get away from windows. get out of your car. it was like something out of a horror movie. i was hoping no one else was headed this way. norman, oklahoma is home to university of oklahoma and the sooners football team, but it s also home to extraordinarily unpredictable and violent weather. that storm once it started really spinning west of norman ramped up pretty quickly, and boom, in a matter of a couple minutes it started spinning much, much faster. that s trouble with a capital t right there. monitoring the storm that day is mike morgan, chief meteorologist if station knfr in oklahoma city. you can really see the wall cloud starting to spin much, much faster. at that point we knew there was going to be a reasonable chance that a tornado was going to set down on the western sides of norman, third largest city in oklahoma, and go right through town. hey, mike. we ve got tower flashes right here. it s going to be about two miles just to the west of campus.
tremendous tornado. quickly on the norman tornado, i have not seen that circulation tighten up, very tightly, but this is now crossing i-35. you see the stream on the right-hand side now, keep a close eye, downtown norman, including the university of oklahoma. absolutely, yeah. so you can see the damage on the right, and this is the damage that came in fro lincoln, county there, a tornado that went through carney. unbelievable. we re focusing oun attention on what s going on right now no norman. looking at the right-hand side there, you can see that s jimmy jimmy s stream right there. thatting loose like he s having what appears to be a wall cloud coming down here. if we can go full, jimmy s shot, and put this on the right-hand side here. i want to focus what s moving into norman. that appears to be a wall cloud that is beginning to develop here. so we are getting a we are continuing to see rotation. right over i-35 here. it looks like we re probably going to see a little mini ar
ologists there, pinpointing all the damage there. keep in mind, we re still not out of the threat. this is going to last until 5 who 457. n 5:45. the storm is moving east roughly 30 miles per hour. much slower than we saw near the oklahoma city area. 100,000 people are in danger of this storm and norman, as chad just said, familiar with the area. these are highly populated areas. right up and down interstate 35. we re still looking at the threat of this storm as we go through. jennifer, uh-huh. i want to listen in to koco. they know that area better than we do. let s listen in for a minute, guys. a roof completely gone. more of a business with aluminum on the siding there. you know, that home was completely destroyed. i m going to say this. this tornado is still significant. is still a tornado warning on, and this thing is headed towards the cushion and drumwright areas of payne county, and on the western sides look at that damage, damon, just ap
up and down. maybe four tornadoes per storm but four parent storms. the parent storm, the parent super creell here is i believe e one that did damage on carney and towards agra and will continue towards the northeast wrapped in rain. i want you to pay attention and look more at the storm to the south and more in new castle and into norman. because this is. now where more people are actually located. many more family, many more homes. it is not an ef-3, 4 tornado going through that area but it s just still developing, still getting stronger. we should go to jennifer with that. jennifer has been talking about the path of this. we have been saying it s going to weaken over time, but it s certainly not the end of this. and, listen, this is what these people are going to wake up to see the sun is about to ge down and now they re standing out looking at their property, or their neighbor s property, whatever it is, and this is just heartbreaking to see.
okay. i cannot tell you how serious this is, and you have to listen to us. if you re anywhere in the oklahoma area. i don t care where you are, pay attention, because you are potentially in imminent danger right now from a super cell of tornadoes. as a matter of fact, there is a new tornado warning out now, our meteorologist jennifer delgado has the latest for you. that s right, don. we just talked about this over the last maybe five minutes ago. now we re seeing, here is norman, oklahoma. we do have a new tornado warning in place, keep in mind, this area is highly populated. this is more than 100,000 people here. what we re going to continue to see as this tornado warning is in place until 5:45. there is our rotation. there is the area that s under the tornado warning. you can see it for yourself. that includes norm s as well as