OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) An intense storm system moved across the Southern Plains on Monday, spawning tornadoes that caused scattered damage and a deluge of rain but not the particularly dangerous twisters that forecasters had feared.

No injuries were reported.

Late Monday, the National Weather Service reduced the severe threat of violent storms to a small area of southern Oklahoma and northern Texas. But it kept an area stretching from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Wichita Falls, Texas, under tornado watch the level of threat just below a tornado warning until 5 a.m. CDT Tuesday morning

The biggest threat overnight appeared to be flash flooding from torrential rains that accompanied the storms, forecasters said.