Heavy weather in the middle west leaves 9 dead in Kentucky, 7 killed in Missouri

The spokesman Gilbert Acciardo said the rescuers were “all night on the floor on the floor for possible survivors. We continue to do so.”

The Tornado, which tore across the largely rural area and extended to London Corbin Airport shortly before midnight.

“Tonight has changed here forever. This is a time when we come together and we pray for this community,” London Mayor Randall Weddle told WKYT-TV. “I never personally saw what I saw here tonight. There is a lot of devastation.”

Missouri struck through storms with deaths in St. Louis confirmed by

The storms were part of a weather system on Friday that killed seven in Missouri and also produced Tornados in Wisconsin, left several hundred thousand customers without electricity in the Great Lakes region and brought a punishing heat wave to Texas.

The mayor of St. Louis, Cara Spencer, confirmed five deaths in her city and said that more than 5,000 houses were affected.

“This is really, really devastating,” said Spencer, adding that the city was in the process of declare an emergency and had been set up in the neighborhoods with the greatest damage overnight.

The number of injured people was not immediately known. The Barnes-Jewish Hospital received 20 to 30 patients from the storm with some in a serious state and expects the spokeswoman for the Laura High hospital to be released on Friday evening.

The St. Louis Children's Hospital received 15 patients, two of whom had expected to stay in the hospital until the weekend, she said.

The National Weather Service Radar stated that a tornado in Clayton, Missouri, was increased in the area of ​​St. Louis, in Clayton, Missouri. The apparent Tornado landed in the Forest Park area, where the St. Louis Zoo and the place of the World Mass and the 1904 Olympic Games were located in the same year.

In the centennial Christian Church, William Pollihan, head of the fire brigade of the city of St. Louis, told the Associated Press that three people had to be saved after part of the church collapsed. One of these people died.

Stacy Clark said his mother -in -law Patricia Penelton died in the church. He described her as a very active volunteer of the church that had many roles, including part of the choir.

Jeffrey Simmons Sr., who lives opposite the church, heard a warning on his cell phone and then the lights went out.

“And next you know a lot of noise, heavy wind,” he said. He and his brother went into the basement. He later realized that it was worse than he thought. “Everything was torn open.”

On Friday afternoon, the commuting trees and the officers set up people to stay at home.

John Randle, a 19-year-old University of Missouri-St. Loui's student, said he and his girlfriend were in the St. Louis Art Museum during the storm and were glued into the basement with about 150 other people.

“They could see how the doors fly openly, tree branches fly by and people run,” he said. “Many people were caught outside.”

Christy Childs, a spokesman for Saint Louis Zoo, said in a text that the zoo on Saturday would remain closed due to the trees and other damage. The children said that all animals were safe and there were no reports of significant injuries for employees, guests or animals.

“We definitely can't say whether it was a tornado or not – it was probably,” said the meteorologist of the National Weather Service Marshall Pfahler.

A tornado, which was hit in Scott County, about 209 kilometers south of St. Louis, killed two people, injured several others and destroyed several houses, wrote Sheriff Derick Whetley on social media.

Say forecastics

“Heavy thunderstorms that produce large to very large hails, gusts and a few tornados are expected in the southern levels,” said the Storm Prediction Center of the National Weather Service on Saturday. The risk was particularly high for North Texas.

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Haya Panjwani in Washington, DC, Heather Hollingsworth in Kansas City, Missouri, and Lisa Baumann in Bellingham, Washington, have this story with the Associated Press writer.

Michael Phillis, Corey Williams and John Hanna, The Associated Press