Extreme Weather: America Under Attack - Most Powerful Storm System Devastates Texas, Minnesota, Kansas, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska And Oklahoma; Up To 50 Tornadoes Ravages Plains States; National Weather Service Warns "You Could Be Killed If Not Underground Or In A Tornado Shelter"; At Least 2 Dead, Many Injured; Widespread Destruction; Severe Storm Outbreak Forecast To Continue!

“It’s pretty bad. It’s pretty much wiped out.” – Pottawatomie County Sheriff Mike Booth.

The Celestial Convergence

May 20, 2013 – UNITED STATES – At least two people were killed and 29 were injured in Oklahoma as a severe storm system generated several tornadoes Sunday in Kansas, Oklahoma and Iowa, leveling neighborhoods and sending frightened residents scurrying for shelter as extreme conditions are expected to linger across the Midwest. Another tornado touched down near Oklahoma City Monday afternoon. The tornadoes, high winds and hail have been part of a massive, northeastward-moving storm system that has stretched from Texas to Minnesota. Victims and emergency responders might not get much of a reprieve, as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Storm Prediction Center was forecasting similar weather for Monday over much of the same area. The National Weather Service was warning of the possibility of more tornadoes and baseball-sized hail Monday, while residents of Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri were also warned to watch for bad weather Monday.
 

At least four separate twisters touched down in central Oklahoma late Sunday afternoon, including one near the town of Shawnee, 35 miles southeast of Oklahoma City, that laid waste to much of a mobile home park. Oklahoma state medical examiner’s office spokeswoman Amy Elliott on Monday identified the two people who are confirmed to have been killed as 79-year-old Glen Irish and 76-year-old Billy Hutchinson. Both men were from Shawnee. Pottawatomie County Sheriff Mike Booth said Irish was found dead out in the open at Steelman Estates, but the sheriff didn’t have details on where he had lived. “You can see where there’s absolutely nothing, then there are places where you have mobile home frames on top of each other, debris piled up,” Booth said. “It looks like there’s been heavy equipment in there on a demolition tour … It’s pretty bad. It’s pretty much wiped out.” The Shawnee tornado was one of several that touched down in the nation’s midsection Sunday. Twisters, hail and high winds also struck Iowa and Kansas as part of a devastating, northeastward-moving storm system that stretched from Texas to Minnesota. Kansas, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma were ravaged by 50 tornadoes this weekend.

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