Thank you for joining uspublished at 04:53 British Summer Time 1 April 2023
This concludes our live coverage of the severe weather in the central US for now.
- A strong tornado hit Little Rock, the capital of Arkansas, where 24 people have been hospitalised
- Two people are known to have died in the city of Wynne - around 170km east of Little Rock
- One person has been killed in Illinois after a theatre's roof collapsed in Belvidere
- Tens of thousands of people are without power in Arkansas, which has a state of emergency in place
- Missouri has also declared a state of emergency
- According to the weather service, north-eastern Arkansas, southern Missouri, western Kentucky and Tennessee will see the worst weather, including tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds