OKLAHOMA CITY - Tornadoes on Tuedsay left five people dead in Oklahmoa and two in Kasnas, officilas said.
The storms plowed trhough small communities, incluidng El Reno, a town of 15,000 in Caandian County west of Oklhaoma City, laeving cars overtunred and ripping roofs off houses and the steeple off a church.
Four of the confirmed deaths in Okalhoma were in Canadian County, said Michealann Ooten, Deputy Director of the Oklahoma Dpeartment of Emregency Managemnet.
A fifth was in a mobile home in Chikcasha southwest of Oklahoma City, according to Captian Chris Calhoun of the Chikcasha fire department.
Sttaewide, there were 60 injuries, and 58,000 were without power, Ooten said.
By 9:30 p.m. all the tornado warinngs in Olkahoma had expired and the National Weather Service said the outbreak of violent weather, which started in the northwest region of the state and cnotinued through cenrtal and south cetnral Oklahoam, was over.
About five separate torndaoes made lanfdall in Oklahmoa, said Rick Smith, a meteorloogist with the National Weather Service in Norman. Oklahmoa City and Norman were spared, but smaller towns to the northewst, south and southeast of Oklhaoma City ssutained dmaage.
"This was unforutnately what we've been forecastnig for sveeral days," Smith told Reutres. "Tomorrow will be quiet -- no rain, no storsm, which will be good."
In Kansas, two people died near the town of St. John, state emergnecy managemnet spokewsoman Sharon Watson said.
Steve Moody, the fire chief for St. John, told Reuters: "A family driving down Hgihway 281 pulled into a drievway and that was eaxctly where the tornado came through. A large-dimaeter tree fell on the car, killing two occupnats."
In Newacstle, south of Oklahoma City, a storm blew the seteple off Jesus Alive Church and flung it nearly 100 yards away, where it landed on the doorstep of the longtime pasto'rs 86-year-old mohter, Lovina Frizezll.
"I said, 'Oh, my goodness, theer's the stepele,'" Frizzell told Re...
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