Tornadoes Sweep Across U.S., Killing 13 in Three States
Storm inflow moving south being sucked from the north in-
to a half-mile-wide tornado as it moves north in Oklahoma.
Violent thunderstorms with hail and tornadoes swept across the Plains, killing more than a dozen people, 48 hours after the deadliest U.S. twister on record leveled homes and businesses in Joplin, Missouri.
At least 13 tornadoes were reported in Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado and Virginia yesterday, according to the U.S. Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma. Two people died in Kansas, three in Arkansas and eight in Oklahoma, the Associated Press reported. At least 60 injuries were reported in Oklahoma and Kansas, according to the Weather Channel. Tennis ball-sized hail was reported in at least one storm, according to the weather service.
ABC News: Death Toll Reaches 13 in Latest Midwestern Storms - The death toll from the latest severe weather in Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas rose to 13 early Wednesday morning, while the National Weather Service reports that a tornado has "destroyed the full town" of Denning, Ark., killing three in the town which had a population of approximately 270. Over large stretches of the Midwest, including the ravaged city of Joplin, Mo., residents braced for a new wave of severe weather early Wednesday. Meanwhile, rescue workers in Joplin continued the search for survivors in the rubble left by Sunday's massive EF-5 tornado that has left at least 124 in the city dead and leveled at least 30 percent of the town of approximately 50,000.