By: Associated Press, 12/23/2013
Saturday's severe weather outbreak, which swept across the central and southern U.S., brought tornadoes and wind gusts that ripped roofs from barns and hurled trees into power lines, officials said. The storm system was blamed for the deaths of at least nine people. "There were clearly not as many tornadoes as feared Saturday; The final number will likely settle out between 5 and 10," said weather.com meteorologist Nick Wiltgen. "Yet two of them caused deaths. And wind damage was widespread; Preliminarily, it was the 11th-most active severe weather day of 2013. Considering it was the winter solstice – with the lowest amount of solar energy reaching the U.S. of any day on the calendar – that's just astounding." The storms lessened on Sunday, but the occasional severe thunderstorm popped up and parts of the Ohio Valley and Southeast received persistent, flooding rainfall.
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