norman, oklahoma and the national weather service. serious flash flooding threat over the metro. do not dri+e in the areas where water covers the road. that is coming from the weather service. i thought i would read it to you. also just flashing out of the national weather service, circulation in north central part of moore but not strong right how to. what the national weather service is saying is that mid level circulation from which a tornado begins has happened in the northern moore, north moore which is moore is south of oklahoma city. north moore would be between the two of them. circulation there. it has not hit the ground but there are great concerns in moore, oklahoma. i believe jeff pietrowski is still with us while we wait to reconnect with john bryant the airman at tinker. jeff, what are you seeing? apparently we at least temporarily lost the connection. if you look, see the lights coming at us, it is my belief that this is traffic southbound
southeast at 90. it s just above, going back northwest into the tornado. shepard: national weather service now warns, this just issued this tornado about which he is speaking in del city is i pr) force base right now. yes. shepard: go ahead. i have you on the del city one here. i will pull up the weather service. shepard: i have that, power flashes being reported in moore, oklahoma, there s a separate tornado there, it s our understanding. it is not as intense at the moment as the one we are watching in and around del city, the one in and around del city headed toward the air force base and believed to reach the area in the next couple of minutes. jeff on the ground, what do you see? i see people at the air force base scrambling and security personnel securing the base on the southeast side. the tornado is approaching.
it s south of downtown oklahoma city coming down i-40. shepard: it s eastbound on i-40 headed to downtown oklahoma city right at this moment. that s correct. shepard: so i-40 is an east and west highway. just to the south of it would be areas like moore, and oklahoma city is right on i-40. go on. yes, tornadoes beñind me, the worst of it is coming in to downtown, heavy rain. blowing winds. kathy, i m going to stop right here. and try to turn the car around õso i can see the tornado. shepard: we are looking at pictures now from kwtv and kotv, this is a general wide shot view of the area. we have not reachñd sunset yet, just a second, jeff, we have not reached sunset yet, you see this as dark, as if, you know, it look likes pitch black out there. the sunset officially has not happened. that is how thick and dense this
be in the path of it. there are multiple areas around oklahoma city that are likely going to be seeing damage. this is nu a typically clear cut áornado situation, we do not have the visual in the case. the tornado is tracking along interstate-40. interstate 40 goes east and west, right across the screen. i-35 goes north and south. and they cross directly right around oklahoma city. we have reported from the local television stations that t interstate 35, t$e north and southbound interstate is a parking lot headed out of oklahoma city in both directions to the north and to the south. these tornadoes are headed right over i-35. pthe hope is that people in the cars in what is being described ì(lc% lot, the hope is that they get off the freeways and find a
flash. shepard: power flash. power flash. they are hitting the power lines. i m going to continue to track it. kathy watching this area of circulation. i can tell you off the local doppler radar, i m getting a strong and powerful tornado coming along and south of i-40. shepard: you can say with certainty, jeff, that it s on spthe ground, not in the clouds? jeff, i cannot see the tornado, i can tell you bagsed on power plashs in the bowl, the rotating bowl, i cannot see the