The extreme weather conditions will affect the area where more than 100 million people live. Wind gusts of up to 130 kilometers per hour are predicted from the Canadian border to Texas
At least 34 people have died after tornadoes and severe storms hit the central and southern parts United States of America (USA).
New warnings have been issued in Missouri and Tennessee tornado, with a forecast of lightning and strong winds.
The death toll rose after the Kansas Highway Patrol reported eight people were killed in a dust storm chain reaction involving at least 50 vehicles, the AP reports.
Missouri had more deaths than any other state as at least 12 people died in the state, authorities said.
Officials in Arkansas said three people died in Independence County and 29 were injured in eight counties in the storms that swept through the state.
“Teams are assessing the damage from the tornado. We have first responders on the ground with rescue teams," said Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who along with Georgia Governor Brian Kemp declared a state of emergency.
Huge storm system
The deaths came as a massive storm system that moved across the country sparked deadly dust storms and more than 100 fires.
The extreme weather conditions will affect the area where more than 100 million people live.
Tylertown, Mississippi was devastated after a tornado hit the town on Saturday afternoon.
Please keep your weather notifications on tonight, the system continues to move east. #mississippi #tornado pic.twitter.com/Ju4QKjOEXV— Weather & Radar USA (@WeatherRadar_US) March 16, 2025
Wind gusts of up to 130 kilometers per hour are predicted from the Canadian border to Texas.
The National Weather Service has issued blizzard warnings for parts of far western Minnesota and far eastern South Dakota.
An evacuation was ordered in some communities in Oklahoma as more than 130 fires were reported across the state.
State officials said the wind was so strong it overturned several tractor-trailers.
The Storm Prediction Center said the fast-moving storms could spawn tornadoes and baseball-sized hail, but that the biggest threat was hurricane-force winds, with gusts of 160 miles per hour possible.
The regions at greatest risk stretch from eastern Louisiana and Mississippi through Alabama, western Georgia and Florida, it said.
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