The National Weather Service has confirmed several EF4-strength tornadoes in outbreaks of severe weather this month, the most since 1997.

PITTSBURG COUNTY, Okla. — After Monday night’s tornadoes, hundreds of people are still without power and water in Pittsburg County. Two tornadoes traveled near the Pittsburg County line, and thousands of people are feeling the impact in rural towns across the county.

Much of the state is expected to experience a moderate risk of tornadoes with a current severe thunderstorm warning in effect.

WICHITA — On May 4, 2007, Greensburg, Kansas, was slammed by a 205 mph EF5 tornado that killed 12 and damaged or destroyed much of the town. On Sunday night, it almost happened again as a family of massive, violent tornadoes tore through south-central Kansas.

The violent tornado tore through Moore, Oklahoma, on May 20, 2013, killing 24 people and injuring dozens more.

The agency’s office in Jackson, Kentucky, had begun closing nightly as deep cuts by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency began hitting. But the weather service kept staffers on overtime Friday night to stay on top of the deadly storms, which killed nearly 20 people in the Jackson office’s forecast area.

Additionally, there was no evidence that tornado sirens in the area had been deactivated by the Trump administration's budget cuts — if there was, the people affected by the storm certainly would have noted that fact in interviews.