141 tornadoes kill at least 17 people

Tornadoes continue to head up the east coast

Posted: 7:15 PM
Last Updated: 42 minutes ago

The tornadoes are touching down, at least 141 now, and nearly two dozen in the last couple of hours.

At least seventeen people have been killed by the violent weather that sent dozens of tornadoes swirling through the south and Midwest.

Hundreds of homes and businesses have been damaged or destroyed, reduced to bricks, and the watches and warnings are continuing to spread across the country.

From Alabama all the way to Pennsylvania, tens of millions of Americans have been or are dealing with this tornado threat.

In Prattville, Alabama, mobile homes weren't just obliterated, they were launched in the air.

Three members of the same family died when the twister demolished a church.

A tornado wreaked havoc in Jackson, Mississippi, roaring across a busy highway, bashing a path through electrical lines and transformers, each burst of light plunging more people into darkness.

Ten miles away in Clinton, Mississippi, search and rescue efforts continue after a tornado tore the roofs off homes and making shambles of neighborhoods and lives.

The deadly storm system also sent twister rampaging across the southeast.

In Little Rock, a mother and son were killed in their own home when a tree fell on it.

Seven people were killed in Arkansas during the storms.

In tiny Tushka, Oklahoma, twisters churned a path a mile wide and nine miles long.

Two elderly sisters died.

The town's only two schools were also damaged in the storms.

Also in Oklahoma, a man emerged from his storm cellar to find what was left of his boat impaled on a tree.

In North Carolina, the storm has already left a lot of damage.

Several trees have been snapped and ripped out of the ground, and many homes and parking lots are littered with debris and structure damage.

Lee County officials say a funnel cloud has been spotted in the are, but so far there have not been any reported injuries.

The storms uprooted many trees, and the same storm is now barreling up the east coast.

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