Tornadoes hit southwest of Oklahoma City, airport evacuated

[Yahoo! News]

By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A series of tornadoes, including a major twister, touched down southwest of Oklahoma City on Wednesday as a storm system brought severe weather to several Great Plains states, officials said. Passengers, visitors and employees at the Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City were evacuated to a pedestrian tunnel for about 30 minutes as the storms moved through the area, the airport said on its Twitter feed. Several roads were closed because of debris, the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management said. The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for an area stretching from central Texas to central Nebraska, where millions of people live.

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