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17 Dead In Tornado Outbreak Through Several States From Massive System Moving East
A deadly tornado outbreak has left at least 17 people dead and numerous others injured as a powerful storm system carves a destructive path across multiple states, now heading toward the East Coast.
The National Weather Service (NWS) issued tornado watches early Saturday, March 15, for parts of Illinois, Indiana, Texas. Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
Entire neighborhoods have been torn apart, trees uprooted, and residents trapped under collapsed structures, according to emergency responders.
Some of the hardest-hit areas include Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, and Mississip…
Thousands Without Power In CT; Areas Hardest Hit Are Where Tornado Warning Was In Effect
A storm system that swept through the area overnight has knocked out power to thousands in Connecticut.
The hardest hit were the areas in which a Tornado Warning was issued at around 4 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 9: in Hartford, Tolland, and Windham counties. The warning has since been lifted.
Just before 7:30 a.m. Thursday, Eversource reported about 2,300 outages, with The Town of Putnam in Windham County having the most with 1,500, followed by Plainville (337), Glastonbury (134), and Coventry (122).
United Illuminating was reporting about 50 outages, with that number evenly split betw…
Thousands Without Power As Storm Slams Fairfield County
Thousands are without power in Fairfield County as a line of severe storms battered the area with heavy downpours, damaging winds and hail just as the evening commute began on Tuesday.
Among the areas hardest hit by outages as of 6 p.m., according to Eversource:
Brookfield, 5,656
Danbury, 6,623
Greenwich, 925
New Canaan, 392
New Fairfield, 3,944
Newtown, 5,931
Norwalk, 509
Ridgefield, 809
Shelton, 2,501
Stamford, 215
Westport, 468
A Severe Thunderstorm Warning in effect for the area expired at 5:45 p.m. Tuesday. A Flood Advisory was issued at 4 p.m. and expired at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Tornado w…
