The US meteorological service NWS warned of an “extremely violent” storm system Wednesday evening, which could “break records”.
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The United States does not see the end of it. Severe storms hit the Midwestern region on the evening of Wednesday, December 15, hours after President Joe Biden visited Kentucky, hit Friday by a deadly tornado, in which he pledged help from the federal government to disaster victims.
US weather service NWS warned of stormy system “extremely violent” Wednesday evening, likely to “beat Records” and to provoke “a plethora of dangerous weather phenomena” in several states in the center and north of the country, with particularly strong winds “dangerous”, snow, thunderstorms, tornadoes and fire hazards.
“These storms will have the potential to produce extreme wind gusts of up to 100 miles per hour. [160 km/h], as well as one or two powerful tornadoes “ in Iowa and Minnesota, has the National Weather Service, whose local agencies have urged people to take shelter. More than 400,000 people were without electricity in several states Wednesday evening, including Colorado, Kansas, Missouri and Iowa, according to the Poweroutage site.