Tornadoes reported amid bad-weather warnings

An intense storm system that forecasters labeled “particularly dangerous” swept through the Southern Plains on Monday, spawning a few tornadoes that caused some damage and a deluge of rain but no reports of injuries.

The National Weather Service had warned that Monday evening could bring perilous weather to a large swath of western Texas, most of Oklahoma and southern Kansas. The storm was expected to move later Monday into western Arkansas.

Some tornadoes were reported early Monday evening, although in sparsely populated areas. Oklahoma residents were on alert as Monday was the sixth anniversary of a tornado in Moore, south of Oklahoma City, that killed 24 people.

Devos has sometimes used her personal email accounts for government business and has not always properly saved the messages, according to an internal investigation released Monday.

The agency’s Office of Inspector General, which was investigating at the request of House Democrats, said it searched the department’s email system and found a “limited” number of messages to or from Devos’ personal accounts. In total, it said there were “fewer than 100” emails linked to four personal accounts.

Most of the emails were from the first six months of 2017, soon after Devos took office, and from a single person, the inquiry found. The person, who was not identified in the report, was writing to recommend candidates for agency jobs.