Tornado flattens buildings in Jonesboro, Arkansas

[Omaha Steve]

Source: CNN

By Ralph Ellis, Judson Jones and Gene Norman,

(CNN)A tornado struck Jonesboro, Arkansas, on Saturday afternoon, flattening buildings and overturning vehicles, CNN affiliate KAIT reported.

Jonesboro E-911 Director Jeff Presley told KAIT the Mall at Turtle Creek was damaged and authorities were conducting searches in the area.

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Images posted on social media from the scene showed broken walls on the exterior of the mall, a house heavily damaged, several overturned vehicles, commercial buildings knocked down and debris scattered across parking lots.

There were no immediate reports on injuries in the town located about 130 miles northeast of Little Rock. KAIT reported the mayor ordered a 7 p.m. curfew.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/28/weather/tornadoes-severe-storms-forecast-saturday/index.html

[Ahpook]

1. That sucks so much

I hate those things since I saw one ripping through the outer parts of my property, but missed my house. So freaky to see!

One of them ripped a tree in half with a diameter of probably 3 feet. The force to do that is insane.

Not only that, it flung that hunk of the tree 40 feet crashing with a thud.

Unreal!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

2. Same front moving through our area now - North central KY.

No little red tornado rectangles on the NWS radar right now but I'm getting heavy thunder-boomers and rain.

Lots of little red rectangles earlier through the Evansville and Owensboro areas.

This is quite a monster, stretching from Michigan to Texas. Wishing everyone touched by this storm a speedy recovery.


Locust swarm and meteor shower predicted for 3am...........

[rockfordfile]

3. Republicans really screwed that state up