lart wedge tornado. hail and tornado making its way across the country. our jennifer delgado all over it. cnn as well. new pictures, being told by producers, getting it new pictures in. stand by. we ll get them back. there we go. new pictures of damage, jennifer. we saw the video earlier of some of the power lines popping. and we saw that debris and talked about this earlier. how we could see debris showing up on radar. proof that these storms moved through and potentially could cause this same teiype of damag in norman, oklahoma. not sure that was out of, don. maybe you have more information on the damage of the homes. this is a reality that happens through tornado alley and we saw scenes and reports like this earlier coming out of kansas as well. this is going to continue i. would venture to guess i don t know exactly. but i venture to guess where we saw the tornado earlier. oklahoma city. yeah. from our affiliate, kfor near
let s go to the tracker. you re under a tornado warning in cleveland and maclaine county. here s new castle. there s gullsby, the ou campus, downtown norman. this is ping-pong-ball-sized hail and larger. the hook is coming around here. it appears to be on the northern side of highway 9. if it continues its motion, it will come directly into norman. the circulation could even go as far north as the southern half of moore. the southern half of moore. and keep in mind, the big hail is on the southern side of that mesocyclone track for the most part. obviously and definitely still a very developing situation down south. i would have one door on your safe spot, both in all of south moore and all of norman. you know, visibility hopefully will stay good so we ll be able to see it, looking at emily s live stream, but have one hand
actually developed and touched down, a bunch of momentum of wind came around the south side of it. circulation might be trying to reform up here on the northern side of norman. as it did that, it pulled the tornado about a mile to the north. turns out it went right through downtown norman. sergeant scott doesn t realize it, but he is driving right toward the eye of the storm. as he s driving you can hear mike morgan giving the weather report on radio station kg-103. you got to get out of your car. you got to get in the ditch. it could roll the car and tumble it for a long ways. you know, you think you re safe in your car. it s basically sheet metal and steel. it s a frame. but think about it. it s also a glass cage. the longer sergeant scott drives through the storm, the more danger he s in. when the wind speeds begin to approach 90 to 100 miles per hour, the ability for that tornado to roll that car
really spinning about ten miles west of norman ramped up pretty quickly, and boom, within a matter of minutes, it started spinning much, much faster. that s trouble with a capital t right there. this is hail right here. 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. i ve got it. we ve got power flashes right here. it s going to be about two miles just to the west of campus. up in his news chopper, pilot john welsh can see the storm approaching from the west. just 2 1/2 miles from the university of oklahoma. and you see a lot of people out on the streets, so my thought was, you know, these guys need to get no cover and get out of the way. captain david
to get covered and out of the way. captain david tysher is out in the city when the sudden appearance of a tornado takes us by surprise. we did have a little bit of a warning, but not a whole lot. when the storm first hits officers are told to return to the station. this is normally a rallying device incase communications go down. but the heavy rain makes returning to the station much more difficult. we could see the funnel cloud lowering, and we saw the power flashes, and then 30 seconds later the rain just kind of wrapped in around it and it was just like somebody just pulled the curtains and set them down. those are the ones that can be especially dangerous. because a lot of folks are in the rain. they re thinking maybe they re not going to be hit by the tornado, and then here it comes in the rain. sergeant robert scott is one of the officers caught in the storm. in this video captured on his dashboard camera sergeant scott is making his way back to the station as th