A large, destructive tornado tore through the cities of Barnsdall and Bartlesville in northeastern Oklahoma on Monday night, as dangerous storms swept across the Plains.

The National Weather Service received reports of at least 16 tornadoes, including at least eight in Oklahoma. Severe thunderstorms also swept into Oklahoma City and Tulsa overnight.

A tornado destroyed homes and toppled trees and power lines when it roared through a small Oklahoma town, one of several twisters that erupted in the central United States amid a series of powerful storms that stretched into Tuesday. At least one death was reported. The tornado ripped through the 1,000-person town of Barnsdall, about a 40-minute drive north of Tulsa, on Monday night. At least 30 to 40 homes in the Barnsdall area were damaged, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported, and the state Department of Health reported a nursing...

The Osage County town of Barnsdall took a direct hit from a large tornado Monday night, initial reports indicate. First responders reportedly were going door to door doing search and rescue at homes that had been damaged or destroyed by the storm. The community of approximately 1,300 people about 40 miles northwest of downtown Tulsa was also hard hit by a tornado about one month earlier, on April 1. Monday night's storm moved farther northeast, and the National Weather Service reported damage in Bartlesville near the Hampton Inn at U.S....