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TORONTO – Though the most severe tornado threats have been reduced for Tuesday, the U.S. south isn’t out of the woods yet.
Tornadoes have plagued central and southern U.S. states since Sunday night, killing at least 28 people.
And as the storms moved across several states, plenty of storm chasers took to the roads, braving the danger and capturing wild video of the twisters.
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A YouTube video by Pecos Hank shows just how large one tornado was.
“That is just a huge tornado,” he can be heard saying on the video. “That’s just massive.”
At one point, he drives through falling debris.
“There’s all sorts of stuff falling out of the sky…This is houses all over the road.”
Greg Carbin, a meteorologist with the U.S. Storm Prediction Center told Global News, “It looks like there was a corridor of very strong thunderstorms and several tornadoes perhaps several long-track tornadoes, going for 10 miles or more from southwest Mississippi…into northwest Alabama late yesterday afternoon and into last Monday evening.”
“Right now a number of those tornadoes produced significant damage and there have been fatalities in both Mississippi and Alabama.”
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Early Tuesday afternoon, the U.S. National Weather Service issued tornado watches across southern Alabama, parts of Louisiana, as well as Mississippi.
“It looks like the same basic corridor is at risk again today,” Carbin said.
A tornado watch for North Carolina was also issued by mid-afternoon Tuesday.
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