At least six people were injured after tornado-producing storms left a trail of destruction in parts of Oklahoma

Tornadoes and flooding from severe storms ripped through parts of Oklahoma overnight, injuring six people and destroying homes and other property.

Six people were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, said Valerie Littlejohn, public information officer for the Oklahoma City Police Department.

She added that several structures were damaged in the area, including power lines, trees, gas pipelines, traffic lights and road signs.

National Weather Service teams are here damage investigation Sunday, among others in the town of Valley Brook, where storms caused severe damage.

Video showing damage from KOCO, CNN affiliate shows overturned cars and entire houses destroyed. The storms knocked down telephone poles and broke trees in half. Garbage is strewn across the affected areas, including large pieces of wood and metal from torn apart buildings.

As of Sunday morning, about 50,000 customers in Oklahoma remained without power, according to data power failure.us.

Tornadoes were reported east of Oklahoma City, and tornado and thunderstorm warnings were in effect from early morning in the Oklahoma City area, weather service he said.

Residents and local officials surveying damage Sunday morning are now preparing for additional storms expected Sunday and Monday.

“People, don’t let your guard down too much – we’re already starting to see the atmosphere starting to improve ahead of another wave of storms, heavy rain, flooding and potentially severe weather,” the weather service said in a post on X.

The Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management said it was monitoring severe weather conditions.

Flooding on Interstate 35 closed all northbound lanes except one near Forest Park in the Oklahoma City area, Oklahoma Department of Transportation he said.

The police are asking people to do this avoid some roads in the area due to damage.

Emergency services rescued two people trapped in an overturned mobile home after a storm hit Oklahoma City Fire Department. According to Public Information Officer Scott Douglas, crews also responded to several vehicles that were flooded due to heavy rainfall.

Around 1:20 weather service warned a severe thunderstorm with a tornado was moving through eastern Oklahoma City toward Midwest City and Tinker Air Force Base. A tornado warning was issued for more than 300,000 people in Moore, Midwest City and Del City.

“I wasn’t sleeping and I heard it rising real fast” – Justin Cue describes the moment a tornado hit his father’s house overnight, leaving him with minor injuries from flying glass and debris.

“Death started hitting the house, within seconds my window blew out and all I could hear was the roar of the wind and the sound of breaking wood and glass,” Cue told CNN.

Cue’s father, who moved to Oklahoma City from Kansas about two years ago, was also injured when the roof collapsed on him.

“He was unconscious for a short time and we weren’t sure if he was OK,” Cue said.

Cue said that when the couple managed to get out of the house around 1:30 a.m., neighbors screamed and helped pull people from the rubble until emergency services arrived.

The University of Oklahoma told students and staff at its Normandy campus to “seek shelter in the building you are in NOW. Move to the lowest floor/inside.”

Nighttime tornadoes are more than twice as deadly as daytime tornadoes, research shows. Nighttime tornadoes are difficult to spot in the dark, and sleepers may not realize that danger is close.

Is increased anxiety on the tornado threat this week, given what a prolific year it has been for twisters in the US. The number of tornadoes reported so far this year is the second highest on record, behind only the 2,156 tornadoes in 2011.

Severe thunderstorms are most common in the spring and summer, but a second wave of dangerous thunderstorms and tornadoes occur in the fall and winter when cold air from the north often collides with warmer, moist air moving in from the Gulf of Mexico.

CNN’s Mike Madrigal contributed to this report.

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