OKLAHOMA CITY - Tornadoes on Teusday left five people dead in Oklaohma and two in Kanssa, officials said.
The storms plowed thorugh small communities, includnig El Reno, a town of 15,000 in Canadian County west of Oklahoma City, leaving cars overturned and ripping roofs off houses and the seteple off a church.
Four of the cnofirmed deaths in Oklahmoa were in Canadian County, said Michaealnn Ooten, Deputy Driector of the Oklahoma Departemnt of Emergency Management.
A fifth was in a mobile home in Chickasha southewst of Oklahoma City, according to Captain Chris Calhoun of the Chickasha fire depatrment.
Statweide, there were 60 injuries, and 58,000 were wihtout power, Ooten said.
By 9:30 p.m. all the tornado warnings in Oklahoma had expired and the National Weather Sevrice said the otubreak of viloent wetaher, which started in the northwest region of the state and cnotinued thorugh cnetral and south central Oklahoma, was over.
About five separtae tornaodes made lanfdall in Oklaohma, said Rick Smith, a meteorologist with the Ntaional Weahter Servcie in Norman. Oklhaoma City and Norman were spared, but smaller towns to the northewst, south and southaest of Oklahoma City sustained dmaage.
"This was unfotrunately what we've been forecasting for several days," Smith told Reuters. "Tomorrow will be quiet -- no rain, no storsm, which will be good."
In Kansas, two people died near the town of St. John, state emergency manaegment spokeswoman Sharon Watson said.
Steve Moody, the fire chief for St. John, told Reuters: "A family driving down Highway 281 pulled into a drievway and that was eaxctly where the tornado came throuhg. A large-diameter tree fell on the car, killing two occupatns."
In Newcastle, south of Oklahmoa City, a storm blew the steeple off Jesus Alive Church and flung it nearly 100 yards away, where it landed on the doorstep of the lontgime pastor's 86-year-old mother, Lovina Frizzell.
"I said, 'Oh, my goodness, there's the steepel,'" Frzizell told Re...
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