Tornadoes in Oklahoma, Kansas: See photos, videos of severe weather from central Plains
Strong storms battered the central Plains on Sunday night, bringing damaging winds and tornadoes to Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Colorado.
In western and central Oklahoma, baseball-sized hail came crashing down while multiple tornadoes formed near Custer City in western Oklahoma as well as near Yukon and Mustang. In Blaine County, northwest of Oklahoma City, a nursing home was damaged.
In Custer County, 10-15 homes were damaged and two people were injured, according to the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management. Search and rescue efforts were ongoing early Monday morning as damage assessments began.
Golf ball-sized hail fell in Kansas and Nebraska, with winds reaching 70-80 mph blowing roofs off of houses, snapping power poles and uprooting trees, according to multiple reports.
In Kansas, over 37,000 outages were reported while over 13,000 utility customers in Oklahoma had outages, according to a Paste BN outage tracker.
Severe weather: Tornadoes threaten central US for second day after multiple twisters formed Sunday
Photos, videos from Sunday's storms
Monday weather forecast
More than 16 million people from Colorado to Illinois were bracing for a barrage of dangerous weather conditions Monday, including large hail, high winds and possible tornadoes, according to the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center.
The storms are slated to continue from overnight, but will gain momentum and intensity in the afternoon and evening as the weather system heads east and organizes over the Midwest states. Meanwhile, a new storm from the Rockies is forecast to emerge over the central Plains in the evening, bringing a renewed threat of flooding, hail and winds from Kansas to Michigan, according to AccuWeather.
Multiple rounds of supercells, the most dangerous and violent thunderstorm type, are possible throughout northeast Colorado, southwest Nebraska as well as Iowa and Illinois, the weather service said.
National weather radar
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