One death is blamed on severe weather, high winds that ripped roofs off buildings, knocked out power and fanned wildfires. Latest impacts:
One person was killed by a falling tree.Five deaths are being blamed on high winds from a storm system that rolled across the Plains and Midwest Wednesday night, with gusts over 90 mph and damaging tornadoes that ripped roofs off homes, fueled wildfires, left hundreds of thousands without power and created treacherous driving conditions.Here's the latest:Four additional deaths are being connected to Wednesday's storms, according to the Associated Press, adding to one reported earlier.
The driver died when high winds rolled the vehicle onto its side on southbound U.S. Highway 151 in eastern Iowa on Wednesday evening, the AP reported, citing the Iowa State Patrol.More than half a million homes and businesses were without power in eight states as of about 11:30 a.m. EST Wednesday. The bulk of those were due to high winds in Michigan and Wisconsin .Each power outage represents a single customer account, meaning millions are impacted by the widespread outages.
A single severe thunderstorm may produce an area of damaging winds only a mile or two wide and a few miles long, but derechos can produce damage tens of miles wide and hundreds of miles long. They should cover a distance of at least 250 miles, according to a 2005 study by Walker Ashley and Thomas Mote.And here's a look at the highlights from Wednesday afternoon into the late night:The air traffic control tower at Kansas City International Airport was evacuated at about 5:50 p.m. CST.
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