Tornadoes slam Midwest, at least 27 dead
Source: Chicago Tribune
Powerful tornadoes ripped across the nation's midsection on Friday, killing at least 27 people in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio as they splintered homes, damaged a prison and tossed around vehicles across the region. At least 13 people were killed in southern Indiana, another 12 in neighboring Kentucky and two more in Ohio from storms that battered a band of states from Ohio to Alabama, officials said.
"We may not be done yet," said John Hart, a meteorologist at the Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma.
As night fell and temperatures cooled, the line of storms appeared to weaken somewhat as they traveled eastward, but the National Weather Service warned of another possible outbreak of tornadic weather later on Friday and in Saturday's early hours.
Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes were likely over an area stretching from Indiana and Ohio into Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama.
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