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clipped from www.ldjackson.net If there is one thing you can depend on in Oklahoma, it is the weather. We are nearly to the middle of May and the storms that produce tornadoes are starting to roll across our state. Monday morning and most of the day, it was very nice in our state. There is nothing like a softball-sized hail stone or a giant funnel cloud coming at you to wake you up. Like I have already said, it is a miracle that more people were not killed or severely injured. clipped from www.msnbc.msn.com Houses lie in shambles in the mobile home community of Prairie Creek Village in Slaughterville, Okla., after a tornado ripped through Monday, May 10. NORMAN, Okla. - Violent storms that tore through the southern Plains killed five people and injured dozens more, leaving behind flattened homes, toppled semitrailers and downed power lines. "We saw it coming, but the best thing is my family's fine," Tegeler said. "You could just hear stuff hitting the house,"

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Tornado hits Okla.; no injuries reported

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clipped from www.usatoday.com HAMMON, Okla. (AP) — At least five homes and a barn owned by the county government were destroyed and other structures were damaged Monday by a large tornado in the western Oklahoma town of Hammon. No injuries were reported with the storm, Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management spokeswoman Michelann Ooten said. Besides the five homes that were destroyed, the roofs of several other houses were blown off, and power lines were down throughout the area, Ooten said. "It really skirted the southeast corner and missed the population center," Roger Mills County Sheriff Joe Hay said. "We had lots of warning. Our local storm spotters and the Hammon fire department were on top of the tornado before it got started." The barn — a large metal building — housed some vehicles and other equipment that belonged to Roger Mills County, officials said. The tornado was part of a large weather system tracking through the Plains.

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