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Potentially deadly tornadoes continued to strike the country's midsection Saturday, with a slow-moving tornado touching down in Oklahoma and causing damage to barns in the rural northwestern area of the state.A helicopter crew for KWTV said the tornado was about a mile and a half away from a farmhouse and described as "serious," as the funnel could be seen sucking up dirt and debris.The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for Kingfisher County and neighboring Garfield County as the storm moved into the area from the west.The latest tornado followed news from the Kansas Adjutant General's Department that two people died when a severe storm system tore through the state with more than a dozen tornadoes Friday.The man and woman, from Colorado, were found Saturday in a car in a field 13 miles east of Pratt in south central Kansas.At least 17 tornadoes ripped through western and central Kansas on Friday. At least six people were injured and dozens of homes were damaged or destroyed.Meanwhile in Colorado, where a large tornado devastated the northern farm town of Windsor, residents were expected to return to their homes in an area of town that officials had earlier deemed unsafe following Thursday's twister.Natural gas leaks and the threat of explosions had kept hundreds of residents from their homes on Friday.Officials were meeting with residents to plan their return, incident management team spokesman Dan Hatlestad said. "With no power, it may be an unpleasant place to live, but it's up to the homeowners," Hatlestad said.The tornado, with wind speeds between 111 mph to 165 mph, tore through a 35-mile stretch of northern Colorado, killing one person and injuring dozens. It tipped 15 rail cars off the tracks in Windsor, about 70 miles north of Denver.In Kansas, the weather service sent out survey teams Saturday morning to determine the size of the twisters. Ed Berry, science operations officer in the Dodge City office, said many of the twisters appear to be significant in size.In Stafford County, at least seven homes suffered major damage, along with damage to several other structures, power lines and trees, Watson said Saturday.A man in Gove County suffered minor injuries after his car was blown across Interstate 70 into a ditch, according to George Lies, emergency management director for Logan and Gove Counties.Lies said two tornadoes hit in Gove County, with at least a dozen homes sustaining major damage.One twister was on the ground south of Quinter, went back into the clouds as it went over the town, then dropped back down on the other side, damaging four rural houses.Portions of Kansas also have been hit hard by flooding, with as much as 8 inches of rain falling in a 48-hour period, according to Chris Foltz, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Goodland.
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