Powerful Storms and Tornadoes Punch Central U.S

ST. LOUIS - United States for Powerful Storms and Tornadoes in Central U.S. Strong storms over middle America back on Wednesday, roared with a weak tornado touch down in isolated spots and severe thunderstorm threat of strikes in many countries.

The National Weather Service issued tornado watches and warnings in a number a dozen countries, stretching northeast from Texas, though the Mississippi Valley to the Ohio.

"Everyone is so fast and furiously as possible work," Beverly Poole, meteorologist major, said the National Weather Service office in Paducah, Kentucky, Missouri and southern Illinois, covers the southeast. "This is just a wild ride."

There were no reports of deaths from the new round of storms, although authorities reported dozens of minor injuries after a brief tornado touchdowns in Missouri and Indiana.

Wednesday was followed by a deadly outbreak of storms Tuesday in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas, at least 15 people were slain. The nation's deadliest single tornado since 1950 125 slain on Sunday in the Southwest Missouri town of Joplin.

Heavy rain hit, hail and lightning Memphis on Wednesday night sounded like a tornado warning. Dark clouds showed some rotation, but there were no confirmed reports of tornado touchdown.

Southern Indiana authorities at least 12 people were not life-threatening injuries after a tornado east along U.S. 50 in Bedford got treated, flattening houses, barns and other buildings in the road.

"The guys on the ground is there to say it is a predominantly rural area, which is great news for the masses, but of course not the people in the neighborhood," said Sgt. Brian Olehy Indiana State Police.

It was also reported injuries, when a storm a mobile home park west of Bloomington hit, state police said. The authorities were on their way to the scene but had to clear branches and power lines downed by the first street.

The Herald-Times reported first responders in the field performing search and rescue efforts and that had a broken pipeline in the area.

Earlier in the day, as many as 25 people suffered minor injuries when a tornado hit a number of homes and businesses in the central Missouri town of Sedalia damaged. Officials said most of them to the hospital for treatment.

"Given the destruction that is in Joplin - is that we live in Tornado Alley and Sedalia's historic hit by tornadoes in the past - I think people notice that the warning," Pettis County Sheriff Kevin Bond said. "And I think that really helped."

Officials in the school Sedan ended a few days early because of damage to buses. meet in a tough neighborhood law officers were on the corners and crews of electrical power lines as people sifted debris and cleaned, along with stuff.

One of the houses was badly damaged the home of Priscilla McCabe, 61, and her 30-year-old son Sean McCabe, who was home when the tornado hit. Sean McCabe led to the basement and said the storm pushed him the last flight. He had scraps and cuts on the hands, wrists, back and feet. Blood was visible in the house, and was much disappeared from the roof of the house.

"I saw what I saw gross debris and then dirt, and I'm like OK, let's go," said Sean McCabe, a service dog has epilepsy. "All I could think about was the dog."

Law enforcement authorities reported late Wednesday destroyed a house in the rural town of Ellsinore Carter Circle, about 150 miles south of St. Louis.

In Illinois, tapped into a strong wind, rain and at least four tornadoes possible from power lines and damaged at least one house and several farm buildings in the central and eastern parts of the state.

"Usually shingles from roofs and garages," said Illinois Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Patti Thompson.

Storms and Tornadoes Attack St. Louis America Regions

ST. LOUIS - United States for Storms and Tornadoes. Storms and Tornadoes Attack St. Louis An accelerated fast-moving storm over the area around noon today, dumping rain and hail and knocking over trees and power lines.

Ameren Missouri reported about 60,000 customers on the Missouri side of St. Louis were without power about 3:30 pm, against a peak of about 68,000 just after the storm. About 11,000 Ameren Illinois customers were without electricity. Rescuers were reports of limbs, trees and power lines down have to do in the region.

In Granite City, said police Lt. Ray Takmajian there was major damage to limbs, trees, power lines and poles. A woman was slightly injured when a large branch fell, he said.

There was extensive damage to a company when the roof was taken and landed on a nearby house, 2301 Washington Street, said Takmajian. A few streets, Sunset Street and Ramona Avenue, were particularly hard hit, he said.

Straight line wind in the back of the union of a metal roof peeled Hall Brothers Lumber, like opening a sardine can, "said Dale Deck Elman, who works in sales. The roof covers an umbrella sheds, to the side, where wood was stored openly in the 500 block of North Washington Avenue. No one was hit in the storm in the late morning.

