One Dead in High Winds, Tornadoes That Left Trail of Damage Across Plains and Midwest
At a Glance Roofs were blown off and trees toppled over.Power outages topped 400,000 Wednesday evening.Portions of I-70 and other highways were shut down. The death of a semitrailer driver in Iowa is being blamed on high winds from a storm system that rolled across the Plains and Midwest Wednesday night, with gusts over 90 mph and damaging tornadoes that ripped roofs off homes, fueled wildfires and left hundreds of thousands without power. The driver was killed when high winds...