driving right into it. tornadoes like, this they are surrounded by rain. it s a mile wide. you don t even know it s a tornado. it looks like a rain storm. you have no way of knowing until it s on top of you. they were heading for down the road, i-40, when they saw a cow fly by. i m not kidding. they saw trees uprooted that were in the air, flying by, and with that they turned around and ran as drove as fast as they could in the other direction and as it happens, that tornado hit an overpass and i don t know if you ve heard me say this earlier, people who were driving took shelter under this overpass and the cars parked underneath it were gone a moment later and one woman was sucked out from under that overpass where she was hiding for her son. her son survived. she did not. that he is when you have buildings and trees and cars that are literally picked up into the air and hurled, who knows how far away, that does show you what they are dealing
todd and jennifer, you are some couple of people. i m glad to meet you in this circumstance. it i hagives us a sense of what going on. let me go to bryan norcross. is this a dangerous tornado tonight? no. this storm is essentially dissipated. although will are some tornado warnings and severe thunderstorm warnings in oklahoma, although nothing of this scale and actually another storm by dallas, chris, and extending northwest st. louis, those are nothing like the scale that we ve seen here happen in moore, oklahoma, earlier this afternoon. well, let s get the dimensions for the history books. is this an e-5? is this 200 miles an hour or where are sfwhe. it s certainly 200 miles an
hospitals have received at least 29 injured in the storm. seven are in critical condition. the national weather service says the tornado was at least an e-5. that s the second highest strength rating. carries winds up to 200 miles per hour. the white house said the president has been receiving updates on the storm and rescue efforts. the magnitude of the destruction and loss is still emerging but what is clear at this hour, this is a storm that will go into history. the weather channel s brian is joining us right now. i was watching about an hour ago with your report that possibly there was going to be another tornado hitting down, this this tornado was heading towards pauls valley, oklahoma. let me go to milissa right now. she covered tornadoes in the oklahoma city area. i m trying to figure out what we have facing us later tonight,
we have an official count of 10 killed. 6 in terms of its track, a mile wide, perhaps an e 5, perhaps 200-mile-per-hour winds. where do you put it in terms of history. it looks very devastating, you know, hopefully the death toll will be reduced from the warnings that we were able to get in place both days in advance, we were watching this system advance for days, we have been talking about it for almost a week. we have been talking about warnings and tornado emergencies issued before the heart of the storm impacted moore, oklahoma. it s a devastating track. it s very reminiscent of the tornado that went through moore, oklahoma in 1999, on the third of may.
the storm that went through moore, of course has dissipated but that thunderstorm lives on and is continues to produce a threat across portions of the southern great plains. tornado season lasts how long? i heard that this is the height of the season? this really is the height of the season particularly here in oklahoma. we re located in norman, oklahoma, just a few miles past. we re responsible nationwide for tornado forecasting. this is the peak of the season right in this area, springtime is the peak for tornado season but we can have tornadoes any time of year. we re looking at unconfirmed damage of loss of life.