The death toll continues to climb in Kentucky and Missouri as recovery efforts continue from a devasting night of tornados in the region.
LONDON, Ky. (AP) — Death toll from severe storms and tornadoes rises to at least 27, including 18 in Kentucky.
KENTUCKY/MISSOURI – […] Some of the hardest hit towns by large tornadoes Friday night in Kentucky were the Somerset area and London, where local officials reported nine people died amid significant damage.
The Laurel County Sheriff’s Office says the tornado touched down in London just before midnight and tore through two neighborhoods and the London Corbin Airport area, “causing mass casualties in its path.” Aside from the nine dead, officials reported “numerous severe injuries occurred to others.”
Video from London shows extensive damage with multiple homes destroyed and vehicles barely recognizable as debris littered the neighborhood and lightning still flashed in the background.
[…] The severe weather outbreak began earlier Friday in Missouri as supercell thunderstorms spawned deadly tornadoes.
St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer said at least five storm-related fatalities have been confirmed in her city. She implemented a city-wide curfew because over 5,000 homes were affected by the storms.
In Scott County, located about 2 hours south of St. Louis, the sheriff reported at least two storm-related deaths and multiple injuries.
“Today, our county was struck by a devastating tornado in the southern region, causing significant damage to several rural areas,” Scott County Sheriff Derick Wheetley said. The tornado moved from the eastern part of the county, leaving behind a trail of destruction, with multiple homes completely lost and areas left unrecognizable.” (more)
My condolences and prayers to all affected. The St. Louis tornadoes tracked a mere 1.5 blocks from my brother’s house in Clayton. No one in the family was injured. One of my SIL’s relatives had their chimney knocked down. My brother did not need his generator so he got it to his son and daughter in law so they would not lose all their food in their fridge. They feel blessed that the destruction just skirted their homes. Many prayers needed in St. Louis.
Joining you in prayer for everyone affected by these storms and tornadoes …
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From my brother in St. Louis this evening:
We are good. Cleanup goes on all around us.
We just went to a fundraising trivia night for Wellston Center that serves the poorest of the poor in North St. Louis. North StL was hit pretty hard by the tornadoes. It’s an area where people have very few resources, so the Wellston Center is crucial for food, close, work recommendations, money, vouchers, and a place of safety.
I occasionally volunteer there to clean up the grounds around the building.
For those inclined:
DONATE | Wellston Center
Thanks Fionnagh! I will get in touch with them.
Thank you too Fionnagh!
The words of our savior Jesus: “When you did this to the least of these, you did this to me.”
My brother lost his daughter to a fentanyl overdose. She used to volunteer at the Wellston center, and that’s why he volunteers to honor her memory.
From my brother:
North StL areas were hit, with many more homes destroyed.
EF3 136-165mph wind speed.
Sunny and calm today.
I lived in St. Louis 1962-1980, now live about an hour west on Hwy. 70. I saw pictures yesterday. Bricks laying everywhere. Those houses been thru many storms but that storm took many of them down. I will be donating to the Wellston center.
So sad. I cannot even imagine how scary it is.
prayers out for the people and the pets.
My late afternoon experience just a couple hours north of the devastation:
It was partly sunny/hazy, a little breezy. I had the back door open and the radio news station on. A chance of thunderstorms was forecast.
Out of nowhere it started hailing GOLF ball size, and the winds were so crazy it nearly ripped my locked storm door off. My house sounded like it was under attack with the noise. The pets were terrified. My friend about a mile over was stuck in his truck, freaked out, and called me to check on me.
Within a few minutes it was suddenly all over, and the sun came out, winds abated. There’s a lot of damage (and I’m still dealing with it). No tornadoes were reported, and other areas of town only got tiny hail. This is not normal.
We NEVER got an alert. Not on our phones, not on radio. The radio alert came about 20 minutes AFTER the storm had passed. NOAA used to be reliable about warnings of dangerous storms passing through the Midwest.
All things considered, we’re lucky here. Our poor neighbors a little south, God bless them. They need our prayers. And any help or funding they can get.
We have family living in the Williamsburg/Rockholds area and winds were 70 mph. I am shocked that they came thru without major damage or trees following as trees are in abundance. There are numerous trailers in the area as seen in the video.
We live south in TN and during the last tornado alerts, we did get phone calls on our landline phone telling us to seek shelter and also the cell phone alerts. We have listened to Ryan Hall Y’all on numerous occasions and I have no doubt he has saved many lives. His instructions for safety are outstanding.
Ryan is awesome.
The National Weather Service broke in to report a severe storm headed our way from about 30 miles over – about 20 minutes AFTER we were all already outside assessing the damage done. Unacceptable. None of us received a phone alert. No sirens either, but supposedly there were no tornadoes or funnel clouds.