He estimated the building was 50 meters long and 20 meters wide and about 20 percent of the roof was withdrawn. Did he not lose the business of power and is open for business.

Visitors to the zoo in St. Louis were several buildings in the park when the storm blew throuth ushered in Forest Park. They were released but ordered back inside when a white-tailed deer ran on zoo grounds. The zoo staff is comforting to the deer.

At the Missouri Botanical Garden, uprooted trees damaged part of the Children's Garden, closed for the foreseeable future. The entire garden is secluded from the rest of the day.

Two workers on a demolition crew were injured when they tried to take a vacant building at 4256 West Aldine Avenue in St. Louis, and flew through the storm, according to police.

Authorities reported wires and branches in Wildwood, Ellisville, Creve Coeur, Florissant, and other parts of the region.

At a target store in Bridgeton, customers and employees on the back of the store for shelter when the storm passed. The lights went out, but later came back on. No one was injured, said a store employee.

At Maryville University, spent the whole day and evening classes canceled a power failure.

Metrolink reported delays of 10-15 minutes by storm debris on tracks.

The National Weather Service says there is a threat of severe weather for the St. Louis by Wednesday.

The main threat is large hail and damaging winds. Heavy rainfall is likely. St. Louis has a number of obsolete storms on Thursday.

The National Weather Service says he's ready - several rounds of severe weather are possible for St. Louis Wednesday night.

A frontal boundary will remain over northern Missouri and central Illinois until Wednesday night, wound up as a low pressure area to our west approaches slowly to a halt.

This front will serve as a hub for several rounds of thunderstorms and the maintenance of moist air over a large part of the bi-state region.

While some thunderstorms are possible during the day, increasing storm chances heading into tonight and Wednesday, the center of the storm system solutions.

Any storms that form can not be stronger, but the best chance for severe weather on Wednesday afternoon and evening, where a widespread outbreak of severe thunderstorms expected.

Besides severe weather, locally heavy rain may cause increases in the area streams, creeks and rivers.

the storms with hail, strong winds and possible tornadoes on Central and Southeastern Europe, Missouri and southern Illinois to predict. The National Weather Service says conditions are very unstable and can produce tornadoes.

Ben Miller, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Weldon Spring, said it is likely that a strong wind and hail early Wednesday predawm hours or come in the near sunrise.

Miller said the tornado threat would be later in the day Wednesday, late afternoon and evening.

"I'm not saying there is no threat in the early morning hours Wednesday, but the greater threat during the afternoon. With both systems, we could have tornadoes," added Miller.

Storm and Tornado come to Kansas City America

Kansas City - United States for Storm and Tornado. Kansas City of America Severe storms across Kansas and Missouri on Tuesday and Wednesday can be seen, including the potential for tornado destroyed Joplin, more severe weather.

The Kansas City metro area has improved a moderate risk of tornadoes and a 45 percent chance of hail. A few strong storms are on during lunch time and more all afternoon and the weather was expected during the night hours.

The Kansas Department of Emergency Management urges people who are willing to plan a tornado at home and disaster supply kit.

"I can not stress enough how important it is for people to take storm warnings seriously and ready," said Angee Morgan, deputy director of the Kansas Division of Emergency Management. "We have a tornado-related deaths had lost this year in Kansas. Life is too much. We can not tornadoes do not happen, but we prepare them for the loss of life to a minimum."

When preparing a home tornado plan, the Kansas Department Emergency Management offers the following advice:

• You can choose a place where families gather if a tornado is headed your way. It may be your basement or, if no basement, a center hallway, bathroom or closet on the lowest floor. Keep the space vacated.
• If you are in a skyscraper, you can not have enough time to get to the bottom floor. Choose a place in a hall in the middle of the building. Assemble a disaster supplies included at least three days: first aid kit and essential medications, canned food and can opener, at least three liters of water per person per day, clothing, bedding or sleeping bags, battery-powered radio, flashlight and extra batteries Special items for infants, elderly or disabled relatives, written instructions to turn off electricity, gas and water if authorities advise you to do.

The KDEM also asks residents to storm warnings on television and radio stay tuned.

Clock is issued when a tornado, the residents must KDEM said:
• local radio and TV stations to listen for further updates.
• Watch for changing weather conditions. Blowing debris or the sound of an approaching cyclone, you know. Many people say it sounds like a freight train.

