Tornado causes extensive damage to small Oklahoma town as powerful storms hit central US

OKLAHOMA CITY — 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 forecasters warned could stretch into the early hours of Tuesday.The tornado ripped through the 1,000-person town of Barnsdall, about a 40-minute drive north of Tulsa, on Monday night.Law enforcement officers and residents surveyed the damage in one neighborhood as…