texas until 11:00 at night. if we go to the graphic, you can see where we are talking about areas in red. for oklahoma, as well as into areas like kansas, these are the areas that are really going to be our greatest concern even in that northeastern or i should say northwestern part of missouri we are talking st. joseph, kansas city, all these areas are very highly populated so you want to make sure you have that storm shelter or a basement, get to the lowest part of your home. highly populated right here in this edmond, oklahoma. as we look at these images, when you saw a tighter shot of the funnel cloud, you also saw debris flying in the air. we heard the anchor and reporter talking about how it already passed the 15th street area over to i-35 making its way to lake arcadi arcadia. then in the tight u you saw pieces of what appear to be debris. it is clearly causing some damage. we can see that debris at times on the radar. that s an indication of how strong these storms can be
at 5:33 central time. is it 4:38? we still have about another hour, then we still have that tornado warning in place until 4:45. kfor, which is providing a lot of these images there on the right of the screen. is also reporting these tornado watches remain at least in effect in central and the eastern portion of oklahoma, and that there remains a severe threat right into monday. so while i know we ve been reporting this watch from minnesota to texas in place until about 11:00 p.m., folks here in this area in edmond, oklahoma and in that general vicinity are really preparing themselves for the long haul over the evening, into monday. that s right. absolutely. we re going to continue, as i said, for this threat to spread to areas, including more populated areas like kansas city, as well as into st. louis, even potentially into chicago. now as we go back over to our graphics and we focus a bit more, we talked so much about
chopper shot kfor. we ve seen tornadoes, at least one tornado touch down in each of the cities of edmond in arcadia, in luther and now in wellston, oklahoma, and an extraordinary sight, not only were we seeing the flashing from power lines that were being hit, but, according to this chopper reporter, he counted about two to three houses that were simply decimated by this tornado, and, again, now you re seeing a more defined view of this funnel cloud, and you see the sparks there, power line, and it hitting anything in its path. this is a monster of the storm system. we ve boon hearing from jennifer delgado who said millionless be affected by this storm system, because it is spanning from texas all wait to minnesota. over the next set of hours. up until at least 11:00 p.m. tonight and possibly overnight. folks in nearby kansas are warning residents there to expect a lot more severe weather, even into monday. but right now, again,
tornado warning has been lifted for that area as we look at edmond, oklahoma? yeah, absolutely. for kansas. we talked about this earlier where the national weather service employees were located in wichita. basically they saw this storm coming through. they knew that this was a large and dangerous tornado. they had to basically give up their duties and turn them over to topeka because they had this tornado coming through. they had to get underground and they had to take shelter because this was a deadly tornado and they were expecting possibly widespread destruction. again you are looking at this tornado and you are looking at the down draft coming down there. what you re looking at as we go back over to our radar, we are tracking this for you. this again we are talking about that very classic signature. you continue to see more of these tvss, and i think we ll see more live video out of edmond of these tornadoes lowering. but want to point out as we track this for you you, we talk
doesn t that look like a funnel of some sort that is forming. this is oklahoma. norman, oklahoma. edmond, oklahoma. sorry. let s listen in to kfor. this is going to be about one mile to a mile and a half just west of i-35 at about 15th street. definite power flashes. you kind of still see the funnel right there. it might be difficult to pick up but it is moving pretty much straight east, northeast and just more power flashes right there. that is a tornado confirmed on the ground producing damage in edmond between 15th and 33rd and bryant avenues right now. it is on the ground. let s go back to reed timer in dominator 4. look at that. tornado on the ground in edmond right now. cone shaped ground on the ground in edmond. it s crossing bryant avenue right now. just north of 33rd and just south of 15th. it is on the ground right now. it is getting larger. it is getting larger.