Astonishing footage has emerged from inside one of the terrifying tornadoes that have battered parts of the US.
At least 34 people have been killed by tornadoes and storms, with parts of West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania put under a new tornado watch early on Monday (local time).
The storms that hit the south and the midwest headed east on Sunday.
Almost 300,000 consumers had no power in the affected areas on Sunday mid-afternoon, according to the website PowerOutage.
Missouri reported the largest number of deaths, 12 fatalities spanning five counties, the state’s highway patrol posted on X.
Robbie Myers, the director of emergency management in Missouri’s Butler County, said more than 500 homes, a church and a grocery store had been destroyed.
A mobile home park was “totally destroyed”, he said.
“Everything around it here is really bad. The trailer park up the street had fatalities. So, I mean, we don’t have nothing compared to anything like that.
“I still have a home. They don’t,” Rick Brittingham, a Missouri resident, told Reuters from Butler County.
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves posted on X that there had been six deaths in the state – one in Covington County, two in Jefferson Davis County and three in Walthall County.
According to preliminary assessments, 29 people were injured statewide and 21 counties sustained storm damage, Reeves said.
Also in Walthall County, Montanaa Lane captured the moment a tornado – packing winds of at least 220-265/km/h – crossed over their home in Tylertown on Saturday (local time).
Her footage shows people people standing near a window as winds whip through blinding rain outside. Trees can be seen bending in the wind.
“That’s it. That’s it,” someone says. “That’s the tornado.”
Seconds later, as the tornado crosses over the house, debris can be heard hitting the building.
“My car,” one person says. “Oh, man.”
“The camper’s gone baby,” someone else says.
Afterwards, significant damage can be seen to buildings and trees around the house.
Damian Lane told CNN his house suffered only a few broken windows and other minor damage. No one was injured.
There have also been three deaths in Arkansas, the state’s Department of Emergency Management said, as well as 32 injuries.
Eight deaths were confirmed in a crash involving more than 50 cars in Sherman County in Kansas, caused by a severe dust storm, the Kansas Highway Patrol said. Many injured travellers were taken to local hospitals.
At least two people died in Alabama due to the severe weather, Governor Kay Ivey said in a post on X.
“We have reports of damage in 52 of our 67 counties,” the governor said.
Crashes caused by dust storms near Amarillo, Texas, caused three deaths, according to the state’s Department of Public Safety.
Thirty-nine tornadoes were reported, but not yet confirmed, from Friday to midday on Sunday, according to the US National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Centre.
-with AAP