If a tornado warning issued, said the KDEM:
• If you are, to a designated safe place you picked to protect yourself from glass and other flying objects. The tornado may be approaching your area.
• If you are outside, hurry to the basement of a nearby sturdy building or lie flat in a ditch or low lying area.
• When in a car or camper, get instant and go for safety.

Storms in the U.S. Heartland riots, claiming at least nine people in Arkansas, Kansas and Oklahoma, in what is now a historic spring storm season.

Wednesday was asked to contribute, the storm system to sleepless nights of Southwestern Iowa to central Texas, pelting many areas with a golf ball-size hail.

The fierce storms on another visit to Joplin, Missouri, where a tornado slain 124 people at the weekend, making it the single deadliest U.S. twister since modern records began 61 years ago.

The city was shortly after a tornado warning late Tuesday before it was raked by high winds and peppered with lightning.

Twisters in Dallas and several North Texas counties brewed according to the National Weather Service reported at least one tornado on the ground.

Arkansas Franklin County, a tornado landed shortly after midnight, leaving behind extensive damage, Steve Piltz, said forecasters with the National Weather Service in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

He killed at least one person, said the Arkansas State Police.

"We were impurities in the radar echoes we saw, and that gave us a good indication of the tornado was strong and big," Piltz, adding that the tornado was a half mile wide from anywhere for miles.

In Stafford County, Kansas, killed two motorists when an uprooted tree hit their van, according to the state Adjutant General.

The chain of deadly tornadoes that hit central Oklahoma at least five people slain in the Canadian province, hurt and destroyed dozens of homes and vehicles, officials said.

"Piedmont is the most affected area. There is more damage in the Piedmont region, for it is the most densely populated area," said after the Canadian County Sheriff Randall Edwards, whom he expects more deaths.

Authorities searching for a missing toddler said Wednesday.

"The 3-year-old was one of the three missing children," Edwards said. "We have two of the three will be found alive, but we have not yet found the third."

A large tornado crossed I-40 causes near El Reno, destroyed houses and a gas leak at a power plant west of the capital of the country, Edwards said.

Twenty workers were injured on an oil rig, to El Reno City spokesman Terry Floyd.

The twister injured motorists on I-40 and U.S. 81, said the Canadian province of Emergency Management Director Jerry Smith. There were reports of property damage in the area.

Another tornado was reported in Chickasha, about 40 miles southwest of Oklahoma City.

"It's a one day," Pastor Gary Rogers said of the Great Assembly of God Church in Chickasha. "We lost about half of our roof."

The church was empty at the time of the storm, "said Rogers." Thank God we were not (there). Nobody was there. "Twenty-four hours later, the church diligently with Wednesday.

State officials received reports of damaged businesses in Chickasha.

"It came right behind the company," said Nathaniel Charlton Chickasha AutoZone employees. "She had a bit of debris thrown in the parking lot. It was on the ground, but it was not bad."

The tornado crossed Chickasha damaged several other municipalities, including Newcastle.

About 1,200 people packed a shelter in Newcastle, a bedroom community near Oklahoma City during the storm, said City Manager Nick Nazar. "My life was saved."

About 100 people have been displaced and 50 houses were uninhabitable, said Nazar. Two or three stores were damaged as a primary school.

Statewide least 60 people were injured and 58,000 homeless, according to the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management.

Some employees of the Storm Prediction Center in Norman recently fled as a tornado approached, said a spokesman for the National Weather Service office.

Forces in the immediate aftermath of the storms were mobilized, "said Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin, Anderson Cooper.

"Does the National Guard, our Highway Patrol, our Department of Health, the Salvation Army, Red Cross, our first responders have been made about the situation," she said, given the massive outbreak of tornadoes that occurred on Tuesday evening.

Bad Weather come Dallas America Regions in 10 Day

Fort Worth - United States for America Bad Weather. Bad Weather come to Dallas America Three rounds of storms swept through North Texas on Tuesday, producing rain, hail, strong winds and unconfirmed reports of tornadoes.

"This is one of the largest storm systems in the affected area since 2007," said Mark Fox, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Fort Worth.

The storm was caused by "a large upper low moving into the area and a dry line so that the storm of fire," he said.

Storm sirens asked people to engage in Tarrant, Denton and Parker counties head and elsewhere in North Texas.

