Some 16 million people remain on alert this Sunday in the northeast of the United States for tornadoes and a total of 110 million are at risk in the country due to severe weather conditions, which in the last few hours have killed at least 23 people.
This Sunday saw the "most active severe storms of the year," with more than 600 reports of storm damage in at least 20 states, according to the Storm Prediction Center, from Wyoming to New Hampshire. There were 14 tornadoes, most in the state of Kentucky.
And this Monday, 16 million people in Washington DC, parts of North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland remain on alert for tornadoes until tonight, according to the Storm Prediction Center.
Additionally, a severe storm warning is in effect through tonight for New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, affecting 30 million people.
Storms and tornadoes caused at least 23 deaths over the weekend in the United States, including four children. The deaths occurred in Kentucky, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma and Alabama.
According to the White House, President Joe Biden spoke this Monday with some of the governors of the affected states.
"He expressed his condolences for the lives lost in each state" and ordered that "federal support be provided as necessary," he noted in a brief statement.
According to PowerOutage.us, more than 450,000 homes and businesses in the central, southern and eastern United States were still without power following the weekend storms on Monday afternoon.
Meanwhile, more than 25 million people are under heat alerts, primarily in eastern and southern Texas and central and southern Louisiana and Mississippi.
Over the next two days, temperatures could exceed 48.3 degrees Celsius in Laredo, Texas, and 45 degrees in Austin and Houston.
At least 14 people died in the southern United States after tornadoes and extreme storms hit the states of Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma on Saturday night and early Sunday, causing destruction in their wake, authorities detailed.
Rescue efforts continued and hundreds of thousands of people were left without power after the storms hit part of the region known as the Great Plains. The United States National Weather Service (NWS) counted 25 tornadoes on Saturday.
In Texas, Cooke County Sheriff Ray Sappington said at a news conference Sunday that seven people died in an area north of Dallas that was devastated by a tornado.
"Unfortunately, I think that number is going to increase," Sappington had told reporters earlier, adding that search operations were continuing. The tornado destroyed homes and a gas station where several drivers had sought shelter, leaving injuries but no fatalities.
Several vehicles were overturned on an interstate highway, while television images showed destroyed properties. Sappington called the damage "quite extensive."
In Arkansas, five people died as a result of the storms, according to local authorities in Benton, Baxter, Boone and Marion counties.
In Oklahoma, at least two people died after a tornado hit Mayes County on Saturday night, local emergency management chief Johnny Janzen told the Fox News affiliate in Tulsa.
Due to storms in the area, In Indiana, the start of the Indianapolis 500 was delayed on Sunday, and the public was urged to leave the stands and seek shelter. An attendance of 125,000 people was expected for the automobile race, one of the most emblematic in the United States.
As the storm system moved across the country, about 450,000 customers were left without power in Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky, according to the latest report from the Poweroutage.us website.















