Several tornadoes would have addressed in certain parts of the South and Midwest on Wednesday, while people of several states began to feel the effects of a powerful storm system which was to last several days.
The tornadoes overturned the trees, disturbed power and damaged houses and businesses, said the authorities. The National Weather Service published Wednesday watches and tornado warnings in an area that extended from Arkansas to Illinois.
More than 200,000 customers from Indiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee were without power on Wednesday evening. More than half of them were in Indiana.
According to The Weather Service, nineteen tornadoes had been reported since Wednesday morning through Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky and Illinois. Nine were in Missouri.
On Wednesday, one would have approached Nevada, Missouri. Gary Edwards, the city director, said in an email that the damage was important. He was reported from an injury, he said.
In Arkansas, the meteorological service said he had a visual confirmation that a tornado landed in Almyra, a largely rural area. Lacey Kanipe, spokesperson for the Arkansas emergency management division, said the agency had received tornado reports on the ground.
In Kentucky, a tornado has just missed the meteorological service office in the city of Paducah, eliminating its main power supply, the agency said on social networks.
The storm system is from the West Coast on Monday and crossed the plains on Tuesday. But forecastists predicted that thunderstorms could produce destructive winds, a large hail and long -track tornadoes in an area which included parts of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas.
The forecasters warned that the storm system generating the tornadoes should be won Thursday and that 10 to 15 inches of rain could fall into certain parts of the South and Midwest over the next five days. This has prompted managers of certain states to issue flooding alerts.
Nazaneen Ghaffar,, Judson Jones And Yan Zhuang Contributed reports.