While Midwest storms can pop up suddenly, they used to be really good about alerting when the conditions were ripe. I’ve also noticed over the past several years that the NOAA forecast page in my area reads like it was written by someone with ADHD and 3rd grade writing skills. Ridiculous. Weather is very serious stuff around here, and people’s livelihoods (and lives) often depend on it – but the reports and forecasts are worse than ever, despite all the technology. 🙁
FACT: The NOAA weather reports I’ve read for the past couple years look like they were written by DEI hires with ADHD, and a 3rd Grade writing level. It’s disgraceful. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
So, given the opportunity to scroll past and not be a dick, you choose to be a dick. Charming. Duly noted.
Some of the branches on this tree ought to be trimmed. Great reply, thanks!
What is way past annoying is they can’t tell you whether it will rain tomorrow, but we need to pay indulgences to a future that MAY have an increase temperature of point I percent! I am glad you are safe. Roofs can be fixed, but those memories are tough.
A couple of days before this storm my daughter in Kentucky said there was hail then rain then more hail. They are in Irvine, KY. The night of the storm she said she had never seen so much lightning.
Tornadoes in the night are the worst – can’t see them, they often strike without warning.
Prayers for all those effected continue to be raised.
I’m in mid-County St. Louis, approximately one mile south of where the tornado ripped through, and it started getting very heavy winds about 2:00.
It was all over so fast! Leaving a tremendous amount of storm debris in yards and streets, and, in the worst hit areas, big trees ripped out of the ground landing on cars, structures, and streets.
We’re grateful that the storm took the turn to the north just when it did, but the randomness of the destruction is as scary and awe-inspiring as its power.
BTW, Sundance – thank you for putting out an article about this. Hurricanes and FL are your forte, but there are such wonderful, salt-of-the-earth Midwesterners who deal with these devastating weather events and never get coverage.
Thank you, PJ, for pointing this out. I grew up in Tornado Alley (northern Kansas) where storms like this were never reported but happened often. Back then, I don’t believe the weather was engineered, but nature could sure turn nasty on a dime.
Twisting the cutlery are we?
There are people still in Hawaii, Cali, WNC that are in dire straits from their disasters. I have to say WNC has created a remarkable network and one day I will hope will teach others on how to do it. I hope these folks from Kentucky and Missouri will get help quickly.
I won’t mention the F word.
Prayers out to all including the pets.
Makes any of my -roblems seem pretty insignificant
may the Lord keep these folks safe
You’re sick, and your comments have been nothing short of disgusting ever since you recently landed in this Refuge.
I hope the admins’ Ban Hammer will soon find its way to your head.
The weather on my phone said there might be thunderstorms…. I was running errands without a care in the world.
The sky went green. No warning sirens. The wind, hail and rain only lasted a couple of minutes.
My son was directly in the line of the storm. His condo is on the top floor. The roof blew off causing water and structural damage. He is safe, but will be out his condo for many months. It missed my home by 100 yards.
The pictures do not display the devastation.
911 went down earlier in the week. “They” tested the Emergency Service the day before and it worked fine. (Why on a Thursday when they always test it the 1st Monday of the Month at 11am?) The links were posted on KSDK news yesterday, but do not easily appear today.
Have you ever seen hail the size of golf balls and some reports claim the size of baseballs?
They did not declare it was a tornado until 24 hours later.
Plenty of bad storms and tornadoes in STL in the past. Nothing like this.
Curious Cat here.
Praying for those who lost their loved ones and the homes.
None of this was “normal” – even by standards of crazy Midwest weather during tornado seasons.
But then again, they were spraying the skies non-stop for a week preceding the event to the extent that even those who don’t know about Geo-Engineering were wondering what was going on up in the skies.
We all have pics and videos of this abomination.
When white settlers started showing up in south central Nebraska, the local tribes told them to stay away from one area because it was regularly hit by tornados. So of course the whites built a city there. One of the more memorable moments was the night seven tornados hit the city.
Despite being part American Indian, I’m missing your point – unless this was just an interesting anecdote.
Humans can try to mimic what was already in place, like large scale tornado events. The computational power to make it really work needs massive data centers consuming lots of power. Up to now they are just dabbling around the edges with things they only partly understand.
Here in Western North Carolina since September we have had a hurricane , multiple forest fires , a very bizarre hail storm, now the locusts have arrived. Is there a message here?
Yes.
My friend in Bryson City is near you, so I’ve heard all bout it. It ain’t right.
I’ve seen eerie green skies before – in my case it preceded an EF2. One of those situations one never forgets.
