Also, hail can be seen accumulating in the yard.
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“Everyone’s safe”, she said.
The sprawling system brought five reported twisters across Missouri, Kansas, Indiana and Texas, as well as hail – the largest reportedly the size of a grapefruit – across an arc from the Lone Star State all the way to West Virginia, according to The National Weather Service.
In Oklahoma, authorities were responding to reports of trees blown onto houses in the Tulsa area.
One person in Tomball, Texas, was killed Tuesday when a tree fell on an elderly woman’s home, killing her.
It appears that the tornado threat is likely nearing its end, Javaheri says. But I’m tracking another round of showers and storms that will push east across the area Wednesday night into early Thursday morning- roughly 9 pm to 3 am.
Next under the gun: states along the lower Mississippi River, from Missouri to Louisiana. One tornado roared through Omaha, Neb., but early reports indicated little damage. The Dallas star said Tuesday it was “pretty much” insane talk for coach Rick Carlisle to suggest after a first-round elimination in Oklahoma City that Nowitzki might consider playing elsewhere.
McIntosh County Emergency Manager Harry Trottier said a tornado ripped through the middle of the town of Checotah, Oklahoma. The storm caused a major gas leak, but there were no injuries.
There weren’t any tornado touchdowns in the state, according to the National Weather Service in Valley, but flooding sent up a scare in Deshler, where as much as 7 inches of rain fell on the town of roughly 750 people.
Residents of impacted areas should develop a plan to take shelter from a quick-forming storm without driving in severe conditions, said Storm Prediction Center meteorologist Matt Mosier.
About 11,000 lightning strikes were recorded between Dallas and Kansas city over a 30-minute stretch late Tuesday, CNN Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri noted.
The storm also snarled airline traffic across the Midwest.
At the airport in Cincinnati, Ohio, passenger Leah Wilmington had to sit on a plane as torrential rain prevented her departure. A warning can cover parts of counties or several counties in the path of danger.
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Hail as large as golf balls hit several areas in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma on Tuesday, the weather service said.
