Parts of the South­ern Plains count­ed the in­jured and sur­veyed the dam­age Mon­day af­ter tor­na­does and oth­er pow­er­ful winds swept through, while some Michi­gan res­i­dents faced a fifth con­sec­u­tive day with­out pow­er fol­low­ing last week’s ice storm.

In Cal­i­for­nia, the Na­tion­al Weath­er Ser­vice said a se­ries of win­ter storm sys­tems will con­tin­ue mov­ing in­to the state through Wednes­day af­ter res­i­dents got a brief break from se­vere weath­er Sun­day.

Parts of the North­east that have seen lit­tle snow this win­ter were un­der a win­ter storm warn­ing. And fore­cast­ers warned of con­tin­ued high winds in parts of the Plains and of thun­der­storms and pos­si­ble tor­na­does in the Ohio Val­ley.

A look at the weath­er threats around the U.S.:

TOR­NA­DO CLEANUP, FORE­CAST

Po­lice in Nor­man, Ok­la­homa, re­spond­ed Sun­day night to storm dam­age in parts of the city, about 20 miles (32 kilo­me­ters) south of Ok­la­homa City. Of­fi­cials said there were 12 con­firmed weath­er-re­lat­ed in­juries there, none con­sid­ered crit­i­cal.

Crews can­vassed the dam­aged area look­ing for oth­ers who might be in­jured. Pos­si­ble tor­na­does and wind gusts as high as 90 mph (144 kilo­me­ters) were re­port­ed in Ok­la­homa, with downed trees and pow­er lines, road clo­sures and dam­age to homes around Nor­man and Shawnee.

Frances Tabler, of Nor­man, told KO­CO-TV that she suf­fered a small cut on her head when a storm hit her home, tear­ing off much of its roof and send­ing de­bris fly­ing. She said it was a mir­a­cle her chil­dren weren’t hurt, al­though her daugh­ter was trapped for awhile in a bed­room.

“I could hear the wind com­ing. All of a sud­den all the back win­dows, where the kids bed­rooms are, I could hear them just crash­ing, bust­ing out. And I got up, and then the wind just threw me back, and I’m scream­ing,” Tabler told KO­CO. “It was just like a bliz­zard in the house with all the de­bris fly­ing. I was scream­ing for my kids.”

A tor­na­do touched down Sun­day near Lib­er­al, Kansas, the weath­er ser­vice said, and more than a dozen homes were re­port­ed dam­aged, ac­cord­ing to KSNW-TV. One per­son had mi­nor in­juries, the sta­tion said.

There were re­ports of nine tor­na­does in Kansas, Ok­la­homa and north­west­ern Texas, said Bob Oravec, a lead fore­cast­er for the weath­er ser­vice. Weath­er ser­vice teams planned to sur­vey storm dam­age Mon­day to de­ter­mine the strength of the tor­na­does.

The se­vere weath­er threat re­mained Mon­day, with thun­der­storms ex­pect­ed to pro­duce dam­ag­ing gusts across the Ohio Val­ley, ac­cord­ing to the Storm Pre­dic­tion Cen­ter. At least a few tor­na­does are were pos­si­ble, es­pe­cial­ly across Ohio on Mon­day af­ter­noon, the cen­ter said. The weath­er ser­vice fore­cast strong winds Mon­day in Kansas and Mis­souri, with gusts top­ping 60 mph (96 kph).

NORTH­EAST SNOW­STORM

While not ex­pect­ing a block­buster storm by re­gion­al stan­dards, south­ern New Eng­land braced for what could be the most sig­nif­i­cant snow­fall of what has so far been a mild win­ter.

A win­ter storm warn­ing cov­ered parts of the North­east, in­clud­ing Con­necti­cut, New York, Mass­a­chu­setts, New Jer­sey and Rhode Is­land, with heavy snow fore­cast for Mon­day evening through Tues­day af­ter­noon.

Boston could get 5 inch­es and a messy Tues­day morn­ing com­mute, ac­cord­ing to the weath­er ser­vice. As much as 10 inch­es could fall in west­ern Mass­a­chu­setts, north­west Con­necti­cut and south­ern Ver­mont.

MICHI­GAN ICE STORM

In Michi­gan, crews con­tin­ued to work to re­store elec­tric­i­ty. Leah Thomas, whose home north of De­troit lost pow­er Wednes­day night, fi­nal­ly got her pow­er back late Sun­day af­ter­noon.

Thomas said she feels lucky that she and their 17-year-old son were able to stay at her par­ents’ near­by home, which still had pow­er, while they are in Flori­da.

With her hus­band trav­el­ing out of town, Thomas said it was up to her to recharge the bat­tery to their home’s back­up sump pump Sun­day with her car. She went to mul­ti­ple stores to find a long ca­ble for the task.

Al­though her base­ment didn’t flood dur­ing the out­age, Thomas said Mon­day morn­ing that she lost all the food in her re­frig­er­a­tor, in­clud­ing about $200 worth of pre­pared meals she had in her freez­er. She said she would have moved her food to her par­ents’ freez­er but did not be­cause DTE En­er­gy had re­peat­ed­ly no­ti­fied her that her home’s pow­er would be back on soon.

In­stead, it took near­ly four days for the pow­er to be re­stored.

“We did lose all our food be­cause we didn’t re­al­ize the out­age was go­ing to be so long. DTE kept telling us the pow­er would be back the same day,” Thomas said.

With the lo­cal school dis­trict on mid­win­ter break, she said, some of their neigh­bors have been out of town and will re­turn to find a mess from burst wa­ter pipes and flood­ed base­ments.

“They don’t know what they’re com­ing home to,” she said.

In hard-hit south­east­ern Michi­gan, still reel­ing from the ice storm and high winds, the state’s two main util­i­ties — DTE En­er­gy and Con­sumers En­er­gy — re­port­ed more than 92,000 homes and busi­ness­es with­out pow­er as of late Mon­day morn­ing. More than 63,000 of those were DTE cus­tomers.

CAL­I­FOR­NIA GETS A BREAK

Cal­i­for­nia, mean­while, got a brief break from se­vere weath­er af­ter a pow­er­ful storm a day ear­li­er swelled Los An­ge­les-area rivers to dan­ger­ous lev­els, flood­ed roads and dumped snow at el­e­va­tions as low as about 1,000 feet (300 me­ters). The sun came out briefly Sun­day in greater Los An­ge­les, where res­i­dents emerged to mar­vel at moun­tains to the north and east blan­ket­ed in white.

Sub­ur­ban San­ta Clari­ta, in hills north of Los An­ge­les, re­ceived its first sig­nif­i­cant snow­fall since 1989.

“We went out­side and we let our sons play in the snow,” res­i­dent Ce­sar Tor­res told the San­ta Clari­ta Sig­nal. “We fig­ured, while the snow’s there, might as well make a snow­man out of it.”

By RICK CALLA­HAN and CHRISTO­PHER WE­BER