Storm warnings were issued throughout Friday, and schools and businesses were
closed ahead of the storms after a series of tornadoes earlier in the week
killed 13 people in Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Tennessee.
“We may not be done yet,” said John Hart, a meteorologist at the
Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma.
As night fell on Friday and temperatures cooled, the line of storms appeared
to weaken somewhat as they travelled eastward, but the National Weather
Service warned of another possible outbreak of tornadic weather in
Saturday’s early hours.
Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes were likely over an area stretching from
Indiana and Ohio into Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama.
This week’s violent storms raised fears that 2012 will be another bad year for
tornadoes after 550 deaths in the United States were blamed on twisters last
year, the deadliest year in nearly a century, according to the Weather
Service.
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