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One killed in Oklahoma tornado as severe storms batter central and southern states
Bartlesville, 20 miles to the northeast, was equally affected. A lodge within the city was severely broken, as proven in social media posts uploaded by witnesses — firefighters have been known as to rescue some folks trapped inside.
Bartlesville’s metropolis’s authorities stated there had been important injury throughout Bartlesville, with some energy strains down, however solely minor accidents reported to date. Residents have been urged to remain inside and keep off the roads.
The Nationwide Climate Service issued a uncommon twister emergency assertion for Osage on Monday. “A big, extraordinarily harmful and probably lethal twister is on the bottom,” it stated. The twister watch was prolonged till 5 a.m. Tuesday.
Osage Nation Emergency Administration and native police stated on Fb it had joined “quite a few businesses for search and rescue via the Osage Nation Reservation.”
“Our group is robust and keen to assist these in want,” it stated.
Throughout Oklahoma, greater than 25,000 power clients have been with out energy as of 5 a.m. native time Tuesday, in line with the web site PowerOutage.us, whereas 18,000 have been with out energy in Missouri and virtually 10,000 in Arkansas.
The Nationwide Climate Service stated the extreme climate — which has affected components of the nation for greater than 5 weeks — will proceed not less than into Wednesday as an space of low strain develops over the Nice Lakes.
A twister additionally swept via Smithville, Tennessee, bringing down bushes and damaging homes, as seen in footage uploaded to social media.
Three folks had been confirmed lifeless in Texas on account of storms and floods there, Gov. Greg Abbott stated Monday.
Extreme thunderstorms are nonetheless transferring throughout components of the Midwest Tuesday morning, with 29 million folks below a extreme storm threat in areas together with the Tennessee and Ohio River Valleys. Chicago; Nashville, Tennessee; Toledo, Ohio; and Ann Arbor, Michigan might additionally see devastating climate.
Kathryn Prociv contributed.
