at 4:16 PM by Tyler Smith

Woman Drowns in Tornado Shelter in Oklahoma

A sad story out of Oklahoma yesterday as a woman died while in her tornado shelter. Several tornado warned storms passed over the Oklahoma City Metro yesterday, but it wasn’t a tornado that took this woman’s life, it was the flooding from numerous storms packing heavy rain. The precipitation analysis from yesterday shows between 6 and 8 inches of rain fell yesterday, most of that within a 5 hour span.

AHPS 24 Hour Precipitation Accumulation
AHPS 24 Hour Precipitation Accumulation

Hopefully this incident will invoke more safety precautions with storm shelter manufacturers to help prevent this from happening again. To read more about the incident, visit the Mashable.

Here are a few tweets regarding the drowning.