i want to switch gears because st. louis now to the north of the city and south of the city both under tornado warnings. another one of our major cities in the country under tornado warnings at this point. shepard: and we will have live pictures out of there in just a few moments. also just got this from kokc radio and police in moore, oklahoma are now reporting cars have been overturned and power lines are down. it was last monday that moore got a direct hit and you all know the pictures and you know the outcome there. tonight, moore, the police are reporting cars overturned and power lines down. that is not to say that they he are confident that a tornado has hit there but the straightline winds, rick, we have been hearing reports in fact the latest one i got from norman from the national weather service was to expect 80 to 95-mile an hour winds. that will overturn a car are. certainly will. obviously some of that damage i think you are seeing today are rot reports you are star
nd took out neighborhoods. thunderstormally hours into the storm we would have the reports from ambulances, from emergency medical responders. from fire departments, police departments, community centers, schools and churches and malls. and we don t have that. at least at this point that is encouraging. that is encouraging. and i just had a phone call a second ago from my emergency management director and he said i m monitoring all of the social media sites and emergency command center is all over different agencies and we are not the getting requests for emergency aid at this particular moment. now, the storms have hit i don t know how many communities, maybe seven or eight communities in the central part of the oklahoma area. it may be slow coming in other than we knew we had problems on the highways and we know we have power outages. there certainly were a lot of spinning and looking like the clouds could drop a tornado. we saw a tuna looked like they
tornadoes and they were some four and a half miles wide. a mile wide south of reno and utah. wide and devastating in in oklahoma city metro smaller but i have not been able to visually see them or see the damage. smaller because of the rain wrapped make them not impossible to be large but smaller bt can still do significant damage. what are you seeing out on the roads right now? we have been seeing the images of the cars stuck on the interstaáes. as you are out there right now i know you have a ton of traffic around you. still seeing people stuck out there in harm s way? yes, at tinker air base base, traffic is backed up, i had to go down the road to escape the tornado coming out of tinker. áhe traffic is backed up five to eight miles. tornado coming down just to the east. look at the live picture right now. you can see just the situation
you the current location. i-40 toward meek cloud and tracking towards shawnee. i would tell the peple in shaw you knee to take cover. the rein wrapped tornado continues. just south of mccloud on i-40 and shawnee is just ahead of me. just off to the northwest of shawnee. about five miles. the tornadoic storm is tracking towards shawnee and there is a tornado developing now on the south side of i-40. it is tracking right towards shawnee. it will be in shaw you knee in probably 9 to 10 minutes. i m seeing that same thing on the radar in the direction of this. shawnee took a direct hit a week ago sunday the day before the moore, oklahoma tornado and caused extensive damage and two fatalities in the area and now they are back in the direct path of this again. the storms seem to be right now 4ñ area and moving to the south but they are training and moving in the southward
and oklahoma city was the focus of the world for hours on end and now as we approach 9:00 in the central time zone, this separate system in and around st. louis is causing serious problems. radar showing hundred mile an hour winds in western madison county not the long ago, whether that is a tornado on the ground or not we can t know yet. but we straightline winds can become that severe or that strong in this sort of a storm event. i m reading information from people all over including monitoring the different television stations and trusted outlet there s and sounds like there is damage. i m not sure how widespread. i know there have been injuries as well and a people are sheltering in place in basements and st. louis count operation of emergency management says that the tornado one of the tornadoes on the ground is classified as large and extremely dangerous. and rick, for the st. louis area especially east across the