Authorities say a theatre roof collapsed during a tornado Friday night in Belvidere, Illinois, and that injuries have been reported.
At least one person was killed and more than two dozen were hurt, some critically, in the Little Rock area, authorities said. The town of Wynne in northeastern Arkansas was also devastated, and officials reported two dead there, along with destroyed homes and people trapped in the debris.
The destructive weather came as President Joe Biden toured the aftermath of a deadly tornado that struck in Mississippi one week ago and promised the government would help the area recover. Mayor Frank Scott Jr., who announced that he was requesting assistance from the National Guard, tweeted in the evening that property damage was extensive and “we are still responding.”
Outside a Guitar Center, five people were captured on video aiming their phones at the swirling sky. “Uh, no, that's an actual tornado, y'all. It's coming this way,” Red Padilla, a singer and songwriter in the band Red and the Revelers, said in the video. St. Francis County Coroner Miles J. Kimble told the AP by phone Friday night that he was assisting the Cross County coroner in Wynne and that two people died there in the tornado.
City Councilmember Lisa Powell Carter told AP that the town Wynne was without power and roads were full of debris. Tornadoes moved through parts of eastern Iowa, with sporadic damage to buildings. Images showed at least one flattened barn and some houses with roofing and siding ripped off. The National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center had forecast an unusually large outbreak of thunderstorms with the potential to cause hail, damaging wind gusts and strong tornadoes that could move for long distances over the ground.
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