(Sputnik) - A significant tornado outbreak threatens four US states in the next two days, the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center said in a notice on Wednesday.
At least 13 people were killed in weekend storms that brought tornadoes and flooding to the South and Midwest and also dumped a rare late-season blizzard in western Kansas.
A powerful storm system on Wednesday hit the US east coast after striking Gulf states on Tuesday, killing at least three people in Virginia and causing mass power outages across the region.
At least 11 people were killed as tornadoes ripped through Texas, according to authorities who searched house-to-house Sunday for additional victims of the freak storms lashing the southern United States.
At least 11 people died and dozens were injured in severe storms and tornadoes that continued to hit parts of the southern U.S. states of Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas on Thursday.
A clean-up operation started on Wednesday in Sydney’s southern suburb of Kurnell after two massive thunderstorms hit the Australian coast, damaging power and sewage lines, a local emergency service said.
Multiple rounds of severe thunderstorms capable of producing tornadoes
are ravaging across the US Midwest Monday, affecting nearly 50 million
people in the states from Ohio, Wisconsin to Kentucky.
A small and fast-moving tornado hit the area where a Chinese cruise ship capsized leaving more than 400 missing, weather officials said, possibly shedding light on the disaster's cause.
MEXICO CITY, May 25 (Xinhua) -- At least 13 people died after a violent tornado hit northern Mexico border city of Ciudad Acuna, said a government minister on Monday.
Nearly three dozen homes were destroyed Wednesday after a series of tornadoes struck the midwestern U.S. states of Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska Wednesday.
CHICAGO: A fast-moving storm system that produced at least one tornado in Illinois threatened some 53 million people across 10 Midwestern states on Sunday, US weather officials said.
"A confirmed large and extremely dangerous tornado" was spotted near Washington, Illinois, located about 145 miles (233 kilometers) southwest of Chicago, the National Weather Service said.
Photos taken at the scene showed structures were reduced to rubble and houses ripped open in Washington, Illinois.