doing damage. shepard: an update from the national weather service now, we have gotten info from the national weather service to indicañe that rdf winds that means rear flank downdraft winds may are have disrupted part of the system and they believe that parts of this are not quite as severe as they were moments ago. still extremely dangerous, but it gives us some hope. go on. i have new power flashes and i agree with the statement. i m going take off another power flash in front of me. i do see on doppler radar and dual pole that the tornado is still doing damage southwest of me. shepard: southwest of you that is southwest of the city of oklahoma city. and due south of downtown. shepard: due south of downtown oklahoma city. what arq we talking about? how far due south? two to three miles. shepard: south of interstate 240 that is one of the loops
the storm moving off to the east, think of the path we had with moore, of 20 miles long, and this tornado crossing over that path at some point. and all of the debris on the ground, we do not have to say what it will do. shepard: we don t, when it passes mustang, and that s the way it s headed, rick, it looks as though the storm is on the collision coerce of i-240 and i-44, that is just south of oklahoma city, between south oklahoma city and oklahoma city itself and right after that is the town of moore, this last tornado that hit thq)e monday. it tracked along for many, many miles on the ground. we tracked it live for the better part of 45 minutes with a helicopter. yes, it s heading directly toward that. i am seeing pictures and we don t have this picture right here on our screen. but i m seeing pictures of a very large tornado on the ground just to txe south of el reno. so some of that picture that you are seeing there, we are getting
west of oklahoma city and west of i-40. it s right in the path. the first tornado has passed through the el reno area and getting close right now to yukon, which is slightly larger populated. you are going to oklahoma city. shepard: it s a closer suburb. it is. i can tell you on the radar, there s morrow ta more rotati back behind the storm. i m looking at the radar. shepard: i have info on that, rick. a storm chaser is saying that he sees what he believes to be a wedge tornado, a few miles south and west of yukon right now. okay, that is the main tornado that we have been seeing. shepard: okay. and that would be a wedge tornado, exactly what we have been hearing, that is probably a mile wide, so anything in that mile wide path is likely going to be destroyed if not incredibly damaged.
heading east yukon. shepard: do you get a sense of how big it is? it s almost a mile wide. shepard: wow, the latest are radar and we are watching it live has it tracking along mustang, oklahoma, which is exactly as you said, south of interstate-240. right now, it s west of interstate 44, right? reporter: yes, still west of interstate 44. shepard: and the weather it s still a mile wide.
to the ground. it s called a rotating bowl. you see where it s green and then you see the bowl, there s debris underneath that. there s a cone coming down right now in that picture. in the center of the picture. watch it right here. there s debris, that is a wrapping circulation right there where the front is green, and it comes forward, it s a down draft and it s coming down i-40. looks like it s now along and south of i-40, that is where it s at right now. tracking along and south of i-40. shepard: and generally headed to the east and slightly northeast. east southeast, or it chp ges direction, sometimes it s east northeast. shepard: the sad truth it s headed right for oklahoma city