more on what s being called a tornado emergency in wichita, kansas. people are being urged as a result of that kind of ominous cloud activity that you re seeing in this screen. they re being urged to go underground, get to the basements, take cover, period. now this image right here is in oklahoma. we understand that entire midsection of the country really is under the threat of this incredible system that s making its way. let s listen in right now to what s being said on kfor. so you are west-northwest of downtown edmond. what direction are you looking for that wall cloud? i m looking due south from my position in between western and santa fe, 2 1/2 miles west-northwest of edmond, 192nd street northwest. it turns into danforth road further east.
reid, we tresh that. reid is highlighting this rapid circulation here. weather service has just reissued the tornado warning. has just reissued the tornado warning for northern oklahoma county and in particular edmond. low rapidly rotating wall cloud to his south. he s just west of downtown edmond looking down to his south. let s go back to john welsh and bob moore, chopper 4. right now let me tell you where we re at. i m just over basically frontier city, we re shooting back to the west. the feeder band we ve been talking about just continuing to get lower and lower. that s it. we ll pan back to the right, then sucking all that energy up and it is dropping it out right there. right look right on the left of your screen. that is definitely where there is a lot of rotation. we have it is right behind that rain. we got some rain right in front of it. as you see right there on your screen that is definitely some rotation, some clouds and
this is the time of the year that we start to see this. you can also start to see more of the rotational lowering of the cloud as we go on. of course this is certainly a life threatening situation across parts of edmond. we re going to continue to see things like this happening through parts of oklahoma as well as kansas as we go through really about the next couple hours. looks like the tornado on the ground. we do have the warning. it is in place until 4:45. this is in that northern part of oklahoma city. as we take you over to our graphic here we see the video. now we want to help you visualize what s happening on the radar. here is edmond. there s our rotation. looks like we have two signatures and that s what we call our tvs. we are going to track this storm for you so you can get an idea where this storm is headed and the time. there is the red signature there, tvs. this is at 5:24. this is eastern time. let s track this for you. we put this into motion. hopefully our producers b
that s bad because sometimes you get that air evacuating and that can be even more dangerous when you get under these overpasses. incredible. again, we are talking about this storm as we heard the local reporters there on the ground talking about it making its way toward i-35 there at edmond, oklahoma, as well as not only just touching down in that city of edmond, oklahoma but threatening arcadia as well and luther not far off. i think you had mentioned, jennifer, that maybe luther might be in the crosshairs in under an hour or so from now? yeah. actually we re trying to pull that back up. i think we said 5:19. you can see those clouds lowering. you see the rain shaft over there. when we see these tornadoes coming through and they can be so large, sometimes they can be masked by the rain. we talk about rain-wrapped tornado. we re hopefully going to pull up the track for you but until we do we ll go back over to our weather graphics. we talked about some of the areas that are going
helicopter this is so dangerous out there for these people covering these storms. we were looking at something earlier. all these storm spotters are all in place across parts of oklahoma, as well as kansas and they are really putting their lives at risk but they know how to follow these storms and get out of the way. even in this area, this tornado alley right there. there is our debris right there. you can see it kicking up. that s a strong cone shaped tornado and that s i can t tell exactly where that s coming out of. that s out of edmond as well. gets confusing out of oklahoma and kansas at these hours. right now, edmond, oklahoma. moving into the area east of i-35 towards air depot. in a treated area, i don t know. i know there are some houses over there but it is moving looks pretty much due east. i m actually looking at the radar right now and not only are we getting hail but we re seeing this tornado kicking up debris. if you live in arcadia you need