Wyne, Arkansas — At least 11 people were killed by relentless tornadoes that tore across areas of the South and Midwest on Saturday. In addition, a heavy metal performance was disrupted in Illinois by the collapse of the roof of a full theater.
As part of a vast storm system that simultaneously delivered wildfires to the southern Plains and blizzard conditions to the Upper Midwest, tornadoes touched down throughout the night, destroying houses and businesses and tearing bark and limbs from trees.
Cross County Coroner Eli Long informed KAIT-TV that four people from the rural Arkansas town of Wynne were among the deceased. Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, and the Little Rock region also reported further deaths.
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She stated Friday night, “I’m in a panic trying to go home, but we can’t get home. “Wynne is completely destroyed. There are street-side trees and demolished homes.”
One person was killed and 28 people were injured, five of them seriously, when a tornado in Belvidere, Illinois caused the Apollo Theatre’s roof to fall while 260 people watched a heavy metal performance inside, according to officials.
According to Gabrielle Lewellyn, who had just entered the theater, people hurried to raise the portion of the ceiling that had collapsed and help people out of the debris.
“They pulled someone from the wreckage, and I sat with him, held his hand, and reassured him that everything would be well. I wasn’t really sure what else to do, “said Lewellyn.
According to the venue’s Facebook page, Morbid Angel, Crypta, Skeleton Remains, and Revocation were the bands set to perform.
James Pirtle, the director of emergency management for Sullivan County, Indiana, confirmed in an email that three more individuals were killed by the storms there. Around 95 miles (150 kilometers) southwest of Indianapolis, in the county seat of Sullivan, which is close to the Illinois border, several persons were reported missing.
Authorities reported at least one fatality and more over twenty serious injuries in the Little Rock region.
The western side of Little Rock, the state capital of Arkansas, was first devastated by the tornado, which also destroyed a small retail area that had a Kroger supermarket. After that, it crossed the Arkansas River into North Little Rock and the other cities, where extensive damage to residences, shops, and automobiles was recorded.
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Niki Scott, a resident of Little Rock, hid in the bathtub when her husband called to alert her about a tornado. When she came out, she could hear glass breaking and noticed that her house was one of the few on her block without a tree.
“That is exactly what everyone claims. It became quite silent before becoming very loud, “After that, Scott added as sirens sounded and chainsaws raged.
A verified fatality in North Little Rock was notified by authorities in Pulaski County in the evening.
Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders mobilized 100 National Guard soldiers to support statewide local authorities in their response.
According to county administrator Mac McCutcheon, a probable tornado damaged multiple structures in Madison County in northern Alabama and killed a lady. Moreover, the state emergency management organization verified one death and four injuries in Pontotoc County in northern Mississippi.
The tornadoes occurred only a few hours after President Joseph Biden visited the Mississippi hamlet of Rolling Fork, where last week’s tornadoes turned most of the town to rubble.
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An apparent tornado looked to have touched down close to a middle school and other areas, according to authorities in Tipton County, north of Memphis. Homes and other buildings suffered significant damage, according to sheriff Shannon Beasley’s Facebook post.
Eastern Iowa was also occasionally damaged by tornadoes. West of Iowa City, where the University of Iowa is located, one took a detour. In a video from KCRG-TV, fallen power poles, a roof torn off an apartment complex in Coralville, Iowa, and damaged residences in Hills, Iowa, were all visible.
Poweroutage.us, a website that records outages, estimates that almost 90,000 consumers in Arkansas were without power. Northeast of Peoria, Illinois, hail damaged glass on vehicles and structures, and more than 109,000 people lost power on Friday night. Moreover, Iowa, Missouri, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Texas reported outages.
As this was happening, blizzard conditions pummeled sections of Minnesota and Wisconsin, cutting electricity to some customers in the Twin Cities region, while the system suffocated a huge stretch of the country home to around 85 million people.
According to the state forest service, about 100 new wildfires were recorded in Oklahoma on Friday. On Saturday, firefighters planned to make progress in putting out these fires. Over the week, there will still be a risk of fires, especially in the state’s north and west.
Around El Dorado, Kansas, firefighters battled a number of fires, forcing some locals to flee, including roughly 250 elementary school students who were transferred to a high school.