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‘This Was a Monster’: Union City Tornado Leaves Path of Devastation
- The National Weather Service confirmed at least eight deaths after tornadoes struck Oklahoma and southern Michigan on March 5-6, and survey teams will assess damage on March 7.
- The Storm Prediction Center warned that a cold front moving through the eastern U.S. put at least 90 million people at severe-weather risk on March 7.
- Branch County officials said three deaths and a dozen injuries, with three hospitalized, from damage extending from Edwardsburg through Union City, Michigan.
- Oklahoma officials said tornadoes killed a mother and daughter near Fairview and two people north-northeast of Beggs, while Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer activated a state emergency operations center and videos showed a tornado ripping the roof off a Menard's store.
- Survey teams will determine if damage from at least six tornadoes was caused by a single tornado that lifted and cycled, which could take up to two days.
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Storms on Friday uprooted trees, downed power lines, and damaged buildings
Storms kill six in Michigan and Oklahoma
Authorities in southern Michigan searched through rubble and debris Saturday after suspected tornadoes tore through the region and killed four people, including a 12-year-old boy, during powerful storms also blamed for two deaths in eastern Oklahoma.
At least eight people died after a series of severe storms and storms reached the center of the United States between Friday and Saturday, resulting in destruction in cities of states such as Michigan and Oklahoma. Local authorities are still mobilized for rescue operations and warn that new dangerous climate conditions may occur in the next days.
By CNN meteorologist Derek Van Dam and Sydney Bishop. Severe storms brought damaging tornadoes to parts of the central United States on Thursday and Friday, reducing buildings to piles of rubble and killing at least eight people. The threat of severe weather that began Wednesday will largely subside after Saturday. A handful of severe storms threaten areas from central Texas to the lower Mississippi Valley, Memphis and other parts of western Ten…
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