The storms overturned trucks and other vehicles along Interstate 40, closing the highway briefly, he said.
You would think these people did not realize Interstate 40 passed them by a few decades ago.
Nearby on Interstate 40, between 20 to 30 cars were stranded due to flooding rains, said Figurskey.
Rising winds were reported in Arizona, where 34 miles of Interstate 40 near Winslow were closed to traffic.
And major highways in Texas, including portions of Interstate 40 and U.S. Highways 60, 87 and 187, were closed because of blizzard conditions.
Part of Interstate 40 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, was shut down in both directions Sunday night after a tornado touched down there, overturning multiple tractor-trailers.
Still, officials reopened Interstate 40 in the Texas Panhandle and New Mexico, and portions of Interstate 70 in western Kansas that had been closed.
The broad storm hit during the evening rush hour, causing havoc on Interstate 40, a major artery connecting suburbs east and west of the city.
State officials said they hoped that stretches of Interstate 40 near the Oklahoma border, which have been closed since Monday morning, would reopen by Tuesday afternoon.
In 2002, 14 people died and 11 more were injured when their cars and trucks plunged into a reservoir after the collapse of an Interstate 40 bridge in Oklahoma.
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The state Medical Examiner's Office spokeswoman Amy Elliott said the death toll had risen to 13 from Friday's EF3 tornado, which charged down a clogged Interstate 40 in the western suburbs.
At least nine people were killed in Friday's storms, including a mother and her baby sucked out of their car as a deadly twister tore its way along a packed Interstate 40 near the town of El Reno, about 30 miles from Oklahoma City.
In Texas, where Amarillo saw 19 inches of snow Monday, fierce winds whipped snow into whiteout conditions that left truck driver and CNN iReporter Phillip Prince -- carrying a load of frozen pizzas -- stranded on Interstate 40 near Groom for nine hours.
Friday's broad storm in Oklahoma hit during the evening rush hour and stuck around, causing havoc on Interstate 40, a major artery connecting suburbs east and west of the city, and dropping so much rain on the area that streets were flooded to a depth of 4 feet.
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The spectacular scene unfolded about 7 p.m. on the north section of the four-lane Interstate 5 bridge near Mount Vernon, about 60 miles north of Seattle and 40 miles south of the Canada border.
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