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The
National Weather Service said multiple tornadoes were reported
on Sunday afternoon in central Indiana.
Emergency officials from Martin County, Indiana confirmed the
victim's death. Emergency Management Director Cameron Wolf said
the victim's injured partner was airlifted to hospital.
They lived in a two-storey log cabin, which was destroyed by the
storms. Further details were not immediately available.
"Damage is random, its kind of widespread," Wolf said in an
interview to PBS. The damage mostly happened out in the country
he said, adding that towns were not hit that hard by the storms.
Images and footage from local media showed fallen trees had
blocked roads and homes were damaged. A large hail storm was
also reported in Indiana and adjacent states, officials said.
Fire Chief Eric Funkhouser from the town of Bargersville, south
of Indianapolis, said that while no casualties were reported,
about 75 homes sustained moderate to severe damage after the
weather, according an NBC News affiliate.
Emergency shelters were set up in central Indiana for those
whose homes were damaged and destroyed.
As of Monday morning, about half a million utility customers
faced power outages due to the weather in the U.S. Midwest and
South, according to outage tracking website PowerOutage.us.
At least one person died and about two dozen people were injured
after a tornado hit central Mississippi a few days ago.
A dangerous heat wave had also recently helped spawn deadly
tornadoes in Texas and Florida, where at least four people were
killed this month in twisters that touched down in the
panhandles of the states. Flooding forced almost 150 people out
of their homes.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington, editing by Ed
Osmond)
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