High powered storms hit Tuesday evening and early Wednesday, killing at least eight people in Oklahoma and two in Kansas and three in Arkansas. The storms with winds of more than 150 mph hit the central US, killing at least 13 people in three states, flattening homes, crushing cars and ripping apart a rural Arkansas fire station. The new storms came after a massive tornado tore up the southwest Missouri city of Joplin and killed 122 people. Department of Emergency Management spokesman Tommy Jackson said one person died in that tornado early Wednesday in Arkansas. Arkansas' Franklin County's chief deputy sheriff, Deputy Devin Bramlett, said early Wednesday that a third person died in Etna. Hours earlier, several tornadoes struck Oklahoma City and its suburbs during the Tuesday night rush hour, killing at least eight people and injuring at least 60 others, including three children who were in critical condition, authorities said. The path of the storms included Joplin, Missouri, which is cleaning up from a Sunday storm that was the nation's eighth-deadliest twister among records dating to 1840. The storms also blew through North Texas, but the damage seemed to be confined to roofs and trees and lawn furniture and play equipment.
