(WJW / AP) – Facts National Weather Service in Little Rock, Arkansas says Friday tornado tracked at least 250 miles across four states.
In a tweet, the NWS said the tornado passed through Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee and Kentucky.
Governor Andy Beshear said at a news conference Saturday that at least 70 people have died across 10 counties in Kentucky, and that the death toll could exceed 100.
“I believe this will be the deadliest tornado system ever to run through Kentucky,” Beshear said.
There is no word yet on what level the tornado is classified into, but the images show a very destructive tornado.
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A large semi-trailer overturned and pushed into a building in Bowling Green, Ky., on Saturday, December 11, 2021. Tornadoes and severe weather caused catastrophic damage across many states. late Friday, killing at least six people overnight as a systemic storm tore through a candle factory in Kentucky, an Amazon facility in Illinois and a nursing home in Arkansas. (AP Photo / Dylan T. Lovan) -
Tornado damage at a feed store in Mayfield, Ky., on Saturday, December 11, 2021. Tornadoes and severe weather caused catastrophic damage across many states late in the day. Friday, killing several people overnight. (AP Photo / Timothy D. Easley) -
Martin Bolton (L) and store owner Danny Wagner try to turn off a leaking gas meter after his auto repair shop was destroyed by a tornado in Mayfield, Kentucky on December 11, 2021. Tornadoes ripped through half a dozen states Friday night through Saturday, scaring at least 50 people dead in a devastated Kentucky city and about 100 trapped in a partially collapsed Amazon warehouse. in Illinois. (Photo by John Amis / Agence France Presse / AFP via Getty Images)
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