"We do not have the extent of the damage. We are just trying to keep people safe now know," said Juan Ortiz, emergency management coordinator for Fort Worth and Tarrant County, said about 20.00 hours.

A spokeswoman for Oncor, said the power was out to tens of thousands of customers knocked.

"The losses followed the path of the storm," said Ashley Burton. "Our crews as quickly and as safely as possible, working to restore power."

Azle

At least one tornado touched claimed in the Azle area.

"We heard reports of rain-wrapped tornadoes, rain so heavy that masks the Tornado," Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler said. "You do not know it is there to whip you."

About 9 clock, a pile of twisted metal that had to be on the roof of the Azle Arts Association Theater on the parking lot of Josefina's Mexican Cafe Sat Both companies, at the entrance of Texas 199, sustained substantial damage.

The roof hit the top of the cafe, where they destroyed air conditioning units, down a power line and hit the back of a Ford pickup before stopping.

About 20 people were at the time restaurants, but nobody was hurt, said the owner MaLuisa Raga.

Lisha Gregson, chairman of the Azle Arts Association Popcorn Players said the injury could not have come at a worse time.

"We have a game on June 10," Gregson said. "We pray for a roof."

Along the border towns of Denton and Arygle, two houses in the Lakes development at Crawford Road considerable damage, and nearby houses had minor damage, said police spokesman Denton Ryan Grelle. Funnel clouds were observed, but no touchdowns were reported, he said.

Arlington

The Rangers-White Sox Game Rangers Ballpark was 8.23 ​​clock stopped when the storm reached Arlington. Fans on the upper deck were first asked to move. Then were told to evacuate everyone.

About 9 clock had the Rangers fans transition from the central hall in the service tunnel to the clubhouse level.

Golf ball-size hail was reported elsewhere in the city.

D / FW Airport

Numerous flights were Dallas / Fort Worth Airport delays and hail up to 100 taxis damaged, beginning about 8 clock, said airport spokesman David Magaña.

Many leave the plane back to the terminal and the passengers got out before the storm arrived. The staff, they moved away from windows and in protected areas.

Large hail up to 100 stands at the taxi rank at the southern end of the damaged airport, Magaña said, but no injuries were reported.

Saginaw

Residents on the west side of Saginaw believe a small tornado tore down fences, shingles from roofs and broke the limbs Whisper Wood Estates near Old Decatur Road.

Melissa Chavez, who lives on the farm in January in her front yard taking pictures of the approaching storm of 19.30 clock, when she heard a noise like a freight train and felt a pressure.

"I tried to enter the house, but I could not open the door," she said. "Even with my son and brother-in-law's help, we could not open the door."

In the street, saw Rodney Lane movement in the air and went to the house. His neighbor's fence was abandoned, blown with part of her knocking the chimney of their roof.

He said his neighbors' fences are gone, and there are other minor damage. No damage was in the industrial zone of the city.

Northeast Tarrant

Throughout Northeast Tarrant County, hail, wind and rain were reported, but no rotating clouds or serious damage.

Ashleigh Whiteman, Hurst community relations manager, stood near a window, the scene around her house to describe. But she was never far from the inner cabinet she had prepared in case she needed better protection.

"It was really scary," she said. "Ominous. We were quite large hail like golf ball size, for 30 seconds to one minute. Our sirens about 8 hours, but we never saw a tornado. "

Colleyville City Manager Jennifer Fadden reported no major incidents, although they said the sky was "ugly" about 08.40 clock

"Back in the east, the clouds are very upset," she said. "We activated our outdoor warning sirens shortly before eight hours, as most of Tarrant County cities have done."

Colleyville received hail, strong winds and rain and a considerable amount of 08.45 hours was all over.

"We are delighted to be free from," said Fadden.

Staff writer Gordon Dickson, Sandra Angel Land, Terry Evans, Susan and Steve McFarland Norder contributed to this report.

Tampa, Florida

Storms swept through North Texas on Tuesday, making rain, hail, strong winds and unconfirmed reports of tornadoes. The bad weather DFW International Airport to try a treatment to the cancellation of more flights.

Bad weather caused the cancellation of more than 200 flights since Monday. has affected American Airlines, he said only 50-60 flights canceled on Tuesday, travelers trying to fly to Tampa International Airport.

Sabrina Haynes hours of waiting by the phone in Lakeland with her niece TIA fly. Kinesha King left Lawton, Oklahoma, a flight from DFW to catch on Monday.