this roof tress, depletely goco gone. 140 mile-an-hour winds, taking the top of trees and spinning them completely off. this is what we talk about, going through carney and back towards the southwest where it came from. moving to the northeast, towards agra. if you re in the agra area, this is going to be a difficult storm to see. i do not walton you out there looking for the storm. it is wrapped in rain. you won t be able to see it. let me stop you. i just got hearing from our affiliates. this is wellston. sorry, chad, sorry about that. the same parent cell. we talked about this tornado system we had in texas on on wednesday. and there were 16 tornadoes that s pretty amazing. four storms skipping tornadoes
which is where the storm prediction center is and these warnings or super cell we were watching in northern oklahoma, north of oklahoma city, and headed into kansas, southeast michigan way, and all the way up to parts of iowa, to minnesota, around minneapolis. it is a wide event affecting 25 million people in the path of the storms, very widespread from texas, really, to the great lakes with a concentrated area where we could see the very large devastating tornadoes which we have seen in and around the oklahoma city area, wichita, early today, unfortunately, joplin, you are if line for potentially dangerous storm as well as kansas and this storm is going to move eastward tomorrow, some of the same areas could be hard hit stretching across the eastern great lakes and the midwest so this is ongoing with reports of damage in and around
have, may not be very popular. may be open area, but what we re seeing, 519 to 538, potential, this super cell moving through carney as well as parkland as well as into kendrick. let s hop over to some more weather science. this is going to kind of bore you. what we re looking at, far right screen, bottom left. base velocity. looking at storm relative velocity. here is our tv, tornado vortex signature there there is our inflow there. you can better see the development of that storm as well. again, there s luther, there s wellston, carney, yes, and you want to be on the lookout as well and, of course, meridian, hit with heavy rain. also reports of hail being 1.5 inches. jennifer, stand by. i ll need your help with this, but i want to tell our viewers. you are watching this unfold as we are. we re watching this with you and learning new information with you. we re going to rely a lot on our
heather: you would think they would because this is an area known to expense tornadoes and storms like this. so it is not unusual for them as we watch the lightning pop as this storm moves through, again, this is reportedly the third confirmed tornado in oklahoma this evening in just a very brief amount of time. the first one we watched live as it came down in edmund, oklahoma, and that was early this afternoon. now, we are being told that did cause damage but no injuries were reported inned in edmund oklahoma. one home had the second floor ripped off. gregg: sharon watson joined us on the phone with the kansas emergency management, the spokesperson. where, precisely, are you in what do you see? what are you expensing? guest: i am in kansas city,
toward carney, oklahoma, this is footage we have watched of the storm it was ef4 or ef5. janice: i don t trust the sources. it will take some time to get the assessment going. when you talk about ef4 or ef5, that is what we saw in dallas, and ef5 was in joplin, missouri, almost two years ago to the day. cities are leveled. homes are leveled. there is nothing left. we do have reports of damage in and around wellsston and edmund but it will take the national weather service to assess the power of the storms. we have seen it on video and we have seen the tornadoes. we have tornado watches where the conditions favorable from oklahoma to minnesota, throughout the evening, and several tornado warnings continue for norman, oklahoma,