A lady named Lisa Buckner heard about the tornado when she was on her way home. A roof lay near a hay barn after the first tornado reports from near Wynnewood along Interstate 35. The National Weather Service in Paducah, Kentucky, posted online Tuesday evening that tornadoes had touched down in western Kentucky and southern IL.
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The bad weather should settle in the OH and Tennessee valleys on Tuesday, forecasters said, while another storm system should bring bad weather to the area from north Texas to near St. Louis on Wednesday.
Strong to severe thunderstorms and tornadoes are possible again on Tuesday in the Ohio Valley and southern Plains.
The day following a tornado outbreak that killed two people in Oklahoma, National Weather Service officials examined the damage Tuesday left behind as residents pick up the pieces from Monday’s storms.
At least three tornadoes hit Oklahoma, at the same time, on Monday afternoon.
The counties are: Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Cleveland, Coal, Comanche, Garvin, Johnston, Kay, McCurtain, Murray, Noble, Payne, Stephens and Tillman.
The storms spawned at least 11 confirmed tornadoes, eight of which hit Oklahoma, according to the Storm Prediction Center, and more than 90 hail reports.
Tornadoes on Monday killed two people, one each in Garvin and Johnston counties, injured many more and damaged homes and other buildings across the state.
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In Hugo, near the Red River, Charles Webb piled one of his dogs and one of his cats in the laundry room Monday and hunkered down as the storm came over his house, clipping trees and spinning up debris. She said it sounded like a train. He held on until the twister passed, but his home collapsed during the storm. It opened about 15 minutes later. She said the tornado did not scare her because she was used to those situations.
