Volunteers and impacted residents must check in and get an armband. A volunteer center will be set up beginning at 8 a.m., Sunday at New Hope Church of Christ, 4296 Murfreesboro Road near Readyville. Volunteers are being coordinated to help clean up debris Sunday. State of emergency requested for Readyville community Survey teams will be in Marshall, Rutherford, Cannon and Macon counties later Sunday and Monday to look for evidence of a second tornado there. One person was injured by this tornado, NWS said. The tornado traveled about 38 miles in just as many minutes at 130 mph wind speeds. Friday and ended in McNairy and Hardin counties about 40 minutes later. "The final path length/width/rating will be determined in the next few days," the NWS said in a tweet.īy preliminary reports, the tornado began in the Wayne and Lewis counties about 11:56 p.m. The National Weather Service announced Sunday morning that the long-track tornado that swept through Wayne, Lewis, McNairy and Hardin counties was likely an EF-2. National Weather Service: Suspected EF-2 tornado swept through several counties In total, 72 homes were destroyed by the storms and about 35-40% of the county had damage, Smith said. The death toll in McNairy County increased from seven to nine people Saturday night after storms and a suspected EF-2 tornado swept through the area Friday, Emergency Management Agency Director Allen Strickland said.įour of the nine people killed were in a one building in Rose Creek, McNairy County Mayor Larry Smith told the Commercial Appeal. Nine people dead in McNairy County after storms Meanwhile, the National Weather Service in Memphis determined three EF-3 tornadoes touched down on Friday in Covington and Adamsville, Tennessee, and in Wynne, Arkansas, according to the Memphis Commercial Appeal. The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency also confirmed 259 homes damaged by the weather. Nine were in McNairy, three in Shelby, one in Roane, one in Tipton and one in Henry counties, according to a news release Sunday afternoon. The Tennessee Department of Health has confirmed 15 total deaths related to severe weather in five different counties. Additional deaths, EF-3 tornadoes confirmed They were part of a large swath of storms scattered across the Mississippi Valley. The same system resulted in the storms and tornadoes that swept through West Tennessee earlier Friday. Severe storms marched through Middle Tennessee overnight Friday into Saturday morning, triggering thunderstorm and tornado warnings. Please consider becoming a subscriber to help power our ongoing local coverage.
This front that has been affecting the southern half of the Japanese archipelago has also caused particularly significant damage in Shimane prefecture, where 20 river overflows and 15 landslides were recorded.Watch Video: Readyville man talks about the Saturday morning, Apstorm. The alerts were announced hours after a woman in her 70s died after a landslide hit the home she shared with her husband, according to the public broadcaster NHK.Īt the weekend, authorities recommended the evacuation of 370,000 people and the suspension of regional and high-speed train services after rainfall of more than 100 millimeters was recorded over six hours. It asked citizens to be extremely vigilant regarding landslides and possible flooding and move to evacuation sites, or to higher ground away from cliffs and rivers. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued heavy rain emergency warnings for the southwestern prefectures of Fukuoka and Oita at level five, the highest on the warning system.
Tokyo, Jul 10 (EFE).- Downpours lashing southwestern Japan since the weekend have prompted the country’s meteorological authorities on Monday to issue special weather alerts due to the risk of landslides and floods.
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