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Stunned locals survey the damage after a deadly tornado ripped through the town of Mayflower, Arkansas.
Residents of the Little Rock suburb of Mayflower were trying to stay upbeat early Monday after a deadly tornado touched down reducing homes and businesses to matchsticks.“We’re hanging in there,” one official who was not authorized to speak to the media told NBC News.
A survivor of Sunday's deadly tornado outbreak in the Plains and South told of the struggle to hold a cellar door shut as the storm roared overhead.
At least 31 tornadoes ripped through the Plains and South on Sunday, leaving at least 18 people dead and forecasters warning that the worst may be yet to come.
See the devastation left behind after a powerful tornado swept through Mayflower, Arkansas.
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At least 13 people were killed as a tornado left behind a miles-long path of destruction in Arkansas on Sunday. Another person was killed in Oklahoma.Major damage was reported in the Little Rock suburb of Mayflower where roofs were ripped off homes.
The search is over for a prison escapee with ties to North Texas.Kendrick Rishard Davis, 34, escaped from the Kyle Correctional Center just after 2 p.m. Saturday. He was captured sometime around 8 p.m.
A tornado killed two people in the small northeastern Oklahoma town of Quapaw on Sunday, officials said.The tornado was one of several spawned by a large storm front moving through the Midwest and South. There have been no other reported deaths due to the storms.
Severe storms — with violent hail and deadly tornadoes — lashed parts of central and southern America on Sunday evening.Major damage was reported throughout Oklahoma, Arkansas, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri.
