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Chicago: Tornadoes
spawned by a powerful storm system swept central US, wiping out
two small towns and killing at least 28 people, media report said
Friday.
In Indiana, 14 people were killed. The entire town of Marysville
was destroyed, and nearby Henryville also suffered extreme damage.
In Kentucky, the storms claimed 12 lives and inflicted extensive
property damage, reported Xinhua.
Storm warnings were being issued across the Midwest and the
Southeast, with schools, government offices and businesses
shutting down ahead of the storms.
There was "extensive damage" to the Henryville Junior-Senior High
School in the Clark County, Indiana, according to Maj. Chuck Adams
of the county sheriff's department.
The school building's roof was torn off, with parts of the walls
knocked down and windows blown out.
Students who remained at the school when the disaster struck
suffered only minor injuries such as cuts and bruises.
National Weather Service meteorologist John Gordon said they had
about "half a dozen reports of tornadoes on the ground" as well as
reports about "significant damage". He warned that the worst might
come.
The storm system has also buffeted the south, hitting Alabama and
Tennessee with apparent tornadoes that left houses shattered and
businesses damaged.
Properties suffered extensive damage, with lots of trees torn
down, and a definite path of damage was left by the tornadoes.
Residents were assessing damage to a high school, a prison and
other locales.
Authorities in Alabama and Tennessee confirmed dozens of
weather-related injuries, but no deaths.
The first tornado outbreak of the week began Tuesday night and
left 13 dead across Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Tennessee, and
battered parts of Kentucky as well.
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