Deadly Sunday: At least 18 dead across Midwest after twisters hit five states

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Fox News: Tornadoes kill at least 18 as storms pummel Plains, Midwest, and Southhttp://www.foxnews.com/weather/2014/04/28/tornadoes-leave-at-least-5-dead-in-oklahoma-arkansas/http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2014/04/28/tornadoes-leave-at-least-5-dead-in-oklahoma-arkansas/

At least 18 people were killed Sunday by three separate tornadoes spawned by a powerful storm system that moved through the central and southern United States.

The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management confirmed early Monday that at least sixteen people died in Little Rock, Ark., when a twister carved an 80-mile path of destruction through suburbs north of the state capital.

An Oklahoma county sheriff's dispatcher reported that one person had died in the town of Quapaw, near the state's borders with Kansas and Missouri. Fox News has also confirmed that another person died when a tornado hit Keokuk County, Iowa.

Photos on the FoxNews.com website show wreckage in neighborhoods of Baxter Springs, Kansas, a suburb of Joplin, Missouri, the city that was hit by an EF-5 tornado that killed over 160 three years ago. People down there head for the storm shelters when it lightnings. That storm is probably the same one that hit Quapaw, Oklahoma and killed two.

The biggest storm was the one that hit a new subdivision in north Little Rock. It grew to a half mile wide at one point. Witnesses said there was literally nothing left of the subdivision.

The storm that hit Little Rock, before it grew to maximum size:

 

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Three of the dead are a father and two of his children who were believers and friends of friends of mine (they attend the same church). They lost their home and mom and the other kids (I believe there are 9 in all) are in the hospital. The family had a company called Reformation Kidz - https://www.facebook.com/ReformationKidz