Tornadoes ripped through the city of Claremore, in Northeast Oklahoma, late Sunday damaging buildings and bringing down power lines. As per local media reports, at least 18 including children were killed in the storm.
Towns in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas were hit by tornadoes on Saturday night, leaving trucks overturned, homes damaged and nearly 250,000 households without power.
The Federal Aviation Administration said it was rerouting planes around storms heading to the East Coast.
The plant produces anaesthesia and other drugs as well as nearly 25% of all sterile injectable medications used in US hospitals, Pfizer said on its website.
Texas tornadoes: According to media reports, Matador Mayor Pat Smith said that at least three people were killed due to the tornadoes, while others were possibly injured and there was “a whole lot of damage".
The tornado hit late Saturday afternoon with winds of 100 mph (160 kph) near Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center and headed northeast toward the coast.
Huge trees lay on the ground, their stumps reduced to nubs. Broken walls, windows and roofs pocked homes and businesses.
The Michigan State Patrol confirmed that one person was killed, saying in a tweet that more than 40 others were hurt and being treated at area hospitals. The patrol planned to hold a briefing Saturday morning.
A candle factory in Kentucky has been completely destroyed, said Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, adding that "There were about 110 people in it (candle factory) at the time that the tornado hit it."
The death toll of 36 across five states includes six people in Illinois, where an Amazon facility was hit; four in Tennessee; two in Arkansas, where a nursing home was destroyed; and two in Missouri.
Kentucky's Governor Andy Beshear on Saturday claimed that the tornado had killed 70 people.
PowerOutage.us, a website that tracks power outages across the country, said about 37,000 customers were without electricity on Saturday night in the affected areas.
North Carolina, April 20 : Shards of glass from old bottles and furniture smashed by a tornado that tore through town littered the concrete floor of Rhonda Carter's antique store, shattering her plans to open
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