A wall cloud forms near Interstate 35 and Purcell, Okla. on Thursday, May 30, 2013.<\/p>\n
A series of devastating tornadoes are sweeping through several states in central US, days after dozens of people were killed in a massive twister in the state of Oklahoma.\n<\/p>\n
Multiple tornadoes battered the Oklahoma City metropolitan area and killed a mother and a child there before moving over Missouri late Friday.\n<\/p>\n
The National Weather Service warned that a \u00c5\u201cconfirmed and extremely dangerous tornado\u201d was near the city of Harvester, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) northwest of St. Louis.\n<\/p>\n
The weather service also issued a tornado emergency for Oklahoma City and its suburbs of Moore, Yukon and Bethany.\n<\/p>\n
The Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. said over 50,000 people were without power by early Friday evening in the Oklahoma City area because of bad weather.\n<\/p>\n
Tornado warnings were posted for remote areas of far southeastern Kansas and in Missouri people were urged to take shelters.\n<\/p>\n
Flash flooding and twisters left three people dead in the state of Arkansas late Thursday and Friday while three others were reported missing in the floods that came after 6 inches of rain.\n<\/p>\n
\u00c5\u201cThe water just comes off that hill like someone is pouring a bucket in there,\u201d said Danny Straessle, a spokesman for the Arkansas Department of Highway and Transportation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
On May 20, a killer tornado struck the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, flattening homes, two schools and a hospital.<\/p>\n
The storm has been described by the National Weather Service as the deadliest US tornado since the one that killed 161 people in Joplin, Missouri, just two years ago.\n<\/p>\n
Also on May 15, an EF-4 tornado struck the US state of Texas, killing several people and injuring more than 100 residents.\n<\/p>\n
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