Oklahomans awakened to power outages, downed trees, cracked windshields, and flooding Wednesday morning after a series of severe thunderstorms developed late Tuesday and continued through the night. Another round of severe thunderstorms developed Wednesday night across parts of the Sooner State. Thunderstorms began around 7 p.m. local time Tuesday in northwest Oklahoma and gradually developed southeastward into the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. The Weather Channel's Tornado Hunt crew had to take evasive action at one point as softball-size hail -- over four inches in diameter -- began to fall on them from a storm along the Canadian-Kingfisher county line northwest of Oklahoma City. Nearby, a spotter reported giant hail estimated to be five inches in diameter. A separate storm, moving northeastward along Interstate 44, then collided with this storm right over the city just before 9 p.m. local time. A brief tornado was reported near the suburb of Piedmont, Okla., as the merger occurred; but most of the damage in the Oklahoma City area came from a prolonged period of damaging winds and hail up to the size of baseballs.
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Oklahoma hailstorm creates power outages.
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