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THE OKLAHOMAN NEWSOK.COM FROM PAGE 1A THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 20U Storm: Twister came with no warning, residents say LusT "I Oklahoma Lpetail area ijtSmf V. Richard Reed said. She lived in the Tulsa ar -ea most of her life and worked for 27 years at the Tulsa post office, he said. "She would swear at Christmas time she was not going to do a lot," Richard Reed said, "but every child got a toy and every young adult got a gift card. Then she would say she wasn't going to do it again next year." Winds damage Allen In Allen, 100 miles southeast of Oklahoma City, straight -line winds blew over a trailer home with a woman and her two children inside.

They were hospitalized, but their names and medical conditions were not released. Police Chief Eric Hol-comb said he was awakened by the wind about 4:30 a.m. He said he called emergency dispatchers to find out if the storm was capable of producing a tornado. Allen City Administra- Above: Justin Wilson, of Mannford, stands on the remains of the trailer that belonged to his grandmother, Beverly Reed, near Locust Grove. Reed died after a tornado hit her mobile home Wednesday.

Left: Debris from a home and garage are embedded in a tree near Locust Grove. PHOTOS BY JEFF LAUTENBERGER, TULSA WORLD tor Doug Stinson said he had the same concern. "We've got quite a bit of wind damage," Stinson said. "No one expected it." The wind knocked down power lines and tore down large tree limbs, and a tractor-trailer was blown over in a parking lot. Allen Public Schools buildings were damaged and several trees blown down.

Stinson said teachers and custodians were working to get it cleaned up because school was scheduled to start Thursday. FROM PAGE 1A concrete straps right out of the ground" said her son, Richard Reed. Another son, Joe Armstrong, and his wife, Nancy, lived in a nearby mobile home that also was destroyed. "I heard thunder and lightning and was getting my jeans on," Nancy Armstrong said. "The next thing I know I am on the floor, and the computer desk is on top of me." The family gathered at dawn beneath a carport, the only structure untouched at the Armstrongs' residence.

Friends and neighbors stopped by to offer condolences, doughnuts and coffee, and then scrounged for jackets when it began to rain. Once-manicured lawns and a nearby pasture were littered with broken glass, furniture, pieces of insulation and scraps from the mobile homes. The storm hit Reed's neighborhood six miles southeast of Locust Grove about 3:30 a.m. A Tulsa Forecast Office survey team inspected damage in southern Mayes County and determined an EF2 tornado had occurred, the National Weather Service said. The tornado started south of Locust Grove, crossed the far northwest corner of Cherokee County and went back into far southeastern Mayes County.

The tornado had wind speeds estimated at no mph to 130 mph, the weather service reported. Two 50-foot-tall oa trees fell onto the Armstrongs' mobile home. Joe Armstrong rescued his cut and bleeding wif from the mobile home pulling her through a window. "I told him to go check on his mom," Nancy Armstrong said. Approaching Beverl Reed's property in the darkness, the Armstrong could see only the shell of what had been the front porch.

Usually the families head for their storm shelter when bad weather approaches, Nancy Armstrong said. "Normally it takes us three to four seconds to ge there," she said. "We didn't have time fo nothing." Mayes County Emergency Management Director Johnny Janzen said the National Weather Servic did not issue a tornado warning for Mayes Count but rather a severe thunderstorm warning. "With a severe thunderstorm warning, there is always the mention of the possibility of a tornado, Janzen said. But even if one had been issued, there are no tornado sirens for the rural Locust Grove area wher Reed lived, he said.

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