after i hit my head, i was landing on top of the dog and i could hear her just will perfecting and i cannot believe we actually survived this thing. while you re hearing this young woman talk there. she s lucky to have found her dog. many families have lost so much more. looking at the oklahoma here, a great veteran yabl newspaper, a great headline sometimes does say it all. worse than may 3rd. one family lucky to be reunite here on the cover. many not. this is what they call an emergent situation when it comes to weather catastrophes of this kind. that s simply means, they just don t know, you re going to hear things throughout the day. you never want to go too far down the road of speculation in situations that are developing. but be especially careful with what you allow yourself to absorb today. this is the worst of all the different things that a tornado can bring to a community and nothing destroys like a tornado. hurricanes are terrible. fires terrible. but there s something
through. this path was 22 miles long. as this formed, right before 3:00 p.m., it was in a nondensely-populated area. then, it went right over new cakastcas castle. as it became massive, it exploded. and the densely-populated is where we saw this thing intensified. we can see now that we re talking about minimum, 160-mile-per-hour winds, potentially as high as 200 miles per hour. we started to see this impressive damage. the catastrophic damage. as the thing started to dissipate is when it started to go, once again, into areas that were not as densely populated. really, the timing is very unfortunate in a path like this. let s take you out wider and talk about this. very common, now, it seems in this area, look at the three tracks that have gone into this area. one of the ones everyone keeps talking about is may 3rd, 1999. one of the biggest differences i
wanted to point out was the lead time. here, by the time we saw the tornado warning when it touched in new castle, was a 13-minute warning. they still had a long path before it went into moore. when you put it all together. you compare that to may 3rd, 1999, look how much they had. they had 40 minutes, hour and a half warning time before it hit the area. that s a reason a lot of people did leave. this is not going to be survivable. and many people were able to escape. that being the main difference there. thank you for that. we re going to continue to check in with you to see who is in the path today. strangers helping strangers and neighbors helping neighbors. we have continued coverage of the deadly oklahoma tornado aftermath. stay with us. one of the guys pulled a teacher out.
example of parents that got really lucky. they went there. they found their children. they were crouched in the storm position to wait through the storm. that s how they found their children. but you know, you also find people who are still looking. and that s the tough part. they have that lost look in their eyes, which is one of the most devastating parts of this. another thing people talk about so much. they talk about 1999. may 3rd, 1999. how does this experience affect what s going on here right now? interesting because that was a big storm. incredible storm. came through here. and what you can tell, people had a plan. people know how to respond to these things. the schools have a plan. the children know what to do when a storm like that comes through. they had about a 16-minute leave time before this storm. typically it s about 13 minutes. they had some time to prepare. but a storm like this, you can only do so much. and here we are, now, with the