As residents in at least five U.S. states assessed the damage on Saturday from a spree of powerful storms and tornadoes, forecasters warned of more inclement weather looming across the country.
Severe storms, tornadoes and damaging wind gusts were likely to occur from the Lower Mississippi Valley to the Ohio Valley into Saturday, the National Weather Service said in an advisory at 3 a.m. Eastern time. It said the system would also produce heavy snow over the Upper Great Lakes and rain over parts of the Northeast.
At least five states were swept by tornadoes on Friday, including Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee.
On Friday night, the Weather Service issued tornado warnings for several counties in eastern Arkansas and southeastern Missouri. Forecasters said they expected that system to move into Ohio, eastern Kentucky and eastern Tennessee.
The National Weather Service office in Nashville said early Saturday that tornado warnings were in effect for several Tennessee counties, and that a “large and extremely dangerous tornado” was moving northeast at 60 miles per hour near over Kingston Springs, about 30 miles west of Nashville.
