stella area, east of draper lake. begin lakes. dale shawnee, you folks stay alert there. tornado warning for padawamy county. it is tracking towards shawnee obu. so padawanamy county. let s go to mark dillard with an update. yes. mike, still watching for power, due west now on 36. heading south trying to get highway 9 before we can at least get access to look at this thing without having to bail on it so fast. winds are just crazy, michael. give me one second while i get to the intersection here. all right. let s go to adam about the bad
in your storm shelter. this storm is not through. we are still seeing flashes. hunker down. i will try and get out. if this thing continues to cross and goes and on the road there, mike, it ll be catastrophic for several people. we have four lanes, all looking southbound. so stay in your area there, mike. appreciate that. report there from norman with tornado still going through. there is another significant situation in twin lakes. fire lake grand casino on 40 near the county line. far southeastern oklahoma city. far northeastern cleveland county. that the lead storm that produced the storm in south oklahoma city. there is significant warnings. stay alert. there is a tornado warning in effect. for that storm. twin lakes, dale, shawnee, the
what my wind are doing. whipping up from north to south. so i m just passing 50th now. i m sure highway 9 is jammed up with traffic. on alameda heading after the and staying up with a circulation center there, cutting across norman, causing power flashes and likely some damage down in the norman area. so mike, i m going to continue to track this over to shawnee, dale and back to you. okay, appreciate that. so this circulation on the east side of norman, let s go to the storm tracker. you see a hook here and still a hook here. there is norman. here is noble. still a hook. traveling over here toward highway 9 here. there is the casino there. thunder bird casino. it is in that exact area right now traveling to the southeast.
0 tennis ball to softball sized hail also reported along with torrential downpours. i watched this develop a couple hours ago. slowly watched it trek across interstate 40 and going from a rural area storm to a much much more urban area and hearing that oklahoma city itself was evacuated and hotels and airport with everyone going under ground, that is what local meteorologists are advising. they are just saying, you have to get under ground. it is not safe enough with storms this big to just be in an interior room or bathroom. underground is the safest place to be at there moment. dylan, in terms of people watching nationally and warnings under effect, we should say it is 9:04 p.m. on the east coast. 8:04 local time in oklahoma city. you will hear us give times on the air that are specific to anybody who might be in harms way in this central oklahoma storm system. dylan, let me just ask you, talking about a storm system moving so slowly, 20 miles per hour which is slow for a storm sif