Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management spokeswoman Keli Cain said she isn’t yet listed as what would be the state’s first storm-related death. A community that was on edge due to a pair of runaway barges is still not allowed back in their homes. The unidentified woman’s body was sent to the state medical examiner’s office to confirm the cause of death. Missouri authorities said heavy rain was a contributing factor in the deaths of two people in a traffic accident Tuesday near Springfield.Ī fourth weather-related death may have occurred in Oklahoma, where the Highway Patrol said a woman apparently drowned after driving around a barricade Tuesday near Perkins, about 45 miles (72 kilometres) northeast of Oklahoma City. Officials there say she was killed by a possible tornado that damaged a farmstead in Adair County. The river was expected to crest Thursday at 36.1 feet (11 metres) near the town of Glasgow, Missouri, overtopping agricultural levees and inundating some homes, highways and parkland.ĭeaths from this week’s storms include a 74-year-old woman found early Wednesday morning in Iowa.
If the dam breaks, it will be catastrophic!! Leave now!!”Īlong the Missouri River, about 50 levees in Missouri could be overtopped by Saturday as high water levels move downstream, according to the Army Corps of Engineers. The barges are loose and has the potential to hit the lock and dam 16. Town officials ordered a mandatory evacuation Wednesday afternoon because of the river’s rising level.īut Wednesday evening, a posting on the town’s official Facebook page sounded the alarm for its 600 residents: “Evacuate Webbers Falls immediately. The Arkansas River town of Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, was one such town. hit with another day of tornadoes, but St. (KFSM) Hours after the Muskogee County Emergency Management issued a complete evacuation of Webbers Falls, the agency reported it was already seeing roads flooding. The emergency was the latest consequence of storms and torrential rains in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma that caused at least three deaths.Īuthorities urged residents of several small towns in Oklahoma and Kansas to leave their homes as rivers and streams rose. Two barges broke loose Wednesday night on the flooded Arkansas River in eastern Oklahoma, spreading alarm downstream as they threatened to ram into a dam. Send this page to someone via email email Hours after the Muskogee County Emergency Management issued a complete evacuation of Webbers Falls on Tuesday (May 21), the agency reported it was already seeing roads flooding.
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