{"id":39137,"date":"2017-08-07T05:10:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T05:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=39137"},"modified":"2017-08-07T05:10:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T05:10:15","slug":"tulsa-tornado-injures-nearly-30-knocks-out-power-to-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/tulsa-tornado-injures-nearly-30-knocks-out-power-to-thousands.html","title":{"rendered":"Tulsa tornado injures nearly 30, knocks out power to thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tulsa tornado injures nearly 30, knocks out power to thousands<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Tulsa tornado injures nearly 30, knocks out power to thousands:- Nearly 30 people were injured early Sunday after a confirmed tornado slammed parts of Tulsa, Oklahoma, officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n

St. Francis Hospital told Fox 23 most of the emergency room patients’ storm-related injuries were minor.<\/span><\/p>\n

The storm damaged multiple businesses in the midtown section of the city, located southeast of downtown.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rayvonne Marcheselli told The Associated Press she received a tornado warning on her phone about five minutes before the storm hit and was able to get her 16, 17, and 18-year-old sons downstairs in their two-story home.<\/span><\/p>\n

“They pounced on the couch and then the ‘boom’ hit, and I was like ‘what was that?”‘ Marcheselli said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Later Sunday morning, she saw the damage. “Like a … razor, it just took out a path of trees through here,” Marcheselli said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of the heaviest damage was reported near Interstate 44, where several buildings lost portions of their roofs, and signs were torn down.<\/span><\/p>\n

The storm also damaged power poles and more than 11,000 customers were without power at one point. More than 9,000 remained without electricity Sunday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n

The interstate was closed for a short period of time due to a fallen sign on the highway, according to Fox 23.<\/span><\/p>\n

Officials at a nearby high school said in a Facebook post they are surveying damage at the school.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bishop Kelley High School said the only extensive damage at the school is to the breezeway in front of the school’s science and technology center.<\/span><\/p>\n

National Weather Service meteorologist Amy Jankowski said tornadoes are generally associated with spring months and said an August tornado is uncommon, but not “outrageously rare.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2017\/08\/06\/tulsa-tornado-injures-nearly-30-knocks-out-power-to-thousands.html<\/span><\/p>\n

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