At least 19 dead as tornadoes tear through southern US
At least 19 people have died in the US - including 11 in Missouri alone - after deadly tornadoes tore through several south-eastern states, flipping cars and flattening homes.
Three people were killed in a car crash during a fierce dust storm in Texas, while deaths have also occurred in Oklahoma and Arkansas.
More than 200,000 people are without power across five states - Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Texas and Arkansas - according to tracker PowerOutage.
Further severe weather is on the horizon for the region on Saturday, with tornado watches issued in central Mississippi, eastern Louisiana and western Tennessee.
Flash flooding and flood warnings have also been issued in the same three states, as well as parts of Alabama and Arkansas, as severe weather continues to track across the south-east.
A tornado warning - the highest level threat - was also issued in central Mississippi on Saturday morning.
The National Weather Service (NWS) warned of "multiple intense to violent long-track tornadoes" in those areas, describing the situation as "particularly dangerous".
The meteorological agency said: "If you live in these areas, get to the sturdiest structure you have access to and remain in place until the storms pass."
Missouri State TrooperMike Kehoe, governor of Missouri - where the 11 deaths were reported across four south-easterly counties - said the state had been "devastated by severe storms and tornadoes, leaving homes destroyed and lives lost".
Missouri's emergency management agency said initial reports indicated 19 tornadoes had struck 25 counties so far.
One person died on the road in Oklahoma, the BBC's US partner CBS News reported, citing officials, while three deaths were reported in Arkansas.
The same dust storm that caused three deaths in Texas on Friday night caused a pile-up of an estimated 38 cars.
"It's the worst I've ever seen," Sgt Cindy Barkley, of the state's department of public safety, told reporters.
"We couldn't tell that they were all together until the dust kind of settled."
A further death has since been reported in Texas.
In Texas and Oklahoma, the destructive storms fuelled more than 100 wildfires and overturned several semi-trailer trucks, CBS reports.
One of those fires, known as the 840 Road Fire, has already burned 27,500 acres and remains 0% contained, according to the Oklahoma Forestry Service. The agency has issued a "red flag" warning for the state's panhandle area, signaling extreme fire danger.
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