AP: Kansas City, MO - A violent storm system rumbled through the central US on Wednesday, spawning tornadoes that turned homes into splintered wreckage, killing at least 14 people over two days and hampering rescue efforts in a city slammed by a massive twister days earlier. The new system, which followed closely behind the one that spawned the massive twister that struck Joplin, MO, and killed more than 120 people, moved into the Oklahoma City area Tuesday evening as worried commuters rushed home from work. Several tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma City and its suburbs, killing at least eight people and injuring at least 70 others, authorities said. Among those killed was a 15-month-old boy and searchers were looking for his missing three-year-old brother. The storms killed two people in Kansas, four in Arkansas and possibly one in Texas. The weather service warned that a wave of more powerful storms could hit the state later Wednesday. The larger storm system was centered over Missouri, Arkansas and Illinois early Wednesday and moving into western Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi. The weather service placed much of Illinois and Indiana under a tornado watch and said isolated tornadoes were possible throughout Ohio when the storms moved into the state Wednesday night. Sunday's storm was the nation's eighth deadliest twister among records dating back to 1840.
We need to continue to pray for these central US residents, for their safety and salvation for the unsaved.
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