At least 2 dead, numerous injuries; extensive damage reported

OKLAHOMA CITY — Powerful tornadoes tore through parts of Oklahoma on Tuesday, obliterating houses, splintering trees and tossing cars off highways. At least two people were killed and several people injured.

Television footage in the aftermath of the storms showed remnants of homes and buildings strewn across roads and fields. One car wound up wrapped around a tree. A helicopter from NBC station KFOR of Oklahoma City tracked one storm as it slammed the McClain County town of Goldsby, south of Norman, and plowed across farmland beyond.

As the copter’s camera zoomed in one obliterated house, a family emerged from a storm shelter. The foundation was the only thing recognizable, a flat pad wiped clean with a debris field spreading away from it. A large propane tank in the middle of the debris could be seen hissing gas. An overturned vehicle lay nearby. Near the town of Cashion, a storm spotter saw “extreme tornado damage” and “houses swept” away, the Weather Channel said. source – MSNBC