of tornado that might be slipping off. you know, it sounds as confusing as all the words you just said. you see the rope tarnts. they come down under the cloud, do their damage, and go back up. but then you have the storm clouds, wedges, and sometimes mile-wide tornadoes that spawn off. that s why this is such a huge storm. it shows the energy of the storm when you talk about about the multiple vortices that are spinning. that s what trackers are trying to spot. now as it gets into a more populated area, it is wrapped in debris. you use radar and spotters on the ground. when we talked about the noe yas storm watch system, it has
sports events have been cancelled. of course this system sitting over the metro area, bringing hail and heavy rain and winds, gusting up to 90 miles an hour is spinning offer individual tornadoes. local storm chasers, trackers and meteorologists, are tracking so they can let folks know. as darkness descended in oklahoma city to let folks know where the exact path using technology and radar where the exact path of those are going. we have dylan dreyer, msnbc motologist with us. this is a stronger tornado we are seeing and we have several tornado warnings in and around oklahoma city and moore. right now they are saying there are four confirmed tornadoes. some weaker than other in a town
under this tornado watch. that s how they described it from the national weather service. and that s what we see in central oklahoma but southwest moore oklahoma right now is where one of those confirmed tornado is and you know, you just have to keep watching. and seeing where the tornado warnings pop up. we have sergeant jeremy lewis from the moore police department in moore, oklahoma where we have confirmed reports from a tornado touched down there. sergeant, can you confirm there s a tornado touching down there. what is the status of folks in moore? we have multiple tornadoes reported. one is over i-35 and 19th street. we are trying to get east right now to get away from this. we have past several power poles that are down east of where the tornado is supposed to be. we are actually running from it right now.
threatening the oklahoma city area? like i said, we ve been watching it complex on radar for the last two hours. incredibly well organized. probably we have at least another hour of extreme weather in the oklahoma city area. and hopefully after that things will begin to decay. as you good through night time hours, will limit the potential of tornadoes threats as we go into the night time. still a big flaet from flooding rain condition and even into missouri as we go into tomorrow. 20 thousand people without power right now. there are tornado working their way through the area coming through a large storm complex. joining us on the phone again from oklahoma city with the latest is nbc s jay gray.
twisters are. there is rain and wind across the entire area. we know power is out. i m sorry we re now going to. curt on the ground in oklahoma city. and curt, where are you right now? i m in downtown oklahoma city. i m north of interstate 40 in downtown oklahoma city where we live. taking shelter? what precipitated you going down there? well there storm developed to the west of oklahoma city and we started watching it out there and it spawned a tornado and it has remain editeder t editoed t.