What to Know About the Deadly Tornado Outbreak

U.S.|What to cognize astir the deadly tornado outbreak.

• Dec. 11, 2021, 6:28 a.m. ET

What happened?

A tornado outbreak tore done respective states connected Friday night. At slightest 5 were struck, including Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee.

The tornadoes were portion of a upwind strategy that was wreaking havoc successful galore parts of the country, causing important snowfall crossed parts of the precocious Midwest and occidental Great Lakes.

Dozens of radical were killed.

Kentucky’s politician said that astatine slightest 50 had been killed successful a tornado’s way of implicit 200 miles, and that the state’s decease toll was apt to summation to much than 70 successful the coming hours.

In Arkansas, officials said that astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic astatine a nursing location was killed.

The storms caused a extortion to illness astatine an Amazon warehouse successful Illinois, leaving workers trapped inside. The authorities confirmed radical had died, but offered nary much item aboriginal Saturday.

What’s the harm like?

As of Saturday morning, much than 132,000 homes were without powerfulness successful Tennessee, astir 60,000 successful Kentucky, much than 25,000 successful Arkansas, astir 24,000 successful Illinois and astir 10,000 successful Missouri, according to reports compiled by PowerOutage.us.

The storms besides caused a freight bid to derail, though nary injuries were reported.