police officer driving to his station finds himself in the middle of a heavy storm with a tornado bearing down. 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 head 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
. police officer driving to his station finds himself in the middle of a heavy storm with a tornado bearing down. 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 head 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 sfafaster.
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. just to the west of the norman campus. up in his news chopper pilot wells can see the storm approaching from the west. it s two and a half miles for the university of oklahoma. and you know, you see a lot of people out on the streets. so my thought is these guys need
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. just to the west of the norman campus. up in his news chopper pilot wells can see the storm approachg from the west. it s two and a half miles for the university of oklahoma. and you know, you see a lot of feel o people out on the streets. so my thought is these guys need 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 coul
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 the weather gets progressively worse. his thought process was to go to the police department here because he felt like he was getting away from the storm. turns out when the tornado actually developed and touched down, a bunch of momentum of wind came around the south side of it. circulation migtd ht be tryi to reform here on the upper side of norman. as it did that it pulled the tornado about a mile to this the north. turns out it went right through downtown norman.