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Powerful storms across U.S. bring rage of threats from fires to blizzard conditions

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75% Informative

Storms tore roofs off an apartment building and a nursing home in a small town in Oklahoma .

Power outages are climbing Tuesday morning in Texas , Louisiana and Mississippi .

Storms that swept through Texas and Oklahoma early Tuesday morning brought high winds and rain, overturning tractor-trailers and damaging roofs.

The Central Plains and Midwest are bracing for blizzard conditions that could “make travel treacherous and potentially life-threatening”.

Associated Press writers Sean Murphy in Oklahoma City ; Sara Cline in Baton Rouge , Louisiana ; Juan Lozano in Houston ; Julio Cortez in Irving , Texas ; Haya Panjwani in Washington , D.C. ; and Susan Montoya Bryan in Albuquerque , New Mexico , contributed. Support Provided By: Learn more Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else..

VR Score

85

Informative language

89

Neutral language

68

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

51

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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no external sources

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