tornado

By Le Figaro with AFP

Posted on 05/04/2023 at 21:19update on 05/04/2023 at 21:29

The Missouri was hit by a tornado on Wednesday April 5, which killed at least five people, according to authorities in this central United States state. “Five confirmed deaths“, said in a message to AFP Sergeant Clark Parrott, spokesman for the Missouri traffic police.

Footage from the local Fox 2 channel showed trees uprooted, houses blown away in the village of Glenallen in the southeast of the state. Several villages in Bollinger County”were hit by what appears to be a sizable tornado early this morningsaid county sheriff Casey Graham, further confirming the five deaths.

“Search operations (…) in progress”

«Throughout the morning and even now, our search and assistance operations are ongoing“, he continues on the Facebook page of the Bollinger County Sheriff’s Office. Tornadoes, meteorological phenomena as impressive as they are difficult to predict, are common in the United States, especially in the center and south of the country. Tornadoes and violent thunderstorms that swept through several American states last weekend killed at least 32 people.

Tennessee was particularly affected with fifteen deaths linked to severe weather, the emergency management agency of this southern state reported on Sunday. A week earlier, a tornado swept through Mississippi, killing 25 people and causing extensive property damage. President Biden was there.

By Le Figaro with AFP

Posted on 01/04/2023 at 00:11

A violent tornado hit Little Rock, the big city in the state of Arkansas, in the southern United States on Friday March 31, causing significant damage according to the authorities.

“Extensive damage has occurred in central Arkansas”said Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Twitter, who declared a state of emergency in her state. “I pray for those who were and remain in the path of this storm”, she added. Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott announced in a tweet that he asked the governor for help from the National Guard after a “devastating tornado.”

No human toll was immediately communicated by the authorities. The UAMS university hospital told AFP that it had placed itself on first level alert, expecting to receive many victims. Rescue services “have difficulty reaching people due to falling trees”said a spokeswoman for the hospital reached by telephone.

A “major weather event”

Videos of local journalists shared on social networks show a vast swirling black mass tearing the sky of this agglomeration of 200,000 inhabitants. Some 70,000 people are without electricity in Arkansas, according to the specialized site PowerOutage.us. The American weather services (NWS) had warned a few hours earlier of the imminence of a “major weather event” In the region.

Tornadoes, a meteorological phenomenon as impressive as they are difficult to predict, are common in the United States, especially in the center and south of the country. A week ago, a tornado swept through Mississippi, killing 25 people and causing extensive property damage. President Joe Biden visited the site on Friday. As of December 2021, around 80 people had lost their lives after tornadoes hit Kentucky.