Residents dig out from tornado damage after storms kill 28 in Kentucky, Missouri, and Virginia

Kentucky was hardest hit as a devastating tornado damaged hundreds of homes, tossed vehicles and left many homeless. At least 19 people were killed, most of them in southeastern Laurel County. The National Weather Service predicted a fresh “multi-day’ mix of dangerous weather across the nation’s midsection starting Sunday with heavy rains, thunderstorms and possibly more tornadoes. Severe storms were possible for Kentucky on Monday and even more so on Tuesday, the weather service said. The storms were part of a weather system Friday that killed seven in Missouri and two in northern Virginia. The system spawned tornadoes in Wisconsin, brought punishing heat to Texas and temporarily enveloped parts of Illinois — including Chicago — in a pall of dust. Researchers found in 2018 that deadly tornadoes were happening less frequently in traditional “Tornado Alley’ states of Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas than in parts of the more densely populated mid-South. The latest storms hit at a time when the Trump administration cut staffing at weather service offices.

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