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A Facebook group, Quad State Tornado Found Items, has been flooded with posts detailing items that people have found amid the wreckage, or are missing.

The Independent’s Gino Spocchia reports:

A viral video shows a Kentucky resident playing the piano inside the wreckage of his home after it was struck by a tornado.

As his family sifted through what was left of their house in Bremen, Jordan Baize sat down to play the hymn “There’s Something About That Name” on a grand piano that survived the storm.

Mr Baize’s sister, Whitney Brown, posted a video of the uplifting sight on Facebook, where it racked up thousands of views.

“Music has always been important to me. Specifically church music, Christian music,” Mr Baize told WFIE. “My faith is a huge factor in my life but I am glad to know I guess that if it’s bringing peace and comfort and some sense of calm in an otherwise stormy time, then I am good with that.”

Several Amazon employees have lodged complaints about the company’s lack of emergency training after six people were killed when a tornado struck a distribution centre in Edwardsville, Illinois, on Friday.

The Intercept obtained copies of the complaints posted to Amazon’s internal “Voice of Associates” message board.

The employees lamented an alleged absence of safety drills for emergencies such as tornadoes and fires, saying they had no idea what to do should such an event hit their workplace.

They also claimed that the company discouraged them from taking time off during natural disasters because doing so would slow production.

Workers at a Kentucky candle factory that was destroyed by tornados last week say they were told they would be fired if they tried to leave their shifts early, according to reports.

At least four workers at the Mayfield Consumer Products factory in Mayfield, Kentucky told NBC News that bosses refused them permission to leave the building even as warning sirens began to wail.

At least eight people died in the factory when it was torn apart on Friday night, part of a confirmed death toll in the state that climbed to 74 with 100 still missing as of Monday afternoon. The Independent’s Io Dodds reports:

Of the 74 people confirmed dead in Kentucky, at least 11 are children, according to local reports.

Six children from two families were killed in Bowling Green, Warren County, per WNKY:

Mayfield, Graves County

Dawson Springs, Hopkins/Caldwell counties

A devastating, disorienting scene has been left in the wake of a powerful tornado outbreak across six states on Friday night.

Dozens of people have been killed and nearly 100 more remain unaccounted for.

Entire towns were reduced to rubble and twisted wreckage, unrecognisable to those who lived there.

Louise Boyle has more:

Winter tornadoes may become stronger and stay on the ground for longer with a wider swath of destruction as the world’s temperature increases, a new study shows.

The combination of a longer and wider track with slightly stronger winds means that some rare winter tornadoes may have nine times more the power by the end of the century, should levels of carbon dioxide levels continue to increase.

The study, which was presented at the American Geophysical Union conference on Monday, pre-dates the Mayfield, Kentucky tornado outbreak and has yet to be peer reviewed.

It looks at strength and not frequency of big tornadoes as climate change continues.

“There is a potential for events in the future that are more intense that would not have been as intense in the current climate,” said study author Jeff Trapp, head of atmospheric sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

“Bearing in mind that these high end events are still going to be rare.”

Kentucky Lt. Governor Jacqueline Coleman told NBC: ““The only thing that rivals this level of destruction is the level of community and support that we’ve seen.”

The powerful tornado outbreak that ripped across six states late on Friday and in the early hours of Saturday has killed at least 88 people, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday morning.

The death toll rose as massive recovery efforts were underway in regions of the central and southern US.

Dozens of tornadoes ripped across hundreds of miles from Arkansas, where a nursing home was destroyed, to Illinois, where an Amazon distribution center was heavily damaged.

Kentucky resident Jim Finch drove to Mayfield, one of the hardest-hit areas after a string of deadly tornadoes struck six states over the weekend, to set up his grill and hand out food to those affected by the extreme weather.

A video of Mr Finch by reporter Victor Ordoñez posted on Twitter had reach more than 3.4m views by afternoon on Wednesday.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said on Monday that at least 64 people have died in the state, but he added that “undoubtedly, there will be more”.

Gustaf Kilander reports: