A deadly storm system swept across Missouri on Wednesday, killing at least three people in the southwestern part of the state.
A deadly storm system swept across Missouri on Wednesday, killing at least three people in the southwestern part of the state and causing extensive damage and injuring multiple people in the capital city.At least 20 people were injured in Cole County, where the city of 43,000 lies, and there are also reports of people trapped after the twister hit, authorities said at a news conference early Thursday.
Gov. Mike Parson said of the deaths in the southwest part of the state near Joplin,"We are very thankful we didn't have any more fatalities than we did, but three is too many."The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for the Jefferson City area shortly after 11 p.m. and upgraded that to an emergency at 11:43 p.m. The tornado hit shortly after that, said Jim Sieveking, science and operations officer for the weather service’s St. Louis office.
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