Tornadoes rip through Oklahoma killing two, including a child - as devastating videos show twisters flattening homes, toppling trees and causing blackouts in Nebraska and Iowa with 27M people under alerts

Dozens of tornadoes person been leveling towns, closing highways and cutting disconnected powerfulness passim nan Midwest since Friday, and it's been revealed that astatine slightest 2 group person died from nan terrible upwind front.

Twisters ripped done Holdenville, Oklahoma on Saturday night, pinch officials confirming this greeting that location person been 2 fatalities, including 1 child.

Flood watches and warnings are successful effect Sunday for Oklahoma, 1 of nan hardest deed states, arsenic good as Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas and Texas.

Hughes County Emergency Management confirmed nan deaths in Holdenville, 1 of them a 4-month-old baby, connected apical of 14 homes being damaged aliases destroyed.

The hunt for trapped aliases missing individuals successful nan municipality started Saturday nighttime aft nan large wind near nan area. The four-month-old child, who lived successful a location that was reportedly destroyed, was among nan group authorities were looking for. 

The kid was recovered and taken to a infirmary but was later pronounced dead. 

As authorities measure nan harm to Holdenville and different towns that were struck by tornados, the decease toll is feared to summation arsenic nan time goes on.

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt issued a connection Sunday morning: 'My prayers are pinch those who mislaid loved ones arsenic tornadoes ripped done Oklahoma past night. 

'Thank you to Oklahoma Emergency Management and those who person worked done nan nighttime to support Oklahomans safe and person worked to clear debris and measure damage.'

Stitt has besides declared a authorities of emergency successful 12 counties arsenic crews activity to clear debris and measure harm from nan terrible storms that tore down powerfulness lines. Later successful nan day, he plans to circuit nan confederate Oklahoma metropolis of Sulphur, wherever galore buildings are unrecognizable.

Sulphur is astir 65 miles southwest of Holdenville, and devastating video of its complete annihilation went viral connected societal media.

The videos, captured by Brandon Clement, show Sulphur successful complete ruin. 

The first video was taken while it was still acheronian and shows nan rubble Sulphur's downtown has been reduced to.

Clement recorded nan 2nd video pinch a drone and panned complete nan full municipality of Sulphur, showing destroyed buildings, downed powerlines and upturned cars.

Marietta, different municipality successful Oklahoma, suffered harm to its hospital, according to nan Oklahoma Office of Emergency Management.

As group successful mini towns crossed nan Midwest prime up nan pieces, nan upwind threat isn't remotely over. Approximately 27 cardinal Americans are still astatine consequence of of terrible weather into Sunday, including upwind gusts, hail, flood risk, and perchance much tornadoes, NBC News reported.

Over 34,000 Oklahomans were without powerfulness arsenic of Sunday morning, according to poweroutage.us, which tracks electrical inferior outages. In Texas, nan bluish conception of which was deed pinch astatine slightest 10 twisters, astir 67,000 customers are without power.  

Based connected forecasts from nan National Weather Service, location are astatine slightest 5 cities astatine consequence of experiencing tornados Sunday.

Springfield, Missouri; Little Rock, Arkansas; Houston, Texas; and Lake Charles, Louisiana, each person a 2 to 4 percent chance of tornados. Shreveport, Louisiana has an up to 9 percent chance of tornados.

The outskirts of Tulsa, Oklahoma and Dallas, Texas could besides beryllium affected.

The onslaught of tornados kicked disconnected Friday day adjacent Lincoln, Nebraska, wherever an business building successful Lancaster County was hit. 

The Garner Industries installation collapsed pinch 70 group inside. Several were trapped, but everyone was evacuated, and nan 3 injuries were not life-threatening, authorities said. 

One aliases possibly 2 tornados that near harm accordant pinch a EF3 twister (135mph to 165mph winds) past began to move toward Omaha, said a meteorologist successful nan National Weather Service's Omaha office.

The tornado deed Elkhorn, Nebraska, connected nan outskirts of Omaha, astatine astir 4 p.m. connected Friday wherever it wrecked astatine slightest six homes - each of them recently built - and damaged dozens more.

'The full vicinity conscionable to nan northbound of america is beautiful flattened,' Kim Woods, whose location was mostly spared, said. 

Staci Roe, connected nan different hand, wasn't arsenic lucky. She said nan irreparable harm to her two-year-old 'forever home' caused her 'utter dread' erstwhile she saw it for nan first time.

'There was nary location to travel to,' Roe said. 

Another tornado began elsewhere successful Omaha astir 5pm connected Friday and flung planes at Eppley Airfield astir for illustration toys and ripped them to shreds.

The rider terminal wasn't deed by nan tornado but group rushed to large wind shelters until nan twister passed.

A large wind chaser filmed 1 of nan tornadoes crossing road adjacent Omaha, churning up debris from some nan roadworthy and adjacent farmland.

The driver came crossed an overturned large rig that had been flipped by nan powerful tornado which could still beryllium seen churning distant successful nan distance. 

Photos connected societal media showed heavy damaged homes and shredded trees. Video showed homes pinch roofs stripped of tile tiles, successful a agrarian area adjacent Omaha. 

Fewer than 2 twelve group were treated astatine hospitals successful nan Omaha-area, said Dr. Lindsay Huse, wellness head of nan city’s Douglas County Health Department. 

A third, very powerful tornado, developed astir nan aforesaid clip connected Friday and trim a swathe done hundreds of miles of some Nebraska and Iowa.

Minden, Iowa, was deed peculiarly difficult pinch half nan town's buildings damaged, 4 group injured, and nan full organization trim off.

'About 40 homes, possibly 50, were destroyed, state leaks, wires down, a batch of debris. So it's a very vulnerable area, isolated from for nan group that unrecorded here, Pottawattamie County Sheriff's Office main deputy Jeff Theulen said.

'Obviously, they're trying to return attraction of their houses and our thoughts and prayers are pinch them.'

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen and Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds spent Saturday touring nan harm and arranging for assistance for nan tornado-devastated communities. Formal harm assessments are still underway, but nan 2 states scheme to activity national help.