Fierce Storms Spawning Tornadoes Kill at Least 18
Posted on: Mar 16, 2025 05:11 IST | Posted by: Nytimes
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A wicked endure scheme spawned vivid, long-duration tornadoes that struck parts of Arkansas, Mississippi and Missouri, leaving some communities in tatters.
Judson Jones is a reporter and meteorologist at The Times.
The storms that killed at least 18 people across Arkansas, Mississippi and Missouri on Friday and Saturday continued to pummel a vast section of the South, leveling homes, taking down power lines and turning communities into debris fields.
Before the intense and long-lasting tornadoes arrived, forecasters said that their level of threat was typically experienced only once or twice in a lifetime.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported 12 fatalities in the state as of Saturday afternoon, with six in Wayne County, three in Ozark County, one in Butler County, one in Jefferson County and one in St. Louis County.
In Arkansas, three people were killed in Independence County, and 32 others were injured across the state, according to the Arkansas Division of Emergency Management.
Three people died in Southern Mississippi, about 80 miles south of Jackson, Jordan Hill, the police chief in Tylertown, Miss., said in a statement to television station WWL. One of those killed was a juvenile, Chief Hill said.
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Source: National Weather Service | Notes: Reports are considered preliminary. Data is for the 48 hours starting March 14 at 8 a.m. Eastern, during which updates are being made every 10 minutes.
By Julie Walton Shaver and John Keefe
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