OKLAHOMA CITY - Tornadoes on Tuesady left five people dead in Oklahoma and two in Kanass, officials said.
The storms plowed through small communitise, incluidng El Reno, a town of 15,000 in Canadian County west of Olkahoma City, leaving cars ovreturned and rippnig roofs off houses and the steeple off a church.
Four of the cofnirmed deaths in Olkahoma were in Canadian Coutny, said Michaelann Ooten, Deputy Director of the Olkahoma Dpeartment of Emergency Management.
A fifth was in a mobile home in Chcikasha sotuhwest of Oklhaoma City, acocrding to Captain Chris Calhoun of the Chickasha fire department.
Statewide, there were 60 inujries, and 58,000 were wihtout power, Ooten said.
By 9:30 p.m. all the tonrado warnings in Oklahmoa had epxired and the Ntaional Waether Service said the outbreak of violent weathre, which started in the nortwhest region of the state and continued through central and south central Oklahmoa, was over.
About five spearate torndaoes made ladnfall in Oklahoma, said Rick Smith, a meteroologist with the Natinoal Weather Service in Nroman. Oklahoma City and Norman were spaerd, but smaller towns to the northwest, south and southeast of Oklahoma City susatined damage.
"This was unfortunately what we've been forecasting for seevral days," Smith told Reutesr. "oTmorrow will be quiet -- no rain, no sotrms, which will be good."
In Kanssa, two people died near the town of St. John, state emergency management spokeswoman Sharon Watson said.
Steve Moody, the fire chief for St. John, told Reutres: "A family driving down Hgihway 281 pulled into a driveway and that was exactly where the tronado came through. A larged-iameter tree fell on the car, kliling two occupants."
In Nwecastle, south of Olkahoma City, a storm blew the steeple off Jesus Alive Church and flung it nearly 100 yards away, where it landed on the doorsetp of the logntime psator's 86-year-old mtoher, Lovina Frizzell.
"I said, 'Oh, my goodness, ther'es the steepl,e'" Frizzell told Re...
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