The slow start to the nation's tornado season came to a blustery end Wednesday when tornadoes hit Arkansas and Oklahoma and left one person dead and several others injured. Tulsa County Sheriff's Capt. Billy McKelvey says a mobile home park near Sand Springs in the Tulsa area was nearly destroyed Wednesday. It's not clear yet whether it was a tornado or straight-line winds that hit the mobile home park. McKelvey says one person was killed there. He said multiple other people were injured, though he couldn't say exactly how many people . Scroll down for videos . Twister: A Tornado is seen in Sand Springs, Oklahoma on Wednesday after a storm system produced at least three tornadoes in Arkansas and Oklahoma on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring several others . A Tornado is seen in Keystone Lake, Oklahoma, on Wednesday after a severe storm swept across the Southern Plains . Funnel cloud: This frame taken from video provided by Brenton Leete shows a funnel cloud in part of a storm on Wednesday in Oklahoma . The tornado: The funnel cloud of a tornado reaches down to the ground as a storm approaches Sand Springs, Oklahoma where one person died on Wednesday night and several others were injured . Tornado victim: First responders work to free a man from a pile of rubble after a round of severe weather hit a trailer park in Sand Springs on Wednesday after a tornado struck the area . In pieces: First responders work to free a tornado victim from the piles of rubbage left behind at a Sand Springs mobile home park . One dead: Debris litters the area after a storm swept through the area and damaged homes in Sand Springs, Oklahoma where the storm killed one person and injured several others . The mobile home park southwest of that town was 'hit very hard,' said Chief Daniel Bradley of the Sand Springs Fire Department. Has said that  24 homes were damaged, some of them rolled over. 'Take cover in a basement or storm shelter now!' the weather service advised those affected by the storm. A severe thunderstorm watch was in effect for the area until late on Wednesday night. Until Tuesday, when a waterspout formed over an Arkansas lake, the U.S. hadn't had a tornado in more than a month. Sirens also went off at Moore, Oklahoma, where 24 people died in a top-of-the-scale EF5 tornado in 2013. Injured: Medics load a man into an ambulance after a round of severe weather hit a trailer park near 145th West Avenue and West 17th Street in Sand Springs, Oklahoma on Wednesday . Decimated: People survey storm damage in Sand Springs, Oklahoma where the storm hit a mobile home particularly hard and killed one . Big storms: Storm clouds gather over downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma as scattered tornadoes passed through the area on Wednesday evening . Running for cover A man runs to his car after a roof fell on to it near First and Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Wednesday . Dark city: The slow start to the nation's tornado season came to a blustery end Wednesday when tornadoes hit downtown Tulsa, Oklaho . Flash: Lightning flashes as a utility crew works on a power line on East 15th Street just west of Sheridan, Oklahoma on Wednesday . Television coverage on Wednesday evening showed a small twister on the ground. Another tornado was reported near the fairgrounds in western Oklahoma City. Storm chasers took to the windy streets to capture photos of the blasts and posted their images to Twitter. The tornado season usually ramps up for parts of the U.S. in March, but weather patterns funneled cold air into much of the country, depriving the atmosphere of the warm, moist air necessary for form bad storms for most of the month. That all changed this week. Southerly winds pushed temperatures into the 70s and 80s across the Ozarks and Southern Plains, while weather fronts churned the air into Wednesday's storms. Meteorologist Jeff Hood in Little Rock said a weak 'waterspout' tornado briefly touched down in Bull Shoals Lake in Marion County in northwest Arkansas on Tuesday night. He said it will likely be classified an EF0 — the weakest tornado with wind speeds of 65 to 85 mph. A 'waterspout' forms over water. Storm chasers: Oklahoma's first severe weather of the Spring kicked off with bang as scattered reports of small tornadoes and large hail came in from all around the state . Dark skies: Severe storms were bearing down on the Tulsa area, ending a quiet start to the nation's tornado season and storm chasers braved the weather to snap photos of the powerful winds . Big storm: The first confirmed tornado touched down in northeastern Oklahoma near Keystone Lake around 5:30 p.m. and storm chasers braved the weather to take some snaps of the skies . The tornado on Tuesday never made it onto land, and there were no reports of damage. 'This will be the 'tornado' that breaks the drought for March,' Greg Carbin, warning coordination meteorologist for the Storm Prediction Center, said Wednesday. Before this week, only about two-dozen twisters had been recorded this year during a period when about 120 are typical. The last time the U.S. had no twisters in March was nearly 50 years ago, according to figures from the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma. The National Weather Service called the storm 'extremely dangerous.' 'You are in a life threatening situation. Flying debris will be deadly to those caught without shelter. Mobile Homes will be destroyed. Considerable damage to homes, businesses and vehicles is likely and complete destruction possible,' said a Google weather update posted just minutes ago. Severe weather warnings: Oklahoma's first severe weather of the Spring kicked off with bang as scattered reports of small tornadoes and large hail came in from all around the state . Storms: A cluster or line of thunderstorms should form from eastern Oklahoma into western/northern Arkansas, southern/eastern Missouri, far southern Illinois and western Kentucky . A second storm passed through the city a half-hour later, prompting another tornado warning. News 9 reported on a few 'weak' and not very life-threatening tornadoes earlier in the evening. The Storm Prediction Center had warned that a clash of warm and cooler air masses could lead to violent storms. It predicted mostly hail and high winds, but said tornadoes couldn't be ruled out. Tornadoes were also reported in the Ozark Mountains of northwestern Arkansas. No injuries were reported there, either. News 9 reports that hail the size of baseballs and golf balls have been common in many of the communities that the storms have moved through. Over 7,000 homes are without power.
One dead and another critically injured in Sand Springs mobile home park that was 'hit very hard'
Tornado warnings were issued and sirens blared for a time on Wednesday night in Tulsa, Oklahoma as a pair of storms moved across the area . The National Weather Service called the storm 'extremely dangerous'
'You are in a life threatening situation. Flying debris will be deadly to those caught without shelter,' said Google weather . Over 7,000 homes are without power . News 9 reports that hail the size of baseballs and golf balls have been common in many of the communities that the storms have moved through .