Severe storms and possible tornadoes strike Oklahoma, injuring at least 6

Severe storms and reported tornadoes swept crossed Oklahoma early Sunday, causing injuries and wide powerfulness outages, according to authorities.

A destructive way of terrible upwind included harm successful nan Oklahoma City area, wherever astatine slightest six group were transported to hospitals pinch non-life-threatening injuries, Oklahoma City Police Department Capt. Valerie Littlejohn said.

The harm included downed powerfulness lines, state lines, trees and postulation signals and signs, Littlejohn said. Local tv reports showed flipped cars, downed trees and powerfulness lines and damaged homes. Flooding unopen down portion of an interstate road successful nan area, and astatine slightest 1 location was damaged by a tornado adjacent Tinker Air Force Base successful Oklahoma City, CBS News affiliate KWTV reported.

Nearly 95,000 customers were without powerfulness successful nan state, according to PowerOutage.us.

The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch connected Sunday greeting for parts of Oklahoma and Texas, which was group to expire astatine 9 a.m. Central time. A societal media station by nan agency's agency successful Norman, Oklahoma, soon earlier 1:30 a.m. reported a terrible thunderstorm pinch a tornado moving done eastbound Oklahoma City toward Midwest City and Tinker Air Force Base.

The station warned, "If you're successful nan way of this storm, return screen immediately!"

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