By Mark Tarallo
04/28/2014 -
► A powerful tornado in Arkansas carved an 80-mile path of destruction through an area around the Little Rock suburb of Vilonia, killing at least 16 people, possibly more, the Associated Press reports. Emergency officials began to pick through the rubble to look for survivors as the sun rose Monday morning. The tornado that touched down around 7 p.m. Sunday about 10 miles west of Little Rock grew to be half a mile wide and remained on the ground for much of that route, authorities said. It was among a rash of tornadoes and heavy storms that rumbled across the center and south of the country overnight. Another twister killed a person in Quapaw, Oklahoma, before crossing into Kansas to the north and destroying 60 to 70 homes and injuring 25 people in the city of Baxter Springs, according to authorities in Kansas. A suspected tornado also struck near Plain Dealing in northwest Louisiana, the AP reports. The National Weather Service warned that the destructive storms were expected to continue Monday in the South and Mississippi Valley.
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