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.
people live through when they re in their own homes. you tell everyone to shelter, to get inside, but i don t think anyone has a feeling for what it is like. when we have pictures of things like this of things torn out of the ground, roof trusses, walls getting knocked down, it really brings to light how much you have to prepare for situations like this if you live in an area that s prone for tornadoes. we re talking about the noaa weather radio. pictures here you see, just homes leveled. this is an ef-3 to an ef-4 tornado. probably a 3 at this point. the pictures you see here. now we re talking 140 to 170 miles per hour when you talk about damage like that, don. chad myers, apologize that someone was talking to me. chad, if you look at this damage, let s talk about the severity of these particular storms. you were saying earlier about the what did you say, it was 140 mile an hour winds that would do damage like this, rip these trees, shred these trees like this? yeah.
0 i want to get you up to speed on what s happening right now. tornadoes are raking across oklahoma right now. warnings are sounding in the r normond and oklahoma city areas. more than one tornado has already touched ground just in the past few minutes. it s the top of the hour. you re watching cnn newsroom. this is breaking news coverage. we re seeing huge trees stripped bare. houses torn from their foundations. and a wide path of complete destruction in the area around oklahoma city. this video you re looking at right now from one of the storm chasers, from our affiliate who has been watching this entire thing play out throughout the evening has been talking to us here on cnn. also watching this play out is our meteorologist chad myers. and chad, you know this area very well, you used to work and live in this area. we saw a tornado rip through a neighborhood live earlier here on cnn and it was nothing, nothing but nothing less than anything incredible. yeah. you know, don, when