On Thursday, communities in several southern Plains will work to clean up after a night of storms hit the area, bringing 51 tornadoes. On Wednesday and early Thursday, the storms hit northern Texas, Nebraska and Kansas. But the Oklahoma City was the most affected area.

At least a dozen people were injured in a trailer park and a 43-year-old woman was killed because of the storm. According to police Sgt. Gary Knight, it seems that the woman, Skylyna Stewart, took shelter in an underground storm shelter and drowned when it was overflowed by floodwater.

The damage was assessed by residents on early Thursday afternoon. Thunderstorms were developing in western Oklahoma; it was expected that they will bring hail and damaging winds to the state. According to meteorologist John Hart of the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, in the meantime, on Friday and Saturday, storms that could lead to more powerful tornadoes could rake the Plains.

According to Hart, "The conditions are right; it's the right time of year. There are just a lot of things that make you think over the next three days there will probably be big tornadoes across the southern Plains". The storms could hit an area covering southern Kansas, western Oklahoma and parts of North Texas on Friday and Saturday.

A state of emergency for 12 central Oklahoma counties has been declared by Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin. It seemed that the hardest hit was at the rural community of Bridge Creek, approximately 30 miles southwest of Oklahoma City and 25 homes were destroyed in the area. According to Forrest Mitchell, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Norman, flooding is a major issue throughout the region.