At least 5 dead after dangerous flooding and storms hit Oklahoma

CNN Severe weather in Oklahoma over the weekend has left at least five people dead including a -year-old boy a -year-old girl and their mothers after their vehicles were swept away by floodwaters leaders say Police in Moore about miles south of Oklahoma City published dozens of high-water incidents Sunday morning describing the severe storms as a historical weather event On Saturday police commented they responded to more than a dozen calls for help from residents whose vehicles were trapped in high water One of the Sunday incidents involved a mother and son whose bus was washed into a creek and later wedged against a drainage pipe police narrated CNN affiliate KOCO The bus was deduced to be carrying a family of three police stated A third person was able to escape and was taken to the hospital in serious condition The woman and child were missing when rescuers reached the automobile They were located after an extensive search by Moore police and neighboring agencies The principal of Apple Creek Elementary in Moore Oklahoma revealed the -year-old boy was a participant there It is with profound sadness that I share the heartbreaking news that one of our sixth-grade students Rivers Bond and his mother tragically passed away during the severe flooding last night Rachel McNear disclosed in a letter addressed to parents provided to KOCO The mother has been identified as -year-old Erika Lott the Moore Police Department noted on Facebook A father and son in a separate automobile that was swept away around the same time also managed to escape police described KOCO Their motorcycle briefly ended up on top of the family of three s bicycle according to KOCO Near Leonard Oklahoma about miles southeast of Tulsa a -year-old woman and her -year-old daughter were swept away by floodwaters Sunday executives disclosed on social media Government discovered the woman s body Monday morning and the daughter was unveiled later in the afternoon according to the Tulsa County Sheriff s Office Around p m Sunday the Bixby Fire Department responded to reports of an SUV caught in rushing water on private property The father and one child escaped but the woman and her younger daughter were dragged away according to Wagoner County Urgency Management Water levels were significantly higher than we ve seen in new years police notified KOCO Flooding in the area has receded but police warned of large debris remaining on roads Farther south in Spaulding Oklahoma a tornado struck at around p m Saturday injuring two people according to Hughes County Urgency Management The storm destroyed two homes and several nearby structures One of the injured later died an official validated Sunday Spaulding is around miles east of Norman Oklahoma The dangerous floodwaters in central Oklahoma also damaged at least homes according to a release from Oklahoma State Emergency Operations Center The flooding is part of severe weather that struck multiple states in the South this past weekend Storms unleashed multiple tornadoes and dumped hail bigger than baseballs in parts of the southern Plains A inadequate thunderstorms could deliver gusty winds and hail in the Southeast and Ohio Valley on Monday but will not be nearly as strong as this weekend s storms