How many died in the Tornado in Oklahoma City according to the news?”
OKLAHOMA CITY, May 11 (UPI) — Emergency workers searched tornado-damaged areas in Oklahoma Tuesday, looking for the injured and dead, as the area braced for more storms. At least 37 tornadoes touched down Monday in Oklahoma and Kansas. At least six deaths were reported, all in Oklahoma, and about 60 people were injured, mostly in Oklahoma, The Kansas City Star said. The Storm Prediction Center said 13 tornadoes were reported in Kansas and the rest in Oklahoma. Michelann Ooten, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management, said some of the worst damage occurred in the Oklahoma City area. One tornado struck a truck stop off Interstate 40. “Although it’s not unlike what we’ve seen in other tornadoes, you never get used to it,” she told The New York Times. “Pick-up sticks is all you see.” Chris Moore of Midwest City said he pulled into Love’s Truck Stop when the tornado approached as he drove home, The Oklahoman reported. The manager converted the cooler into a tempor
The human toll of the tornadoes that struck Oklahoma Monday, killing five and injuring more than 50, could potentially have been much worse. Local weather reports forecast the Oklahoma tornado with remarkable accuracy, pinpointing Monday specifically as the day when the “likelihood exists for a significant severe weather episode in the plains states,” according to a local news report made a day before the tornadoes struck. With the advance warning, some TV broadcasters dedicated the entire day to storm coverage. IN PICTURES: Oklahoma tornadoes Meteorologists had been tracking the weather system since the previous week. The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., warned the region that the atmosphere had the right mix of winds, heat, and moisture for tornadoes. Indeed stormchasers from North Carolina State University, in Oklahoma to study tornadoes, said conditions were ripe. “The models had been predicting for several days that there would be a severe weather outbreak, so no one was
