More than 30 tornadoes struck at least six states overnight Friday, over 70 people may have been killed in Kentucky alone
First responders surround a damaged Amazon Distribution Center in Edwardsville, Illinois after it was struck by a tornado on Friday night. Photo: Michael Thomas/Getty Images At least dozens of people are feared dead after more than 30 tornadoes struck at least six states overnight Friday amid an extraordinary extreme weather system which sped across a span of hundreds of miles.
As many as 100 feared dead in Kentucky Four tornadoes touched down in the state, and Kentucky governor Andy Beshear estimated early Saturday that between 70 to 100 people were killed across at least four counties. Dozens of people were likely killed at a candle factory in the town of Mayfield after the building’s roof collapsed, Beshear said, explaining that 110 people were working in the factory when the tornado struck the town.
“When I got to this area, it was flashing lights in every direction. Trees down, roads impassable,” Michael Gordon, a storm chaser on the ground, told CNN. “It looked like a war zone.” This drone footage shot Saturday morning gives a sense of the destruction in downtown Mayfield:
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