Series of tornadoes kill 6, down power lines in US Midwest

Tornadoes fuelled by unusually warm air pummelled the south and midwest of the United States on Friday, killing at least six people and injuring dozens more across the states of Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois. The storm downed power lines and about eight thousand utility customers were left in the dark in Missouri on New Year's Eve, according to a spokesman for the Missouri Department of Public Safety.

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[WavesOfTrolls]

The U.S. will now wage a war against tornadoes and invade an oil rich country ruled by tornadoes.

[trje246]

@WavesOfTrolls Yes, indeed! but this big question is; how did these tornadoes slip past TSA security?

[Myaucat]

uh... this is in January??? looks more like April or something.... geez.. not one trace of a snowflake.

[usr027]

Illinois sasquatch Toro.. more on the way soon

[chriseben1]

So sad people. It is the system in any country that is corrupt, including the US. There are such innocent people all around the world. This is world is turning upside down. This all say one thing. "Enough is enough". Time to go home!!

[h95718]

WOW!!...  WOW!!... WOW!!...

[82Nikkis]

@roaringwaterbay It's kinda weird that Ohio is considered the midwest, too. I live right on the Michigan border, and I don't really understand why Ohio, or Illinois is considered part of the "midwest". We are not in the "mid" of the "west", we are closer to the eastern USA then the Western USA. We have very cold winters with blizzards, and very hot summers with tornados, we are not even close to the weather in the "western" states:)

[heckler171]

so sad god is destorying america and europe. burn this bad boy to the groud

[GuerreraZorra]

@RicosDomeTown For some reason I don't find this funny. Especially being that I have written on the hazards of HAARP not "HHARP"

[xRaz0rGRiZx]

Did it ever come to these people their minds for not constructing buildings in tornado area? And why don't we have some kind of tornado defence system, we have airplanes which are invisible and are absolutely soundless and a lot of crap which is only based to kill other people with, what about saving people for once..

[roaringwaterbay]

i thought the Midwest was Minnesota and Iowa. i guess Illinois is sort of the Midwest. i don't think that there really is a place called the "Midwest;" i mean, what exactly are its borders, if it has any?

[AtarahDerek]

The damage in this video footage is of the EF3 tornado that struck the Sunset Hills area of St. Louis. It was one of six EF3 tornadoes produced in this outbreak. All told, there were 23 confirmed touchdowns in this outbreak, with 47 total reports of tornadoes. This was an extremely intense outbreak, given the season. Six people were killed during the storms, and a seventh died of injuries later at a hospital.