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.
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“There’s a home where basically there’s no walls left”, Smith, the meteorologist, said.
Tuesday, crews from the National Weather Service will survey tornado-damaged areas and determine how many twisters actually occurred on Monday, weather.com reported.
News outlets near Mayfield, Kentucky, reported that homes and businesses in the area were damaged, and Kentucky State Police said at least eight people had been injured there.
The storms resulted in at least two deaths, one in Garvin County and one in Johnston County, and multiple injuries.
The state governments of Oklahoma and Texas in recent days have urged local residents to prepare for storm season, which officially begins on June 1, although tornadoes usually develop in May.
Smith says the National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma, sent survey teams Tuesday to at least six sites to investigate possible tornado damage.
An EF3 tornado carries wind speeds of 136-165 miles per hour. But communities along the Ohio River saw strong storms, and tornadoes were reported in southern IL and western Kentucky.
The developing storm system causing a chance for severe storms in southern Texas on Tuesday will move east on Wednesday and Thursday, taking the severe weather threat from the Plains to the Midwest.
Overall, There were more than 20 reports of tornadoes in five states on Monday evening, the Storm Prediction Center reported.
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The Oklahoma Office of Emergency Management reported the storms destroyed a radio station building in Coal County and an undetermined number of homes in Murray, Garvin and Johnston counties.
