HOUSTON — Severe thunderstorms struck parts of Texas and Oklahoma on Monday evening, producing short-lived tornadoes — including stunning images of side-by-side twisters in rural Oklahoma — but as of early Tuesday the region appeared to have been largely spared from violent weather that had been feared by forecasters.

The warning by forecasters, issued by the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., predicted a “major severe weather outbreak” on Monday over parts of northwest Texas and western and central Oklahoma, including a series of “potentially long-track and violent” tornadoes.

By early Monday evening, scattered tornadoes briefly touched down in largely rural areas in southwest and north-central Oklahoma, causing some damage but no reported injuries or fatalities. The new concern became severe flooding, as a long line of sluggish storms moved east across the state and dumped heavy rainfall.

In the north-central part of the state, local television crews captured images of two twin tornadoes in a rural region near the small town of Crescent. In the southwestern corner of the state near the Texas border, a tornado appeared to strike some homes near Mangum, a town of 3,000 more than 150 miles from Oklahoma City.