44 Dead after Killer Twisters Pound South (original) (raw)

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09:19 pm - 44 Dead after Killer Twisters Pound South
SANFORD, N.C. – Lowe's store manager Michael Hollowell had heard the tornado warnings, but his first clue that the danger was outside his front door came when he saw his staff running toward the back of the home improvement store.More than 100 employees and customers screamed in near unison when the steel roof curled off overhead Saturday. The store was becoming part of the wreckage left by a ferocious storm system bristling with killer twisters that ripped through the South."You could hear all the steel ripping. People screaming in fear for their lives," Hollowell told The Associated Press on Sunday.Those in the store did not become part of the death toll that totaled at least 44 across six states, and officials said quick action by Hollowell and his employees helped them all make it out alive in Sanford, about 40 miles south of Raleigh.

More than 240 tornadoes were reported from the storm system, including 62 in North Carolina, but the National Weather Service's final numbers could be lower because some tornadoes may have been reported more than once.
Okay, the little tornado and natural disaster scientist in me is currently pumping with adrenaline right now. If the NWS analyzes this storm and the numbers are still high (although I'm sure it won't be 240 either), do you all know what this means? It means that this tornado outbreak would break the record of the one from 1974

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