Thread: At least 26 dead in massive US storm after Kansas reports 8 fatalities

Violent tornadoes ripped through parts of the U.S., wiping out schools and toppling semitractor-trailers in several states, part of a monster storm that has killed at least 26 people as more severe weather was expected late Saturday.


The number of fatalities increased after the Kansas Highway Patrol reported eight people died in a highway pileup caused by a dust storm in Sherman County Friday. At least 50 vehicles were involved.


Missouri recorded more fatalities than any other state as it withstood scattered twisters overnight that killed at least 12 people, authorities said. The deaths included a man who was killed after a tornado ripped apart his home.

“It was unrecognizable as a home. Just a debris field,” said Coroner Jim Akers of Butler County, describing the scene that confronted rescuers. “The floor was upside down. We were walking on walls.”

Dakota Henderson said he and others rescuing people trapped in their homes Friday night found five dead bodies scattered in the debris outside what remained of his aunt’s house in hard-hit Wayne County, Missouri.


“It was a very rough deal last night,” he said Saturday, surrounded by uprooted trees and splintered homes. “It’s really disturbing for what happened to the people, the casualties last night.”

Henderson said they rescued his aunt from a bedroom that was the only room left standing in her house, taking her out through a window. They also carried out a man who had a broken arm and leg.


Officials in Arkansas said three people died in Independence County and 29 others were injured across eight counties as storms passed through the state.


“We have teams out surveying the damage from last night’s tornadoes and have first responders on the ground to assist,” Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on X.


She and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp declared states of emergency. Kemp said he was making the declaration in anticipation of severe weather moving in later Saturday.

On Friday, meanwhile, authorities said three people were killed in car crashes during a dust storm in Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle.

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The USA set records yesterday with one of the deepest low pressure areas ever recorded. The tornados seem about two months early and there is plenty of heat down south to keep them going for another day. All what the climate scientists have been predicting.

According to the Dear Leader and his cultists Climate Change in just a hoax.

About 10% of the nation's climate scientists and meteorologists have been fired from NOAA and the NWS, with more to follow. While their work cannot stop this sort of event, they could help to predict it. We can expect more weather-related casualties in the future. Farmers, sailors, pilots and more will die in unpredicted storms because of an idiot with a chainsaw.