US tornadoes: ‘The town is completely gone’ says sheriff as 24 killed in storms

In the birthplace of Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Col Harland Sanders the
high school was destroyed and the second floor had been ripped off the
middle school next door.

The outbreak comes two days after an earlier round of storms killed 13 people
in the Midwest and South.

“It just hit all at once,” said Blaine Lawson, 76, in Cleveland,
Tennessee. “Didn’t have no warning really. The roof, insulation and
everything started coming down on us. It just happened so fast that I didn’t
know what to do. I was going to head to the closet but there was just no
way. It just got us.”

The storm system was so wide that an estimated 34 million people were at risk
of severe weather, according to the National Weather Service regional
office.

“Then the gates of hell opened up,” an emergency services call
dispatcher told The New York Times.

In Indiana, Gov Daniels said that workers were desperately searching through
rubble in search of anyone trapped, adding, “our people are racing the
nightfall”.

The town of Marysville, home to 2,000 people, was reported to be nearly
flattened.

“We’ve had a few tornadoes come through the area, but this is the worst
one we’ve seen,” said Maj Adams, who has lived in the area for 30
years.

Harold Brooks, a research meteorologist at the National Severe Storms
Laboratory, said that the tornado storm was caused by a warm, moist and
unseasonable air mass that was mixed with colder air far to the north.

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