A violent storm system that blasted tornadoes and flooding across Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas over the weekend has claimed at least 13 lives, including three storm chasers. The system was moving toward the east coast, pouring rain and flashing thunderstorms from Quebec City in Canada to Philadelphia, according to AccuWeather meteorologists. Some severe thunderstorms carrying hail and heavy rain were also moving southward to South Carolina.
Officials raised the death toll to at least 13 in Oklahoma on Sunday, and said at least six more people are missing. The same storm system on Sunday brought flooding to Van Buren, Maine; a tornado to Anderson, South Carolina; and hail to Falls Village, Connecticut, AccuWeather reported. The town of Bennington, Vermont, was covered with 63.5cm of water.
St Louis, Missouri, could be threatened by flooding in coming days as the Mississippi River reached 11.6 metres, well above the flood stage of 9.1 metres, the National Weather Service said.
The weekend system of multiple tornadoes brushed through the town of Moore, Oklahoma, where at least 24 people were killed by a monster EF5 tornado on May 20.
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