A slow-moving active storm system has brought heavy rains, large hail and tornadoes in some parts of Texas and Oklahoma and have left three dead as severe weather warnings continue to threaten parts of the South Center and Midwest US
On Sunday of Easter, the communities of Texas and Oklahoma began to assess the damage caused by the tornadoes. There were 17 events reported on Saturday, according to Bob Oravec, the forecaster of the National Weather Service of the National Weather Service. Five were confirmed in the Oklahoma-south center, one of which inflicted substantial damage to a small town that was Always recovery a walking tornado.
The storm also brought heavy rains to a wide strip of North Center through Oklahoma in the center-east, a large part of which saw 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 centimeters) accumulate on Sunday in Sunday.
Moore police, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of Oklahoma City, received dozens of reports on “high water incidents” during the weekend, including two cars blocked in flooding waters on Saturday evening. A car was swept away, and the police said they could save some people, but a 12 -year -old woman and boy had been found dead.
“It was a historic meteorological event that had an impact on the roads and led dozens of high water incidents across the city,” Moore police said in a statement. Moore has around 63,000 inhabitants.
The storm also killed a person about 80 miles (129 kilometers) further southeast after a tornado approached in Spaulding, according to Hughes county emergencies. The department wrote on Facebook that several houses and structures were destroyed and that there were “many washes” of the county roads.
The National Weather Service said that the preliminary damage survey has shown that the tornado was at least EF1, with wind speeds between 86 and 110 MPH (138 to 177 km / h), just like another south of Oklahoma City in the County of Love.
Oravec said the system did not move much in Texas and Oklahoma on Saturday, leaving the area stuck under a very active thunderstorm pattern that produced a large hail, sudden floods and tornadoes.
Bill Macon, director of emergency management in the county of Marshall of Oklahoma, said that their first evaluations show that a tornado “jumped and jumped” on a path of 6 to 7 miles (about 10 to 11 kilometers) in the rural area which left at least 20 damaged houses, with a completely destroyed part.
Macon said that people were mainly at home when the tornado late at night has passed, at the bottom of “huge” trees and dozens of electric posts and electric lines, but there had been no injury or death reports.
“We take these fairly serious things here in Oklahoma,” said Macon about the warnings of the National Weather Service.
A town in Oklahoma which still rebuilt a tornado in early March was struck on Saturday evening. The north side of Ada, a city that houses around 16,000 people, has undergone damage which, according to the meteorological service, indicated at least one Tornado EF1 on the basis of a preliminary investigation. Publications on social networks have shown that roofs have torn companies in town, windows of blown windows and display panels have made the side.
In a video published on Facebook, Jason Keck, Director of ADA emergency management, said the tornado seemed to follow the north side of the city at a shopping center, “leaving a lot of damage to buildings, electric lines and trees”.
A clothing store was “seriously damaged”, according to the ADA News, but “Bracked on both sides by intact structures”.
At least two tornadoes crossed the county of West Parker, Texas on Saturday, said the county’s emergency services on Facebook. The emergency teams were sent to several houses with torn roofs and exhibited houses, have shown photos. A detached roof ended up kissing in an alley.
The entire storm system moves northeast in Arkansas, Missouri, southern Illinois and Southeast Iowa, said Oravec. Although it moves faster, he said, the active system always carries the threat of a significant hail, strong winds and tornadoes in the region.
While heavy rains spanned Texas and Oklahoma at the end of Sunday afternoon, heavy additional rains are expected in certain parts of the plains this week, said Oravec. With already swollen streams and saturated soil, this leaves the area at risk of additional floods.
