A widespread, deadly, and violent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_outbreak_of_December_10–11,_2021" id="mwAW8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021">tornado outbreak</a> slams the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_United_States" id="mwAXA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Central United States">Central</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States" id="mwAXE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Midwestern United States">Midwestern</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States" id="mwAXI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Southern United States">Southern</a> regions of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" id="mwAXM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States">United States</a>. Eighty-nine people are killed by the tornadoes, with most of the fatalities occurring in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky" id="mwAXQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kentucky">Kentucky</a>, where a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Western_Kentucky_tornado" id="mwAXU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="2021 Western Kentucky tornado">single tornado</a> kills 57 people, and injures hundreds of others.<sup about="#mwt112" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-19"}}' id="cite_ref-19" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_10#cite_note-19" id="mwAXY" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 19;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAXc">[19]</span></a></sup>
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