Around 7:15 - 7:30pm this Tuesday evening- a large and "violent" tornado- according to the NWS- struck Lone Grove and parts of northwest Ardmore-OK..
Lone Grove is a city of about 5000 people- located 7 miles west of Ardmore-OK in far southern Oklahoma.
The tornado was reported to be at least one-half mile wide and a damage track of at least a quarter-mile wide has been reported by local media being monitored here.
"A church and a UPS Store building" is among structures damaged. The tornado also moved along Interstate 35 for a distance. Power was out in the towns of Gene Autry and Springer.
The Lone Grove police chief told KXII-TV12 in Sherman-TX there are injuries and that at least one woman was reportedly trapped under an overturned mobile home. She was freed by rescuers but her injuries were unknown.
At 9:13pm- a medical spokeman from the Southern Oklahoma Ambulance Service told KXII-TV there were 15 injuries and one fatality confirmed and a possible second death in and around Lone Grove.
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