this is east of oklahoma city heading toward town of shawnee. it s still about 15 miles we ve of shawnee and moving away from norman, away from those populated areas there. another populated area, this storm is very close to the shawnee reservoir. tracking to the east right where that meteorologist is pointing, north of what we consider bethel acres into the town of shawnee. this is a very large storm. it s difficult to see. there are no pictures on television, either affiliate i ve been looking at because it s wrapped in rain right now which means you can t go out there and look at it. all you re going to see is a bunch of rain. you won t see the tornado. you should stay inside. in shawnee and try to get yourself away from windows and between as many walls and the outside as possible, don. chad, i want to show everyone the reason that you re seeing this and that we re on the air now covering this. the intensity of the tornadoes.
edmond, and on toward carney. i believe carney probably took it the worst. that s where we had the highest gate-to-gate shear. the doppler radar seeing different directions. wind coming toward the doppler and away from the doppler at 130, 140 miles per hour right there near the carney area going over the highway that connects carney into wellston. as this storm continued to move toward the east, it died off a little bit. it s reintensifying and we have a new tornado warning for the western suburbs of tulsa. i m very concerned, lake thunderbird, though, on toward bethel acres, that s where the highest degree of danger right now lies. there are three separate super cell s. the one rotating the most is southeast of oklahoma city proper. slightly rural right now, but there are more towns and cities in the way. as this continues to get stronger, don, the storm southeast of oklahoma city is getting stronger, not moving toward oklahoma city, but
hold on before i let you go. chad, they re out of the woods, right? this is past them. that s right. i was very concerned for wichita. i was watching e-mails come in with weather, tornado emergencies, tornado on the ground southwest of the city. large, violent damaging tornado heading into the city. then all of a sudden it really it lifted at the most opportune time to spare wichita. i m really concerned now with the tornado you re watching on the ground, on the screen, with the pink box heading toward bethel acres, going over lake thunderbird. this is east of norman, oklahoma. this is now the storm we need to watch very closely. i do believe there will be a tornado on the ground very, very soon if not not already on the ground heading to maybe shawnee. this is the next storm we need to watch. there s the storm going by wichita. quite fortunate for the people there. as we have it here, because we re on top of this, cnn severe weather center. jennifer delgato with the new
okay. let s listen. talked to some of the folks who were hit hard out here in carney. great, thank you so much, priscil priscilla. you guys be careful up there, okay? thanks. priscilla is up in chandler right now. i m sorry, carney. they are streaming but i can t get their stream. we re going to talk to some people right now. they re getting ready to okay. perfect. hey, jeff, that storm down okay. they were talking to a reporter who was in the area and was giving really some detailed information about the damage that she was seeing there. but, again, i want to go now to someone who has been chasing this storm. has seen the damage. his name is tony lubbock. i hope i have that right, tony. where are you right now? i am southbound out of wellington, kansas, right now, actually to get on some storms that look like they re intensifying south of wichita at the moment. so you re near wellington, kansas. wellington, kansas. so far no damage you are seeing from this super
development after that? yes. it is still possible. that is what is happening right now. keep in mind, 30,000 people are potentially affected by that tornado that you re seeing on that split screen. on what s on parts of oklahoma. now, as we go back, there s another area that we re following. now, it s not just the area near shawnee that we re looking at. we re looking at three cells. i want to point out to you how big the cell is just to the north of shawnee. it s been robbing all that energy from earlier storms we had just really from about the last hour. now we go up toward the north. and des moines. we ve got a storm just to your west that looks really not so good right now. as we go through, the next couple minutes, this storm system moving to the east and the forward speed has been good on this. at times it was up to about 35 to 45 miles per hour. as we track this for you and hopefully our guys in the back, our weather producers can track the storm. in des moines, we re expecting