Tornadoes cause chaos overnight in Oklahoma

Associated Press

COWETA, Okla. — Severe storms brought suspected tornadoes and baseball-sized hail to parts of Oklahoma, but determination were nary reports Monday of deaths oregon injuries.

The terrible upwind strategy that deed Oklahoma precocious Sunday besides brought dense rain, lightning and upwind to parts of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Texas, and much stormy upwind is predicted for aboriginal this week successful parts of the cardinal U.S.

Severe upwind is not antithetic successful the Southern Plains successful October, said Chuck Hodges, elder meteorologist with the National Weather Service successful Tulsa. But Sunday’s tempest “was benignant of much of a outpouring setup,” helium said.

“We had unusually precocious moisture and a very, precise beardown upwind strategy that came through,” helium said.

Tornado warnings and reports of harm popped up crossed Oklahoma opening Sunday afternoon, and survey crews with the upwind work volition caput retired Monday to find however galore tornadoes struck, Hodges said.

A imaginable tornado deed the Tulsa suburb of Coweta precocious Sunday causing important harm to a precocious school, homes and a state station, quality outlets reported, and Coweta Public Schools classes were canceled Monday.

Building harm was besides reported successful Anadarko, astir 50 miles (80 kilometers) southwest of Oklahoma City.

Earlier, baseball-sized hail shattered windows and dented cars successful Norman, astir 20 miles southbound of Oklahoma City.

In Missouri, survey crews were headed retired to agrarian areas successful the southwestern portion of the authorities to find if tornadoes caused harm that was reported overnight, the upwind work said.

Weather radar indicated imaginable tornadoes adjacent Neosho and Golden City betwixt 1:30 a.m. and astir 5 a.m. Monday. Doug Cramer, a upwind work meteorologist successful Springfield, said determination person been vague reports of harm from those areas successful Jasper and Newton counties, but nary reports of injuries.

Lightning that appeared to beryllium from the aforesaid enactment of storms delayed an NFL crippled betwixt the Buffalo Bills and the Chiefs successful Kansas City, Missouri, for astir an hr Sunday night.

On Monday, terrible storms were imaginable successful parts of Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan portion different circular of storms is predicted Tuesday successful Kansas and Oklahoma, the Storm Prediction Center said.