At least one person was killed and 25 were injured after several tornadoes blew through a farming region of eastern China on Wednesday. CGTN reported that 11 villages were struck by the tornadoes, in Guanyun County and Haizhou District of Lianyungang City, east China's Jiangsu Province.

In photos, roofs are seen torn clean off homes in Yancheng in Jiangsu Province, and trees lay snapped in half. The storms damaged 3,148 homes, according to the Lianyungang City government.

KESQ.com reported that the damage is estimated at more than $9.6 million. Some news outlets were reporting that the tornado that blew through Yancheng was classified as an EF3.

Swaths of China were experiencing extreme heat this week, like much of the Northern Hemisphere, with temperatures in some areas of China reaching 111 degrees Fahrenheit.

"In this case, a cold front was gliding through eastern China, into an extremely hot and humid air mass," weather.com senior meteorologist Jon Erdman explained. "Sanmen County, south of Shanghai, set its all-time record high Wednesday, soaring to 106F. This provided the fuel for the severe thunderstorms."

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Erdman confirmed that China averages about 60 tornadoes a year, about 5% of the average annual U.S. tornado count of 1,300. Despite that, they can often be strong and, given the higher population density, destructive and deadly.

Six years ago, China's deadliest tornado in 40 years, an EF4, struck the same area as Wednesday's tornadoes, killing 98 people and destroying 3,200 homes.

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