Gov. Mike Parson toured storm damage in Pemiscot County, Mo. on Sunday (Source: KFVS)
DEFIANCE, Mo. (AP) — Missouri officials are continuing to assess the damage caused by tornadoes that killed at least two people in the state this weekend.
Gov. Mike Parsons visited St. Charles and Pemiscot counties Sunday to see the aftermath of the storms that moved through Friday night. The same storm system also generated tornadoes that killed dozens of people in four other states with the worst damage in Kentucky.
“This morning, we witnessed neighbors helping neighbors and consider this the spirit of true Missourians,” Parsons said in a Facebook post Sunday.
State officials are working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to get aid out to affected communities.
The National Weather Service said the tornado that swept across St. Charles County and killed an 84-year-old woman in Defiance was rated an EF3 tornado with winds between 136 miles per hour and 165 miles per hour. Mark Borgmann told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that his mother, Ollie Borgmann, died after the tornado damaged his childhood home, and his father was injured.
In the Bootheel region of the state, a young child was killed at home but officials have released few details about that. At least nine other people were treated in hospitals in Pemiscot County.
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