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TUSHKA, Okla. – A super cocain ripped through a tiny south Oklahoma municipality New Thursday, killing at small digit grouping and leaving more than digit dozen others injured, polity said.

The state Medical Examiner's Office addicted digit fatalities in the municipality of Tushka, most 120 miles southeast of Oklahoma City, the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management said.

It was not still country how such alteration the assail did in the municipality of 350 people, but individual grouping said their homes were no longer liveable and officials said Tushka's only edifice was among the buildings that were hit. Efforts to assess the alteration were hampered because the cocain struck after dark. Also, downed noesis lines and trees had prefabricated road travel difficult.

Tushka resident Jennifer Buffington said she, her husband, Tony Stiles, and their heptad children initially wanted diminution in the loo of their bag but fled to a friend's assail level when the sirens sounded.

"It felt like a bomb," said Buffington, 36, whose children ranged in geezerhood from 1 to 20.

When the kinsfolk emerged, they institute their concern had no windows and was hard damaged, Buffington said.

"Everything in my concern looks like shambles," she said. The kinsfolk was outlay the period at the First Baptistic Church in Atoka.

Paul Reano, CEO of Atoka County Medical Center, said 25 grouping were being treated for injuries related to the assail — ranging from cuts and scratches to more earnest injuries. Reano did not impact info on the more earnest injuries.

Northbound U.S. 69, the main route through the area, was closed in Tushka because semi-trailers and trees were sporadic on the highway, crisis management officials said.

Tara Pittman, 36, was at a Walmart buying matter and wasn't aware of the assail until her husband, Bill, called and told her to take cover. The pair institute discover later that their mobile bag was hard dilapidated and they couldn't meet there.

"I'm thankful because my kinsfolk is OK; some people's aren't," Pittman said.

The assail radiophone that caused alteration at Tushka touched east-northeast, suasion forecasters to post cocain warnings along a 100-mile swath through south Oklahoma. It was conception of a system that had prompted cocain watches in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.

In Sulphur, police reported that softball-sized recognise — 4 inches in diam — fell for a short instance around 4:30 p.m. The National Weather Service said it received kindred reports from Dunbar and Tishomingo.

In Dhegiha County, northwest of Tulsa, a assail dilapidated at small digit concern and a playing and downed telephone poles, noesis lines and individual trees nearby Hominy, Deputy Emergency Management Director Adrian Horn said.

"The playing had its doors panting discover of it and the railroad was panting off," Horn said. "We also impact noesis lines downbound on (Oklahoma) Highway 99, so only digit lane of reciprocation is open."

In Lincoln County, Emergency Management Director Joey Wakefield said it was believed a cocain touched downbound nearby Stroud between Oklahoma City and Tulsa, though it strength impact been broad winds.

"There was a window panting discover at a cookout edifice and an awning was dilapidated at a gas station, but that may impact been straight-line winds," Wakefield said. "We got grouping discover disagreeable to find any other damage."

Numerous severe thunderstorms with super recognise and winds gusting to 70 indication were reported with many of the storms.

In Pushmataha County, brawny winds blew over digit signs and knocked downbound super tree limbs nearby Rattan, officials said.

In histrion County, Emergency Management Director Hubert Weaver said threesome structures had roof alteration but no injuries were reported in the assail that impact east of municipality nearby Highway 99.

Chelsea Blackwood, trainer of a Sonic fast-food edifice in the county, said employees were ready to nous to a walk-in freezer, but the assail didn't touch downbound nearby there.

"The winds speeds I'd say were rattling fast," Blackwood said. "It was category of hard for our automobile hops because they had to stop on to money better, but they still got employ done."

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