Confirmed or suspected tornadoes across 11 states destroyed homes and businesses, splintered trees and laid waste to neighborhoods over a broad swath of the country.
The National Weather Service confirmed Sunday that a tornado was responsible for damage to several homes near Bridgeville, Delaware. One person was found dead inside a house heavily damaged by the storm Saturday night, Delaware State Police reported.
Residents of Wynne, Arkansas, a community of about 8,000 people 50 miles west of Memphis, Tennessee, woke Saturday to find the high school's roof shredded and its windows blown out. At least four people died. Tennessee recorded at least 15 deaths, including nine fatalities in McNairy County, east of Memphis, according to Patrick Sheehan, director the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency.Jaycee Ahlefeld surveys the damage left after a late-night tornado devastated the area in Sullivan, Ind. on Saturday. Ahlefeld's son attended a day care that had been on what is now an empty lot. Multiple deaths were reported in the area following the storm.
Rachel Milam lived in the basement with her 6-year-old daughter, while her mother and her mother's boyfriend lived upstairs in their home on the outskirts of Waynesboro, Tennessee. A piece of wood fell over them. So did a mirror."We were fine and just thankful that we made it out alive," Milam said. Elsewhere, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker traveled Sunday to Belvidere to visit the Apollo Theatre, which partially collapsed as about 260 people were attending a heavy metal concert.
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