tonight. as we go into the future, there is still a tornado watch. it goes until this evening across a good portion of ohio. then we have the severe thunderstorm watches. behind this, we re looking at some pretty gusty winds. in nashville, watch out for the potential for 50-mile-an-hour winds. you are seeing that line move across your region right now. ohio, don, the eastern sections of ohio look to be the most imminent but long-range. going throughout the night, it looks to be a portion of the eastern great lakes. i want to give you this bit of information. i m just being told by my producers, the journal star reporting the mail address found some 100 miles southwest. that traveled a big distance. those winds were unbelievable, karen. it was. and one of the reports that we saw, there was a tornado track
catastrophic tornado. bret: yeah. jeff, you have seen this before. can you characterize this on a scale how big, how damaging? looking at these pictures, it s pretty amazing to look at. this tornado track from what i understand ground report. friends digging people out of rubble south of oklahoma city. people out at the school helping with kids and i have got other people that are up there right now that are literally pulling people out of rubble in houses. super catastrophe on the south side could be up to a mile wide. i understand there is a lot of injuries. unconfirmed number of deitz. really bad. that tornado is going to be a high ef-scale. 3, 4, 5. i m hearing upwards very large. ef 4 or 5.
and then just missing the heart of the city, up towards guthrie. another tornado track in the southwest suburbs of oklahoma city. also tornadoes tracked on the east sides of norman, up near i-40 near shawnee. and we just filmed a couple more tornadoes east of shawnee and east of oklahoma city. now we re tracking tornadoes back towards tulsa, where i live, tornado warnings are in effect in tulsa. we just had a tornado on the ground literally about five miles to the northeast. i m on i-40, tracking between tulsa and ft. smith and that s where the tornadoes are tracking at this time, as well as and jeff, jeff, if i may, just jeff, if i may just interrupt you there. i understand that you personally were helping with the rescue operation and pulling people out of debris and stuff. is that right? today, not in that situation, but in joplin on sunday, yes. i stopped to help with the tornado damage there in joplin and recover people out of rubble and finding people, both alive and that
take a look at this truck. you see a twister coming towards it and then literally demolishing it. that s the power of what is going on right now in oklahoma. there s also a new warning in joplin, missouri of possibly another tornado there, and i want to bring in storm chaser jeff petrusky, he s on the phone in oklahoma. what is the latest from where you are in oklahoma? piers, we ve had an incredible tornado outbreak and we have massive damage in so many locals. let s start, this afternoon, shortly after 3:00, we had severe storms that produced significant damage. northwest of oklahoma, we had tornadoes cross i-40 northwest of oklahoma city. we had major damage in the piedmont area with confirmed fatalities. back southwest of there, a mile-wide tornado on i-40. and then just missing the heart of the city, up towards guthrie. another tornado track in the southwest suburbs of oklahoma
north of el reno, the tornado track is actually north of el reno. it was on the ground from the southwest portion of canadian county, traveled to the southeast of calumet to the north side of el reno and then tracked to the northeast side of canadian county and going through the city of piedmont. we ve got two confirmed fatalities at this point. however, the news has been reporting as many as four. that has not been confirmed to me as of yet. we ve got numerous injuries. we ve got a lot of structures that are completely destroyed. and right now we re in the process of doing some damage assessments and we ve got our fire departments out doing some search and rescues oon some of