Damage was reported 15 miles south of Indianapolis in Johnson County, Indiana, after a reported tornado impacted the area Sunday afternoon. At around 3:10 p.m. CDT, multiple videos posted on social media showed a tornado on the ground at the intersection of Interstate 69 and Indiana State Route 144 in Johnson County, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). Damage from tornadic storm in Greenwood, Indiana. (Twitter/@ColeBasey9) According to WTHR, a fire chief in Whiteland, Indiana, locat
A particularly dangerous situation was declared south of downtown Denver Thursday afternoon amid a tornadic storm that tacked miles south of the heat of the city. A tornado warning was issued across Douglas and Arapaho counties at 3:30 p.m. MDT, warning of "life-threatening" conditions due to a spotter-confirmed tornado and golfball-size hail. "This is a PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION," the National Weather Service (NWS) office in Boulder, Colorado, said. The South Metro Fire Rescue reported i
so starting in through as it continues that movement to the east, putting it into cushing at 3:37. so that is the cell we re most concerned about at this hour. also in chickasha we still have the severe thunderstorm warning in place and this cell is approaching norman as we speak. the national weather service office there has said the conditions are more favorable for development on the northern side of the system rather than the southern end of it so things are a bit less conducive for tornadic than in norman than it is in the northern side of norman and up toward moore. this particular cell moving to the east which will put it into norman about 3:38 and then topeka 3:48. a potentially dangerous storm. you could see gusty winds as well as large hail. jake? thanks so much. we ll check in right now with
what i m seeing right now. spencer joins us now on the phone, a storm chaser. spencer, where are you and what are you seeing? i am about three miles south of cole, oklahoma which is southeast of blanchard. we have a rapidly rotating wall cloud that developed in the last ten minutes and it looks like it could drop a tornado at any time. where are you in relation to we know that we heard from one of our local affiliates that there looked to be a tornado on the ground east of perkins which is about an hour northeast of oklahoma city. where are you in relation to that and to oklahoma city? we are south of oklahoma city. we re south of norman which is where the university of oklahoma is. and this storm appears that the tornadic part will miss the norman area but is headed for the washington and the purcell area. this is all one big super cell with lots of different storms within it. have you heard about this
reporter: i m about ten miles east of chickasha, oklahoma now on the road up toward blanchard where i believe the storm is heading. this storm is headed to the areas that were hit so very hard, jake, and even if we don t get a tornado and hopefully we do not, because this storm did lose some organization just in the past 15 minutes. that s why we re on the move going a little bit farther to the east to get a little bit better look at this tornado or potential tornadic storm. right now it is just a severe thunderstorm warning. think about winds of 60 or so miles per hour and hail falling on those people trying to pick up their lives in moore. that s what we re seeing. this is the hail core of the storm almost turning into more than the rotation. certainly the storm can reinvigorate itself. we have a tornado warning for the area up near perkins, oklahoma north of oklahoma city. we will keep you advised on this. right now chickashay s storm is the one that could cross over