there s a wall eastbound. it s coming into the heart of if city now. shepard: you talk very fast, as you know, jeff and i have a hard time understanding you. did you just say that this headed into the town of oklahala city? yes, people are fleeing the path of the tornado, i have state troopers and highway patrol, they are trying to get out of the path. it s west of me, look at the radar. shepard: okay for our rur viewers, i-40 and i-44 cross paths, and it s a completely populated area, absolutely completely populated, there s no breaks. it s like a large city with suburban areas and it s all grown together and all of it is heavily populated. highway patrol are running eastbound. and southbound.
now on the ground and they are all headed directly for oklahoma city. this is the worst case scenario imaginab imaginable. and people in oklahoma have lived with this forever, it s my hope that every single person in that area has taken shelter underground, but i know better. jeff, are you in a safe place? and if not, why not. yes, research team just passed me, flying eastbound, trying to get out of the path. they are trying to track the storm. running eastbound. i have a i m going to estimate well over 100 vehicles are flying eastbound with oklahoma highway patrol escorting them.ti r have highwa behind me, they are in the fast lane, and literally everyone is running eastbound to get us on of the path of the tornado. it s an unbelievable scene.
tornado go over a south of el reno and southwest of yukon, it started to get to a heavily populated area and it ran over structures from and it hit a number of structures, i do not have a number, but it did hit a mobile home park, i don t know how many people lived in it. it was like 40 to 30, the kind of number i m looking at. south of 40. it s a large destructive tornado. it has done marriage damage, and it s heading toward oklahoma city and it will start to recycle again, and when it does that, it will produce more tornadoes, it s southeast of yukon, the debrie the air. we are looking at the live pictures from the video from storm chaser jeff is traveling. i assume you are on i-40 eastbound? yes, shep bear with me a
tornado alley. this is where tornadoes form this time of yoor. we had a slow spring and it has all changed in the last ten days. the humidity levels creeped up in a big way. if you are in oklahoma city, you know how hot and humid it was. if there s any slight difference to the day we saw with moore, oklahoma, these storms are firing further to the north. the day before the moore, oklahoma, tornado, there were big tornados that we watched in the afternoon, live pictures cutting to the north of oklahoma city. that town had two days of it in a row and we have it here again. it looks like these are track engine an area somewhere between oklahoma city and edmund to the north. if they head due east, which they tend to do. it will go across the heavily populated corridor, that is really highway 77 that goes down to oklahoma city and then interstate 35. that whole area, pretty heavily
southeast of me. broad circulation, tornadoes both on the north side and southeast side, think of a really a merry-go-round in the sky, and tornadoes that rotate around the large merry-go-round, that is what is happening right now. when you hear about this tornado this location, this location, the storm is rotating with tornados coming down about a fo fou four-mile radius, the tornadoes are coming down around the bowl. here comes more emergency vehicles. you see, all oklahoma city highway patrol and police are responding to the disaster that is unfolding west of me coming down the interstate. shepard: this is his vaátz feed we are watching. for viewers just joining us, there s tornadoes on the north side, south sitz and an enormous cloud producing multipl tornados, multiple tornadoes are