A wall cloud forms near Interstate 35 and Purcell, Okla. on Thursday, May 30, 2013. At least two tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma and another hit Arkansas on Thursday as a powerful storm system moved through the middle of the country. At least nine injuries were reported.OKLAHOMA CITY - The NCAA postponed the two softball games scheduled Friday night at the Women's College World Series because of severe weather. New times for the games were not immediately announced.
Tennessee had been scheduled to play Washington, with top-seeded Oklahoma facing rival Texas in winners-bracket games starting at 6 CDT. The original plans called for four elimination games to be played today, which also will play into the rescheduling plan, but two of those involve the losers of the games scheduled for Friday.
The teams involved were staying away from Hall of Fame Stadium and sought shelter in a downtown parking garage near their hotels. Washington team spokeswoman Alyssa Olveda said six of the eight teams gathered in the same hotel tunnel and parking garage downtown to ride out the storm.
Representatives from Tennessee, Oklahoma and Texas also said they left their downtown hotels to seek shelter at the Cox Convention Center, which has an underground parking garage that connects through tunnels to downtown Oklahoma City.