it s just tracking straight east down 19th street. tracking right over there where we was at. was within probably quarter to a half mile from it before we had to turn around and bail. violent, violent motion. a huge debris cloud wrapping around it. zoom in tighter on the debris cloud. okay. it looks like maybe, mike, it may be actually starting to lift a little bit more north now than east. hang on just a minute. we ll get out. tornado now is located between penn and western. it s a mile wide and covers the whole area between penn and western at south 19th street. at south 19th. this is a may 3rd type tornado. i would just venture to say it lo looks like it s about an ef-4, could be an ef-5. makes no difference, you got to be below ground, interior closet or bathroom is not going to do it. or get out of its way. storm cellar, basement, or saferoom. below ground of any kind. don t be in your car near the tornado.
well-understood plan in advance must be in place because, you know, there s virtually nothing that could be done to really protect property and buildings and so forth especially with the monster size of this kind of a tornado. but what we can hope for is everyone will understand where they can be as safe as possible given the severity of this storm. that usually means a saferoom in a storm cellar that has been created really to protect people who live in these communities where a tornado is coming. one thing is that once you see the tornado coming and the funnel and so forth, it s really, you can t outrun it. you have to get sheltered and that s, and hopefully the tornado passes over. may destroy the building that you re in, but hopefully lives will be saved. injuries avoided. the whole other phase, of course, right after the tornado where there s quite a bit of danger to people coming out of
i do believe this is on the ground. it s up in those rotating rain curtains. there s jack town right there. here s highway 62. this is meeker. this is the pottawattamie county line right here. this is lincoln county right here. all lincoln county. jack town right there. meeker right here. it s only four miles west of meeker. and i m showing vortex circulation here. in the past sweep, just the past sweep, it has come down a notch. it s probably spinning out right now or at least spinning down. it has been on the ground back in through here. a tight vortex signature. there is a tornado warning firmly in effect with this storm. let s go to the storm tracker. and you folks from jack town, it s over jack town right now, over to meeker, and meeker in particular, could go as far north as sparks. you folks need to protect your life as this heads your way. you want to be someplace below ground out of the way. storm cellar, basement or saferoom if you re fortunate enough to have one of those. th
tornado is picking up something and throwing it around. all of the way back down, all of the way back down past shreveport and there is dallas and austin and houston with severe thunderstorms and you could get hail and winds. the widespread manner of this is maybe 2,000 miles, and buffalo to austin and even a fly there, and i have never seen weather this spread out, and this severe all day long and for this matter all week long. anderson? it is incredible. thank you, chad. the search for deeane haywood who was on the way to pick up food for her son s graduation party when the storm struck, and her kids join me ahead. and the family who barely made it inside of their saferoom in time last night.
be in the morgue. we re going to try to get answers for them tonight and tell you what is what they have seen and what stories they are facing, the difficulties they are facing. there s also new and dangerous storms out there tonight as the deadliest tornado season in half a century continues. significant destruction in bedford, indiana. take a look where a tornado hit just a short time ago, damaging or destroying several homes. no immediate word on injuries. we re keeping an eye on this. and bad weather across the midsection. tornado watches and warnings now in effect from ohio all the way down to texas. i also want to show you a staggering piece of video taken by storm chasers of that deadly tornado in oklahoma. this could be the losest anyone has gotten to such a powerful twister and survived. take a look. slow down. get out your window, get out your window. watch behind you. that tornado yesterday in oklahoma. here in joplin, 125 confirmed dead. that s the new numbe