After deadly tornadoes in Oklahoma, severe storms rage across the Gulf Coast: Live updates

Gov. Kevin Stitt may turn to the Small Business Administration and other philanthropic avenues to help business owners recover from this weekend's destructive tornadoes, officials told reporters Sunday.

Mr. Stitt said the tornadoes destroyed most of the downtown businesses in the town of Sulfur.

“This is definitely the most damage since I’ve been governor,” Mr. Stitt said of Sulfur on Sunday.

According to the National Weather Service, residents dealing with severe tornado damage in central Oklahoma saw persistent thunderstorms overnight into Monday morning.

The storms are expected to continue but remain significantly weaker than what residents saw over the weekend.

Weather in Oklahoma is calming down after a weekend of destructive tornadoes, according to the National Weather Service.

Severe thunderstorms will continue to occur today across much of central Oklahoma, where the tornadoes struck.

However, the potential for tornadoes is “very low” and maximum wind speeds are expected to reach only 60 miles per hour – much weaker than the gusts recorded this weekend.

Brothers Roger Slatten and Royce Slatten were sucked from their home in Elkhorn, Nebraska, by a tornado on Friday evening, they told CNN.

“The moment before we left, we were both trying to go down the stairs,” Roger told CNN. “We kind of looked at each other and for a long time I was sure that was the last time I would ever see my brother – all I could hear was the windows slamming and everyone exploding.

Both brothers are injured but survived the encounter.

“The ground shook a few times under our feet and then we just took off,” Roger continued. “I hit the car head over heels several times, hitting my head on everything I could, slamming my face into the ground and being injured and buried in the rubble.”

Dollar Tree's distribution center in Marietta, Oklahoma, was destroyed over the weekend by the violent tornadoes that hit the state.

Four people are dead and 100 injured across the state.

The deadly tornadoes that ripped through Oklahoma this weekend destroyed a small town of 5,000 people.

The tornadoes killed one person in Sulfur, Oklahoma and damaged nearly all downtown businesses, Gov. Kevin Stitt said Sunday.

“This is definitely the most damage since I’ve been governor,” Mr. Stitt said of Sulfur. Nearly 2,000 people are still without power in Murray County, where Sulfur is located.

Now the residents want to rebuild their lives.

“How do you rebuild it? This is complete devastation,” Kelly Trussell, a lifelong Sulfur resident, told the Associated Press. “It’s crazy, you want to help, but where do you start?”

According to PowerOutage.us, more than 1,800 customers in Murray County, Oklahoma – the county where Sulfur is based – are without power.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt said the tornado damage in Sulfur was the worst he had seen in his career, noting that all downtown businesses were destroyed.

“What I saw in downtown Sulfur is incredible,” he told reporters.