New tornadoes hit Oklahoma - in pictures

A funnel begins to descend from a thundercloud in Meridian. Violent thunderstorms on Friday produced tornadoes in central Oklahoma that killed five people, including a mother and her baby Photograph: Gene Blevins/Reuters

An overturned truck blocks a road off Interstate 40 in El Reno after a tornado moved through the area Photograph: Jim Beckel/AP

Lightning strikes the ground near storm-chasers during a thunderstorm in Cushing Photograph: Gene Blevins/Reuters

Vehicles are trapped by flash flooding on Interstate 235 in Oklahoma City Photograph: Nate Billings/AP

High winds snapped this power pole on Highway 81 just south of El Reno. Tornadoes rolled in from the prairie and slammed Oklahoma City and its suburbs, crumbling cars and tractor-trailers along a major highway Photograph: Chris Machian/AP

A tornado-damaged home is seen along Interstate 40, east of El Reno Photograph: Bill Waugh/Reuters

Lightning strikes in Cushing Photograph: Gene Blevins/Reuters

Belinda Russell hugs Red Cross worker Sue Morey after surveying damage to her home on the Rolling Meadow estate in Broken Arrow Photograph: Tom Gilbert/AP

Large clouds are seen as a tornado passes south of El Reno. Violent thunderstorms spawned tornadoes that menaced Oklahoma City and its already hard-hit suburb of Moore Photograph: Bill Waugh/Reuters

An overturned truck remains on its side on the eastbound lanes of Interstate 40, east of El Reno Photograph: Chris Machian/AP

A tornado touches down in the community of Broken Arrow, blowing out the windows of a newly built school Photograph: Daniel Shaw/Demotix/Corbis

Residents and volunteers clean up the Westmoor neighbourhood in south-west Oklahoma City after hundreds of homes were damaged or destroyed by a tornado Photograph: Jim Beckel/AP