and in hospitals,” Mr. In Warren County, where about 12 people were killed, including several children, the process of identifying victims has been slowed because the people who could make those identifications are themselves recovering from injuries sustained in the storm, according to the county coroner, Kevin Kirby. “We’re still finding bodies,” and “we’ve got cadaver dogs in towns that they shouldn’t have to be in,” Mr. “The best that I think we can hope for would be the fifty, but I think it’s going to be significantly worse than that.” At least four counties in Kentucky have death tolls “in double digits,” Mr. Beshear braced the public for more deaths to be announced in the days ahead. Officials in Edwardsville, Ill., said on Sunday that there were no more reports of people missing inside the Amazon facility, but search efforts for additional victims continued. How could one anticipate something like that? This is a true, true act of God.”Īt least six people were killed an Amazon warehouse in Illinois. “Early reports are that this tornado stayed on the ground longer than any tornado in history. “It looks like this is the strongest tornado to ever hit Kentucky,” he said in an interview.
Ferguson said that the manufacturing facility sustained damage from a tornado of unusual strength. There has not been a “live rescue” at the factory since 3:30 p.m. “I am praying that maybe original estimates of those we lost were wrong,” Mr. He said state officials had not confirmed any new numbers provided by the company. Andy Beshear of Kentucky had said earlier Sunday that 110 employees were thought to be in the factory at the time of the disaster, and only 40 people had been rescued. “Thank God that’s not proving to be true.” In the early hours after the storm, it had seemed like “dozens and dozens of people were in the rubble,” said Bob Ferguson, a spokesman for the candle company. Troy Propes, the chief executive officer of Mayfield Consumer Products, said in an interview that eight employees were dead and six were still missing - far fewer than the 70 initially thought to be unaccounted for after the Friday night storm. The number of people reported missing at a candle factory in Mayfield, Ky., after a devastating tornado was lowered Sunday evening after company officials said that most of the employees had now been accounted for.
150 CARDINAL LAND FALLS OF ROUGH KY SERIES
An American flag is placed in a tree trunk after a series of tornadoes ripped through 200 miles in Kentucky.
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