Tornados reported nine U.S. states; severe storms, flash flooding to continue

A severe weather outbreak will continue in the Midwest on Sunday.
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Since Saturday afternoon, there have been 28 reports of tornadoes across nine states, including Minnesota, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Iowa and Louisiana.

Sunday's severe weather and flash flooding potential will extend from Minnesota, Wisconsin and western Upper Michigan to portions of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, eastern Oklahoma and Texas.

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Below are the most notable storm reports so far from Saturday afternoon through early Sunday morning.

Sunday's Reports:

  • Johnson County, Texas, EMA reported multiple swift water rescues Sunday morning from homes and vehicles in the Alvarado and Lillian areas. This is just south of the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area.
  • A tornado was reported near Ogden, Iowa at 4:01 a.m. CDT.
  • Several trailers were damaged near Independence, Louisiana at 3:46 a.m. CDT. This was due to a possible tornado.
Saturday's Reports:
  • A tornado struck Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, around 11:30 p.m. CDT Saturday. There are reports of structural damage and power outages in the area. The storm also damaged homes near Inola, Oklahoma, and that damage may also have been from a tornado.
  • The same circulation that affected Broken Arrow later produced a reported tornado near Fairland in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, damaging homes. There are early reports of damage from the same storm just to the east in Newton County, Missouri.
  • Earlier, a large tornado was reported in southwest Oklahoma around 6 p.m. CDT on Saturday. It tracked from south of Elmer to near Tipton to north of Manitou; it briefly crossed a bend in the Red River into extreme northern Texas along its path. Sporadic damage was reported along its path, though the twister did not hit any towns directly.
  • Police in Lyon County, Kansas, report storm damage across the county, including a stopped train that was blown over. Homes and barns were also damaged by the suspected tornado. The National Weather Service in Topeka plans to survey the damage Sunday.
  • Elsewhere in Oklahoma, tornadoes were reported 9 miles south of Anadarko; near Meers; and near Elk City along Interstate 80.
  • A multi-vortex tornado was reported 3 miles west-southwest of Murdock in west-central Minnesota at 5:51 p.m. CDT. Another brief tornado was reported northwest of Murdock Saturday afternoon.
  • A brief tornado touchdown was reported near Rosen, Minnesota, around 4:25 p.m. CDT. Ten minutes later, a tornado hit a farmstead north of Montevideo in Chippewa County, taking part of the roof off a building. Both locations are in west-central Minnesota.
  • A tornado was reported in the Texas Panhandle just after 2:30 p.m. CDT. Reports say it crossed U.S. Highway 287 near Lelia Lake, according to storm chasers in the area. Earlier, the day's first tornado report came in about 10 miles north of Silverton, Texas, at 1:12 p.m. CDT.
  • Law enforcement reported a tornado near Highway 14/16/20 in eastern Park County of northwest Wyoming around 1:30 p.m. MDT.
  • Baseball-size hail was reported just south of Goodlett, Texas, at 4:47 p.m. CDT. The same cell dropped baseball-size hail in Quanah, Texas, a few minutes later. Baseball-size hail also fell in Castle, Oklahoma, around 10 p.m. CDT.

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