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At least six people died in Illinois, where a distribution center owned by e-commerce giant Amazon in Edwardsville was struck and collapsed.
"The news from Edwardsville is tragic," Amazon founder Jeff Bezos tweeted on Saturday. "We're heartbroken over the loss of our teammates there, and our thoughts and prayers are with their families and loved ones."
Besides, four deaths were confirmed in Tennessee; two people were killed in Arkansas; and one death was reported in Missouri.
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee on Saturday surveyed storm damage in the western part of the state, including Dresden, where multiple downtown buildings were torn apart. "This is about the saddest thing I've ever seen," Lee told reporters. "The whole town, the whole town."
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Saturday that he's "monitoring the situation very closely since early this morning" and called the disaster likely "one of the largest tornado outbreaks in our history."
The White House said on Sunday that Biden had declared that a major disaster exists in Kentucky and ordered federal aid to supplement the state and local recovery efforts "in the areas affected by severe storms, straight-line winds, flooding, and tornadoes."
"It's going to be a long recovery," said Criswell, adding that the FEMA is working with communities in making efforts to "help reduce the impacts that we're seeing from these severe weather events."

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Photo taken on Dec. 11, 2021 shows a vehicle damaged in tornadoes in Mayfield, Kentucky, the United States. (Photo by Caromirna Sanchez/Xinhua)
UNUSUAL MAGNITUDE
Tornadoes can form at any time of year, but most occur in the spring and summer months, according to meteorologists.
Defined as vertical funnels of rapidly spinning air, these violent twisters are born in thunderstorms and are often accompanied by hail. Their winds may top 250 miles (roughly 402 km) an hour and can clear a pathway a mile wide and 50 miles (roughly 80 km) long.
Tornadoes occur around the world, but the United States is a major hotspot with about a thousand tornadoes every year.
Victor Gensini, an extreme weather researcher at Northern Illinois University, pointed out, however, that the powerful tornadoes churning through the U.S. states were unusual coming in December, when colder weather normally limits the storms.
Criswell said something similar on Sunday.
"We do see tornadoes in December, that part is not unusual, but at this magnitude I don't think we've ever seen one this late in the year," the FEMA chief said. "But it's also historic. Even this, the severity and the amount of time this tornado, or these tornadoes, spent on the ground is unprecedented."
She also warned such extreme weather events could be a "new normal," pointing to the effects of climate change.
Biden said "the intensity of the weather across the board has some impact as a consequence of the warming of the planet and the climate change."
"The specific impact on these specific storms, I can't say at this point," the president added. "But the fact is that we all know everything is more intense when the climate is warming -- everything. And, obviously, it has some impact here, but I can't give you a quantitative read on that." (Video reporters: Hu Songyou, Tan Yixiao, Xu Jing, Zhang Mocheng; video editors: Jia Xiaotong, Mu Xuyao)■

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