Arkansas
Tornado rips through Arkansas city, injuring 22 people
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A tornado ripped through Jonesboro, Arkansas, injuring 22 people and leaving a trail of flattened homes and buildings.
Mayor Harold Perrin and other local officials said there were no deaths after the tornado touched down on Saturday in the city, about 130 miles northeast of Little Rock.
Of the 22 injured people, two stayed in the hospital overnight but did not have life-threatening injuries, officials said.
Images posted on social media, including from the Jonesboro Police Department, showed broken walls, flattened commercial buildings and debris scattered across parking lots.
One picture showed a mangled vehicle in the mall parking lot. At the local airport, at least one airplane was overturned, and hangars were damaged.
The search and rescue efforts were completed by Sunday morning, and responders are moving into the cleanup and recovery phases, Craighead County Judge Marvin Day said.
The storm moved across Jonesboro around 5 p.m. local time, according to a video posted by the National Weather Service in Little Rock.
Day said there is a curfew from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., and Jonesboro Police Chief Rick Elliott urged residents to stay home while debris is cleared out of roadways and other common areas.
“We’ve already asked you to stay at home for this virus but we’re really stressing to stay at home,” Elliott said.
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