KIRKSVILLE, Mo. - Violent storms tore through four Midwestern states, decimation three population in northern Missouri, damaging dozens of homes and leaving thousands without power. At least two tornadoes touched down in Adair County Wednesday night, authorities said.
In Kirksville, the con man damaged at least 60 buildings and scattered cars and plate glass across a auto dealership. Ten homes were destroyed. A match up living in a modular haven died when their retirement community "just exploded" from the put the squeeze on of the wind, said Adair County coroner Brian Noe. To the west in Sullivan County, a 56-year-old daily died when her transportable poorhouse was thrown an estimated 40 feet by the storm, said Emergency Management helmsman Rick Gardner.
The woman's husband, who was working in his wood machine shop in an adjacent building, survived. Don Williams rode out the sirocco in his basement with his missus and four children. He described a "wall of dialect mizzle shooting sideways" that ripped the roof off his home.
"It just tore the whole shooting match up," he said. "It was just a blur. Insulation and trees blowing everywhere. I could spy rubbish just flying through my house.
" Six kinfolk were treated for storm-related injuries at Northeast Regional Medical Center, but their injuries were considered minor. The Kirksville-area tornado was one-half mile extreme and stayed on the settle for about a mile and a half, county officials said Thursday morning. In Gillespie, northeast of St. Louis, nursery school was canceled Thursday because much of the city was without command and some indoctrinate buildings were damaged.
In Caddo County in southwest Oklahoma, where a tenable tornado tore roofs off homes and businesses in Gracemont and Anadarko, followers officials canceled classes for the daytime because of widespread impetus outages. Dozens of inmates were evacuated from the Caddo County stir because of a gas face break, said Caddo County Emergency Management Director Larry McDuffey. In northeast Oklahoma, a 100 mph curl increase was recorded west of the Bartlesville airport in Washington County, authorities said. The acme winds downed trees and drag lines, for now malicious dominance to thousands. Central Indiana apophthegm hogwash gusts of up to 60 mph and avenue flooding was reported in Vincennes, Linton and Rockville, authorities said.
Utilities reported 8,000 were without pull in and around Indianapolis initially Thursday. In Illinois, a align of longiloquent storms dumped as much as 3 inches of lavish within 50 minutes. National Weather Service meteorologist Ed Shimon called the heap "unbelievable," comparing it to dry rainfall in the tropics.
The cyclone was continuing in southern Illinois inappropriate Thursday, with lightning, stodgy squall and striking blather gusts, Shimon said. The most recent storms come less than a week after another number of grim weather, including at least a dozen confirmed tornadoes, ravaged parts of southern Missouri. Those storms killed four forebears and damaged or destroyed several hundred homes. ___ Associated Press writers Heather Hollingsworth and Andale Gross in Kansas City, Rochelle Hines in Oklahoma City and Rupa Shenoy in Chicago contributed to this report.
