美国俄亥俄州遭遇毁灭性龙卷风

Tornadoes（龙卷风）ripped through（席卷） Ohio（俄亥俄州） tearing apart homes and damaging schools. Thousands are still under threat
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(CNN) The devastating（毁灭性的）severe weather（恶劣天气） that has barreled across（跨过） much of the Plains（平原）and Midwest this week is still not over.

Two suspected（疑似的）tornadoes slammed（猛然抨击）the Dayton（代顿市，俄亥俄州西南部城市）, Ohio, area Monday night, just 30 minutes apart, according to the National Weather Service（国家气象局）. A third suspected tornado injured（伤害）several people about 75 miles north of Dayton.






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The first suspected tornado to hit Dayton crossed I-75 north of the city around 11:07 p.m. and prompted（引起了）a "tornado emergency warning," the highest the weather service issues. The second crossed the highway about three miles away. Three minor injuries were reported, Dayton fire Chief Jeffrey Payne said.

A couple counties to the northwest, a suspected tornado touched down in the city of Celina, injuring seven people, according to Mercer County Emergency Management Agency（应急管理局） Director Mike Robbins. Three of them were in serious, but not life-threatening condition. The other four people suffered minor injuries, Robbins said.


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The areas that saw the most significant damage from the tornado were a neighborhood and an apartment complex（公寓大楼） in the northwest part of Celina, according to Robbins. The search and rescue mission continued early Tuesday.

More than 70,000 utility customers were without power in Ohio, the weather service in Wilmington, Ohio, said early Tuesday, citing data from the US Department of Energy（美国国家能源部）.
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The weather service will be conducting damage surveys for the next few days in the areas of Celina, New Madison, Laura, Dayton and Laurelville.






More than 540,000 people were under a tornado watch in southern Ohio Tuesday morning, CNN meteorologist（气象学家）Robert Shackelford said.

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