Meteorologists and emergency officials are going to spend Tuesday surveying the damage to try to assign an intensity rating to the tornadoes that affected the state Monday afternoon.
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So far, the risk is lower than on Monday, when powerful storms spawned tornadoes across the Great Plains, killing two people in Oklahoma.
According to the Enhanced Fujita Scale, a tornado would register as an EF-3 when its wind gusts are between 136 and 165 miles per hour.
Severe weather ravaged several central states, destroying homes, farms, and lives.
The storm continued into adjacent Murray County where more damage was reported by Murray County authorities, Rhodes said.
A third tornado warning was issued about 5:15 p.m. for parts of Marshall and Bryan counties, according to the weather service.
Johnston County Emergency Manager Jason Bryant says another person was killed in a rural area near Connerville.
“I parked and went into the school, which has a safe room”, Lance said.
The Storm Prediction Center said it received about two dozen reports of tornadoes on Monday from parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and IL.
Sandy Weyers, the director of the Cass County Emergency Management office, said a homeowner didn’t make it inside by the time the tornado arrived so he grabbed onto a tree and “rode it out”.
Rhodes said Tuesday morning that preliminary assessments show seven homes were destroyed, four were heavily damaged and numerous outbuildings and farming and ranching structures were damaged or destroyed in Garvin County.
Jackie Brooks, 76, from Milburn, also died in the storms.
Roofs were ripped off homes, and an empty bus was blasted upward and left dangling in a tree, the channel reported.
On May 10, the severe weather is set to move east toward OH and Tennessee, with the possibility of hail, strong winds, and tornadoes.
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Another storm system should bring storms to the area from north Texas to near St. Louis on Wednesday.
