In a White House statement, President Donald Trump said he was monitoring the tornadoes and storms, adding “36 innocent lives have been lost, and many more devastated.”
The storms that hit the South and the Midwest headed east on Sunday. More than 340,000 consumers had no power in the affected areas as of late afternoon on Sunday, according to the website PowerOutage.
Robbie Myers, the director of emergency management in Missouri’s Butler County, told reporters that more than 500 homes, a church and a grocery store in the county were destroyed. A mobile home park had been “totally destroyed,“ he said.
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves posted on X that six deaths had been reported in the state – one in Covington County, two in Jefferson Davis County and three in Walthall County.
In Arkansas, three deaths occurred, the state’s Department of Emergency Management said, adding that there were 32 injuries.
At least two people died in Alabama due to the severe weather, Governor Kay Ivey said in a post on X. “We have reports of damage in 52 of our 67 counties,“ the governor said.
Thirty-nine tornadoes were reported from Friday to midday on Sunday, but the number was not yet confirmed, according to the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center.
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