Regarding hail – have seen baseball to softball size hail, when I was a child. Later we learned there was a large scale tornado that went past a couple miles away.
Supercells in particular can create amazing weather – and mind boggling destruction. Saw a blacktop road that an EF1 had crossed. It looked like satan’s claws had dug into the road, ripping large grooves in it and removing all the material on one side. It was the dirt being turned into a giant sand blaster by the tornado.
Thankful your son is well and join you in prayer.
Too tired when I wrote that – EF2 should be EF4 and EF1 should be EF5. Doh!
Warning system is strange.
God be with them.
Oh yeah and you voted for all the Democrats and look at what we got. You deserve everything you got for Voting the Democrat team..
My sincere condolences and prayers up for the people in Kentucky and Missouri. I am so sorry for your losses. Please, anyone in the area, let us know where we can send help, and what is needed. 🙏🙏
This is why we pray for protection every day. When we saw the video of the St. Louis destruction, we realized it just wasn’t moving. We’d seen enough and lived thru many Kansas tornados to know how horrendous they can be. God help these souls who have to rebuild and mourn those lost.
Listening to the description here of the storms how unannounced they were reminds me of the Joplin tornado of 2011.
It hit late in May took the city by complete surprise unaware no one prepared until it hit. I was there lost a house in that EF5 tornado.
It tore a path one mile wide on the ground for 21 miles it cut right through the city destroying schools hospitals etc I think it was on a Sunday evening.
“The Joplin tornado,[11] also referred to as simply the Joplin EF5,[1] was a large, deadly and devastating EF5 tornado that struck the city of Joplin, Missouri, United States during the evening hours of Sunday, May 22, 2011, causing catastrophic damage to it and the surrounding regions. As part of a larger late-May sequence of tornadic activity, the extremely violent tornado began just west of Joplin at about 5:34 p.m. CDT (UTC–05:00) and quickly reached a peak width of nearly 1 mile (1.6 km) as it tracked through the southern part of the city, before later impacting rural Jasper and Newton counties and dissipating after 38 minutes on the ground at 6:12 p.m. CDT (UTC–05:00). The tornado was on the ground for a total of 21.62 miles (34.79 km)…
A while back I looked at houses in the Joplin area. This was after the EF5 tornado. I was surprised at how few houses had storm shelters and/or basements. Is the water table too high in that area?
Heading across state to St. Louis in about an hour to visit a relative who moved in on Friday! When I called yesterday I said, “Welcome to Missouri,” she replied she’s used to this stuff. She moved from Virginia. Geez.
Will report back if any new info.
Prayers to everyone, for everyone, everywhere.
We are in Maryland and got a stream of severe thunderstorms hundreds of mile away.
So sad. I pray for all who were affected by this. Makes everything else seem, especially politics seem so meaningless. Life is precious, and too often taken for granted.
It was a scary night in Middle Tennessee, but absolutely nothing compared to Kentucky, Missouri, and Indiana.
Lord, hear our prayers for those who lost so much.
The weather forecasters are hyping up the next storm system coming in Tuesday. Sigh…
25 years ago Hurricane Elvis hit our house with 100 MPH straight line winds. Two trees came down and hit the house. One took out two vehicles and the other did over $100K in damage to the house with a limb barely missing my younger sons bed.
Sundance, we have to recognize that HAARP is causing many of these sever storms in the last ten years or more. RFK has said they are going to address the chemtrails and geoengineering. This storm in Kentucky and Missouri was definitely made much more severe from the microwave towers. Look up the microwave towers over the region they were blasting at full power right before the storm accelerated.
RFK Jr. said he’s aware of the problem and has looked into whether he could do something about it. Unfortunately, it is not within his purview. He believes it is DARPA. Much research has gone into this.
If you haven’t watched the documentary “The Dimming” yet, you should. You can find it on GeoEngineeringWatch.org or on Rumble. Catherine Austin Fitts is featured, and evidence of a variety of weather modification techniques is presented.
When you wake up in the morning, complaining to yourself because you have to go to work, clean the house or do yard work and then you hear about this… it makes you realize just how ungrateful you are for every normal day and how easily it can all be taken away.
Prayers to all..my heart goes out to you.
I am starting to become a believer in weather manipulation.
They big hail stones in Kentucky and unusually ferocious tornado?
I don’t know but here in WNC we had a hail storm a couple of weeks ago with large hail. Very unusual and more so as there was just this one huge black cloud that moved across a defined area….all around clear…very weird. And of course it is always the opposite of what is being said; they blame climate change when the only change is stupid corrupt humans attempting to manipulate the weather… with catastrophic results.