After heavy storms, forecasters predict more to come
Source: AP
By SEAN MURPHY
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Communities in several southern Plains states set to work cleaning up Thursday after a night of storms that spawned 51 tornadoes, assessing the damage under sunny skies but with the threat of even worse weather on the horizon.
The storms strafed northern Texas, Nebraska and Kansas on Wednesday and early Thursday but reserved their worst for the Oklahoma City area, where at least a dozen people were injured in a trailer park and where a 43-year-old woman was killed. Skylyna Stewart apparently took cover in an underground storm shelter and drowned when it was deluged by floodwater, police Sgt. Gary Knight said.
While residents assessed the damage early Thursday afternoon, a large cluster of thunderstorms was developing in western Oklahoma that was expected to bring hail and damaging winds to the state. Meanwhile, storms that could produce more powerful tornadoes could rake the Plains on Friday and Saturday, said meteorologist John Hart of the Storm Prediction Center in Norman.
"The conditions are right; it's the right time of year," Hart said. "There are just a lot of things that make you think over the next three days there will probably be big tornadoes across the southern Plains."
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Jim Bresee, center, smiles as his daughter, Sandra Silvy, left, raises a flag in what is left of the Bresee\'s storage unit following Wednesday\'s storm in Oklahoma City, Thursday, May 7, 2015. His wife Carol Bresee is at right. The three are attempting to salvage what they can from the unit, but much is damaged due to rain. Gov. Mary Fallin has declared a state of emergency in 12 Oklahoma counties hit by tornadoes, severe storms, straight-line winds and flooding. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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A substantial severe weather event is possible across parts of the southern and central Great Plains on Saturday. The greatest risk for intense thunderstorms will extend from portions of western Kansas into western Oklahoma. Tornadoes, very large hail, and damaging winds are likely in these areas.
