Powerful spring storm ravaged parts of the American South Friday, toppling trees, smashing buildings and killing at least nine people, including two sets of parents and children who were packed as winds rage outside their home.
It is the deadliest storm of the season so far. Several tornadoes accompany the assault, but much of the damage was attributed to straight-line winds - sudden and violent descendants who struck with hurricane force in the middle of the night.
Forecasters warned of approaching danger as much as three days earlier, but winds up to 130 km/h and repeated lightning cut a path of destruction through a region so accustomed to the weather that many people ignored the risk - or slept through it.
The storm began late Thursday in Oklahoma, where at least five tornadoes touched down and two people were killed. Then, the system has been in Arkansas, killing seven other. Dozens of others were injured.
Around noon Friday, the storms marched in Tennessee, Louisiana and Mississippi. At least three tornados landed in the Mississippi River, causing widespread damage that serious an injury but.
Governor of Arkansas Mike Beebe stated that he had never seen the State suffer as many deaths from straight-line winds. Tornadoes and floods cause most of the Arkansas storm-related deaths.
A six-year-old boy was killed in this House Friday near bald Knob, Ark, a tree was blown. (Warren Watkins/daily citizen/Associated Press)"Just trees blowing on the homes of the people - I don't remember anything even approaching,"Beebe said.""
Unlike tornadoes, which develop from the columns of air in rotation, wind straight eruption of a thunderstorm in the unpredictable downdrafts, then spread across the landscape in all directions.
The National Weather Service crews worked Friday to learn more about what caused the damage.
Crystal Springs, Ark, lightning split a tree that falls in a House, killing a young girl of 18 months and his father as they slept. In Little Rock, winds knocked a tree into a House, killing a woman and her eight-year-old son in his bed.
Arkansas town of bald Knob, aged six years Devon Adams died when the top of a tree more in diameter crashed through his home while he slept.
Residents of the small town of Tushka, Okla., asked what would become of their community after a tornado damaged or destroyed nearly all the houses along the two main streets. The only school - a collection of buildings housing the kindergarten to grade - has virtually disappeared.
"It is difficult to treat because we are a small community with limited resources." "It is difficult to clean," said Mayor Brickie Griffin.
At least 25 people were injured as tornado plowed through the town of 350 before dawn. At least a dozen homes and businesses were destroyed.
The school was to remain closed for the rest of the academic year and officials sought an alternate place hold classes.
Gilbert Wilson, Atoka County Emergency Management Director, said witnesses reported seeing two tornadoes merged into a single twister. The weather service confirmed that a tornado struck the area.
The owner of the trailer manufacturing plant Atoka said that it would cost millions of dollars to rebuild the plant, trailers for the transportation of heavy equipment.
"Twenty-four hours earlier, it was a lourdes of 80,000 square foot manufacturing plant." At the moment, it is a pile of rubble, "Said Ryan eaves." "This building was a bright light spot for the community." To think that he could be overtaken as is huge. ?
He said that it would be shifts for employees in 60 of the plant to another plant five kilometres away.
A strong gust of inverted wind descending said authorities apparently a mobile home, killing an elderly woman of 64 years in the County of St. Francis, in eastern Arkansas.
In Little Rock, the storm intensified shortly before 2 o'clock in the morning, the capture of many people to fall asleep. But city sirens have been wailing when weather hit.
A man was killed when a tree fell on his recreational vehicle.
A woman identified as a nurse and her eight-year-old son died when an oak tree fell in the bedroom of the boy. A baby sleeping in a nearby room was not injured, said the police.
At dawn, the tree still leaned against the rear Chamber of the House, exposing some of the treasures of the boy: a frog soft toy, a toy truck.
Some of his nursing colleagues of women huddled around her sister out of the House.
"It is even coming close to the House," said Theresa Travis, a doctor who has worked with the dead woman who had not been publicly identified.
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