Keli Cain, the public information officer of the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management, said the first report of a tornado was after 4 p.m.in Garvin County.
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The National Weather Service says a tornado briefly touched down on the southeast edge of Lincoln, Neb., and there were reports of baseball-sized hail is falling in the area. “It was like the whole town was there”.
The tornadoes were part of a series of strong storms and warnings affecting Oklahoma and other states Monday.
Emergency officials in Johnston County say another person was also killed by a storm in that area.
This image made from a video taken through a vehicle window shows a tornado near Wynnewood, Okla., Monday, May 9, 2016.
Near Stillwater, roofs were ripped off homes, and an empty bus was blasted upward and left dangling in a tree, the channel reported.
Multiple tornadoes touched down in southern and central Oklahoma killing at least one person and leaving a path of destruction in its wake.
In southern Nebraska, the National Weather Service said a tornado caused some damage to a rural high school.
Storm chasers reported that one of the tornadoes was up to a mile wide at one point. It warned that residents of the towns were “in a life-threatening situation”.
Most of eastern Oklahoma was included in an enhanced risk of severe storms by the Storm Prediction Center.
In the rolling hills between Oklahoma City and Dallas, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol closed Interstate 35 near Wynnewood for 15 minutes Monday so the storm could pass. Hail larger than 2 inches in diameter was forecast from eastern Texas to southeastern Kansas.
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About 41 million people from Houston to Sioux City, Iowa, were at risk for some type of stormy weather over the next few days.
