looking at live pictures. shawnee, oklahoma. shawnee, oklahoma. these are, sorry, pardon me. these are moments ago. shawnee, oklahoma. our meteorologist jennifer delgado is here. jennifer, looks like a tornado to me. looks like a tornado. and it is a tornado. we ve had denv reports of tornds tornadoes on the ground in shawnee. we re watching this area. very questionable. we re seeing the rotation. there is shawnee. again, weave been talking a lot about pink. as we zoom in, we re going to track this for you. we re looking at two areas of rotation as we track this for you. we go 33 minutes out. this is what s going to happen. near johnson if the storm holds together. if the super cell, for areas like belmont, at 7:20. keep in mind, this tornado warning is in effect until 6:45. could we still see some more
nothing but nothing less than anything incredible. yeah. you know, don, when you see this live, it really brings home what people live through when they re in their own homes. you tell everyone to shelter, to get inside, but i don t think anyone has a feeling for what it is like. when we have pictures of things like this of things torn out of the ground, roof trusses, walls getting knocked down, it really brings to light how much you have to prepare for situations like this if you live in an area that s prone for tornadoes. we re talking about the noaa weather radio. pictures here you see, just homes leveled. this is an ef-3 to an ef-4 tornado. probably a 3 at this point. the pictures you see here. now we re talking 140 to 170 miles per hour when you talk about damage like that, don. chad myers, apologize that someone was talking to me. chad, if you look at this
this is east of oklahoma city heading toward town of shawnee. it s still about 15 miles we ve of shawnee and moving away from norman, away from those populated areas there. another populated area, this storm is very close to the shawnee reservoir. tracking to the east right where that meteorologist is pointing, north of what we consider bethel acres into the town of shawnee. this is a very large storm. it s difficult to see. there are no pictures on television, either affiliate i ve been looking at because it s wrapped in rain right now which means you can t go out there and look at it. all you re going to see is a bunch of rain. you won t see the tornado. you should stay inside. in shawnee and try to get yourself away from windows and between as many walls and the outside as possible, don. chad, i want to show everyone the reason that you re seeing this and that we re on the air now covering this. the intensity of the tornadoes.
seeing a tornadoes across the region and i think it is being confirmed there is a tornado there. as we go back over to our graphic and talk about the two that we have, here s manford, again, this tornado here as we track this for you and tell you, it looks like this is going to be in place to about 6:50. and we show you some of the communities that are in the path of this storm. you can kind of see the signatures. they re looking pretty food goo the radar. very classic hook echo. as we time this for you, i think maybe we ll pull that out for you, 20 miles out. and 6:27, park. 6:52, south village. 6 6 6:57, shamrock. this is not a time to obviously not listen to authorities there. listen. some people may think, this is national news, why are we being so local? because we re trying to save people s lives. absolutely. this is tornado alley. we want people to get to safety. this is tornado alley. we re trying to forecast this for you, tell you how far out this thing is and if it s ri
they know what county you re in. they know you were just placed in a tornado warning. anybody that travels a lot, that drives a lot in tornado alley, in severe weather season, you need to buy one of these apps. many of them are close to free. 99 cents. 1.99. whatever it might be. it s the best thing you can possibly do so you know where you are when the tornadoes are close to you. chad, we re at the beginning of the season, right? well, yeah, april should have been the beginning of the season. really. we didn t have an april season. something in the neighborhood of 80 to 100 tornadoes in april. should have been almost 400. by this time of year, we should have over 500 tornadoes on the year on ground on average. right now we have 250. today is going to make up for quite a few numbers i believe. it is still spring. my son gets out of school for summer break on friday. everybody thinks it s already summer but it s not. it is still spring. there s still warm air. there s still cold air