At least five people have died as a result of some of the dozens of tornadoes that have swept across the central US Great Plains, authorities said Sunday.

After the 78 tornadoes recorded on Friday, mainly in the states of Iowa and Nebraska, another 35 were counted yesterday Saturday in northern Texas and Missouri, according to the American National Weather Service (NWS).

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt confirmed the death of four people in his state on Sunday.

A woman was killed in the small town of Sulphur, which was hit hard, the governor said during a press conference.

Photos and videos uploaded to social media sites show dozens of homes completely destroyed and vehicles reduced to shapeless masses of metal.

More than a hundred kilometers away, in Holdenville, at least two other people died, according to the disaster management agency. Local media reported that one of the victims was a four-month-old infant.

Debris cleanup operations continued yesterday Sunday.

A fourth person died on a freeway in Marietta, in the same state. Footage broadcast by local media shows two trucks with trailers overturned and a warehouse cut in two.

Governor Stitt declared a 30-day state of emergency in Oklahoma.

Heavy rain also lashed many communities and emergency warnings remained in place yesterday, including for flash flooding, hail and tornadoes.

In Iowa, a man succumbed to his injuries at a hospital where he was being treated, his family told local TV station KETV NewsWatch 7 (owned by the ABC News network), bringing the death toll to five.

More than 25,000 households were without power in Texas and 19,000-plus in Oklahoma as of noon yesterday, according to the PowerOutage website.

Tornadoes, a spectacular and difficult to predict meteorological phenomenon, are common in the US, especially in the central and southern parts of the country.

However, it is extremely rare for strong tornadoes to follow each other, according to meteorologists.