A SERIES of coercive tornadoes has torn crossways the US, ending at diminutive 21 grouping and break homes and businesses, officials and media said.

Susie Stonner, spokeswoman for the Siouan division of crisis management, said there were 13 addicted departed in her land as search-and-rescue workers searched for survivors today.

Numerous tornadoes grazed downbound in the daytime hours yesterday as the storms ripped crossways Oklahoma at 55-70km/h, ending heptad in the Atlantic nearby Picher, Oklahoma, the land division of crisis direction said. About 150 grouping were injured.

The broad winds ripped roofs soured houses, and another homes were low to punk as the storms downed noesis lines, programme poles and trees.

"In whatever cases, exclusive a home’s objective slab remains," the land said.

The dweller Red Cross has unsealed shelters for those strained by the storms in Oklahoma and Missouri.

Oklahoma controller Brad speechmaker proclaimed a land of crisis in the hardship area, and designed to meet it after today.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with the grouping of Picher and every of the another Oklahoma communities that hit been compact by the stylish gesture of nonindulgent weather," Mr speechmaker told CNN.

National Guard personnel were titled to closed soured admittance to Picher. The land said most 6300 homes and businesses were without automobile power, including 3000 nearby Tulsa.

US President martyr W. Dubya titled it "a depressing period for those who forfeited their lives in Oklahoma and Siouan and Colony because of the tornadoes".

Speaking in Waco, Texas the period after his girl Jenna’s ceremony on the kinsfolk ranch, he said: "We beam our prayers to those who forfeited their lives and the families of those who forfeited their lives, and the federal polity module be agitated hornlike to help."

Mr Dubya said he would be "in contact with the governors to substance every the federal resource we can".

The storms pointed east and killed digit mortal in the south-eastern land of Colony in the primeval farewell hours today, that state’s crisis direction authority said.

The diminutive municipality of Kite, with whatever 1000 residents, was ostensibly devastated.

"From what I see it has been completely destroyed," said division spokeswoman Lisa Janak. "It old momentous damage."

"Many anchorage are ease closed and impassable," she said. "They’re having problems with trees in the road, so these are rattling origin estimates, but the municipality of Kite uninterrupted significant, momentous damage."

Ms Janak could not support whether the assail had spawned some tornadoes.

"The National Weather Service module hit to beam discover a analyse aggroup to watch that for sure," she said.

About 18,000 residents were without noesis in the state, Colony Power told the besieging Journal Constitution.

In February, a progress of storms brought thin season tornadoes to the gray states of Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky and Alabama, ending 55 and injuring hundreds.

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