doesn t look like it s lifting up soon. let s go back i ll come around to the west. it s at 177. sitting on the northern sides of shawnee. right now is where the debris ball is currently located on the northern side of shawnee. emily sutton joins us live. it s going to hit the shawnee mall. right now, who s up, hank? the shawnee mall is going to get hit, coming up here in less than a minute. in less than a minute, it s on i-40, the shawnee mall is going to get hit in less than one minute s time. let s take the chopper, take the chopper. john, can you push into that a little bit? can you push into that a little bit? we ll zoom in for you. it s going to hit the shawnee mall, like right now. it s absolutely, positively hitting the shawnee mall right now. okay, it may go half a mile north or south, but i m telling you right now, the debris ball is over the shawnee mall on i-40 right now. this is a live picture.
we re following breaking news out of eastern oklahoma where a large funnel cloud has been spotted approaching a large mall. in a town called shawnee. let s join our affiliate in progress. flashes in there. we re seeing some debris floating up. if you re in this area, you need to be underground. this is going to be, i don t know, probably just from my vantage point, about two miles, three miles east of the 3-w exit on i-40, so it s going to be just the west of the college there. if you re on track i-40, right there, you have walmart, lowe s, all those stores, you re definitely going to need to evacuate the area, come south. i m right now just south of the shawnee airport, and everything is going to track north of here. but if you got friends or family in there, listen to us on the radio. definitely take this precaution and get underground, get in a safe area because it s coming, and from our vantage point, it
that comes off i-40 to the southeast. from our vantage point right here, it s sucking all that water in there, which makes it white. we re trying to adjust our iris so we can depict the blacks the shot here. so they can give you the shape here. you know, it s definitely right there. and it still looks like it s tracking to the northeast. appreciate that. it is on the ground. it s heading to eastbound i-40. numerous cars flipped, blown over. extensive damage in northwest shawnee. reed joins us live. what do you have? we re just to the north side of shawnee. i would estimate that tornado is about three miles northwest of shawnee. there s a new tornado warning
now two miles west of shawnee with a new circulation. that one still just getting going. to the northwest, tornado in progress. large tornado in the rain now. northwest shawnee. but it crossed i-40 and caused extensive damage. i can confirm what we re talking about. there is another circulation that your west. it s going to be to the east. it s a strong circulation. there might be another rotation there. got it. there it is. let s go to reed. you say you got it. what you got? you see that white area right there? yes. west end of that, that s the west end of the large tornado. still in there. as we go north, we should get a better view of it.