The National Weather Service has issued a tornado emergency for Little Rock and surrounding areas, warning that 350,000 are in danger from a “confirmed large and destructive tornado,” Forecasters say the tornado was seen Friday afternoon in Little Rock and North Little Rock
A car is upturned in a Kroger parking lot after severe storm swept through Little Rock, Ark., Friday, March 31, 2023. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — — A tornado plowed through Little Rock and surrounding areas on Friday afternoon, reducing rooftops to splinters, toppling vehicles and tossing debris on roadways as people raced for shelter.
Passengers and airport employees at Clinton National Airport in Little Rock took shelter in bathrooms and were ordered to stay there until 3:45 p.m. Aerial footage showed several rooftops were torn from homes in Little Rock and nearby Benton.Nearly 70,000 customers in Arkansas were out of power on Friday afternoon, according to poweroutage.us, which tracks outages.
Forecasters issued tornado watches over both high-risk regions until Friday evening, with the weather service expecting numerous tornadoes and calling it a “particularly dangerous situation.” Apart from Little Rock, the major population centers at high risk for storms starting Friday afternoon include Chicago; St. Louis; Jonesboro, Arkansas; and Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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