The storms resulted in at least two fatalities with crews
responding to several people injured and trapped in their homes,
McClain County Emergency Management said in a Facebook post,
urging residents to stay out of the affected areas.
The National Weather Service (NWS) had issued warnings for
severe thunderstorms, hail, and tornadoes for Wednesday into the
night across parts of the Central U.S. including Oklahoma,
Kansas and Iowa.
Strong thunderstorms with severe weather potential were forecast
for Thursday morning into the afternoon, according to the NWS.
Almost 20,000 customers in Oklahoma remained without power as of
early Thursday due to the storms, according to the website .
This comes weeks after a tornado tore through southeastern
Missouri, killing five people. A previous bout of thunderstorms
also unleashed a tornado last month that devastated the town of
Rolling Fork, Mississippi, destroying many of the community's
400 homes and killing 26 people.
(Reporting by Yana Gaur and Jyoti Narayan in Bengaluru; Editing
by Mark Potter)
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