At least 27 people have died in the United States as a result of hurricanes and tornadoes.

At least 27 people died as a result of hurricanes and tornadoes in the central United States. This was reported by The New York Times on Saturday, May 17.

"At least 27 people have died as a result of tornadoes and storms in the central United States. Tornadoes killed at least 25 people in Missouri and Kentucky alone, officials said. The spring storm season turned out to be brutal for the region," the article says.

The victims of the tornado, as reported in the article, were at least seven people in Missouri, of whom five died in St. Louis, and two more people in Scott County in the southeast of the state, according to the county sheriff's office. At least 18 people were killed in Kentucky, 17 of them in Laurel County and one in Pulaski County.

As local authorities told the newspaper, two more people died during the storm in Virginia when trees broken by the wind fell on their cars.

According to the publication, there is also destruction of buildings in a number of states. At London-Corbin Airport in Laurel County, hangars were twisted and flattened, a plane overturned, and a medical helicopter was damaged. However, no people were injured in this incident.

By Saturday morning, American weather forecasters said that at least 26 tornadoes had been confirmed, according to preliminary estimates, most of which struck the states of Indiana and Kentucky.

Earlier in the day, 16 victims of hurricanes and storms were reported in the central United States. It was also said that power outages due to the storms affected hundreds of thousands of people in the Midwest and the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States. More than 500,000 Americans from Michigan to Tennessee were left without electricity.