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sioux ward, lake liberty, lake guthrie, neff vine nah, dangerous, very dangerous, david payne on it right now. this is yukon, west oklahoma city, all of edmond, south edmond, central edmond, north ed mopped, even the village, mercy hospital. this has got a tornado warning on it. not tornadoing now, we have got our tower cam looking straight to the west. if it produces a tornado, we will be able to see t village, nickel hills, mer city, this could produce a tornado quickly. we are going to peel off jim gardner, bounce down, get a full tank of gas and come back up. mercy hospital there jim is going to be touching down at thç station, gas up and come back up with a full tank of jet. this storm has a big hook on it tornado warning, too. big hook, right here. southwest of chickasha. this has got a big, big, big, deep meso cyclone on it the kind that produces large tornadoes. let's do a stormtracker on it. it is going to come right up i-44. economic ka shea, middleburg, blanchard, branch creek, newcastle, moore, norman. two crews converging rapidly on that storm from northeast of chickasha. if things don't change this storm is going to cause massive, massive problems up here from chickasha up to newcastle, middleburg, blanchard, bridge creek f you have a safe room next door, you got to call them and get ready to go there you may have to get out of its way. this storm is ramping up and it is very large and it is very well organized and it has a very large updraft rotating meso cyclone in it, right into economic chickash chickasha. southwest oklahoma city, could go midwest city, dell city, right now, exactly where the may 3rd tornado supercell was moving northeast. this is moving differently in direction but moving fast. we are taking that same corridor here. it is moving 40, 45 miles an hour, these are booking along that may become a serious storm in the state hereç any minute now. you are watching news channel 4 here at 5:00, it is 3 after 5. continuing coverage of news channel 4 at 5:00. grape fruit-sized hail with it, very damaging hail. this thing looks awful. just looks terrible. we have got crews on it heading southbound right now, converging on that storm, but the important thing is if you are watching us, live in the cities near the red line track, you have got to think about going to your safe spot, you may have to go below ground or get out of its way. let's show you the warnings now. say that again. debris -- yeah, debris ball, looks like a debris ball arting to form now, talking about chickasha, oklahoma county, logan county, southeastern king fisher county, eastern canadian county, tornado warnings, grady county, tornado warnings. there are three storms here, the one coming toward gut rib, the one coming toward yukon and the one coming toward chickasha in the next five to ten minutes. let's go back -- who do we have here? go -- jim gardner is bouncing down here. we have david? david are you with us? >> i'm here. >> go, david. what do you got? >> i'm -- i can't tell where you i'm, about a mile -- where am i, 178th, mike, going east like north, east of four corners and i see it, but it is wrapped in rain. i can't get close enough to it t is wrapped in rain right now as it is now moving into southwest logan county. but you can see it i can see the left side and the right side t is still a violent tornado, mike no doubt about it but i'm not like 100 yards like earlier. i'm back a couple of miles or so but you canning definitely see where it is. i haven't crossed a damage path because i have been on the south side, trying to get back east and get northeast of it traffic is slowing me me down a little bit. mike, i guarantee it is still on the ground, no way it is done. >> that circulation isç still very violent, very violent and it is at -- going to be at council and rockwell, two miles north of waterloo road. alan lowery, it tell me what are your cross streets, where do you live? broadway and davis? okay, you need to call -- i'm sure she is aware of it call your wife and your kids. it is heading very close to your location here very, very soon. this circulation is violent up here. it hasn't changed. it is just conroll the atmosphere around it, it is a big hole punched in the atmosphere. it is even drawing this supercell up into it. david, you're listening to us here the circulation, still have 200 -- go to the north dot here, 200-mile-an-hour circulation. just over four corners, approaching seward road and the town of seward, which is here, up toward guthrie. still violent circulation, just -- what is that -- alan is that simpson road, si? yeah, simpson road. si, simpson road. and rockwell is where it is now. it is an absolute hurricane of a tornado it it has got everything going into it t is still likely large and violent and going to carve across the landscape right up toward guthrie. you folks in gut rib, nothing changed it hasn't weakened, hasn't gone away, still violent, produced a maxi tornado several times, maybe an ef 4, potentially ef 5. we have had reports of homes leveled back to the southwest with this storm. david payne are you still with us. >> in the headed eastbound. get far enough over here, maybe up may avenue, is that goingç be too far west or keep checking east? >> there it is, southwest of chickasha, jim gets back up, have him jump down i-44 chickasha, folks in chickasha, you are out of time. chickasha, you are out of time. david, right now it is at rockwell, 3 miles north of waterloo road, heading directly for guthrie. >> right. right. if you're may avenue going north, you are fine, are you up to waterloo road yet? >> just south of there. >> you will make it you are going to intercept it in four minutes, four miles north of waterloo road on may avenue, you are going to look right to your west and be out of your avenue. three miles north of waterloo road on may avenue. when you get there it is going to be out your door. oh, my gosh, go to the south doppler radar, chickasha folks, you are out of time. you have got to get to your safe spot now. take the south stop full. look at the hook. that's on the ground. chickasha. as soon as jim gets airborne, almost a full tank of jet a, right down i-44 you folks in chickasha on the ground now, coming into chickasha it is on the ground, we will zoom on in here, you see the hook it is on the ground and it could easily go to a violent tornado and we are going to split hairs here a bit, shouldn't be the guthrie airport but it is going to be central and south chickasha and it is on the ground right now. that is the tornado right there. here is 81. here is 81, southbound out of chickasha, just south -- on the bailey turnpike. they need to close the bailey. they need to get people off the bailey turnpike. it is going to go up the bailey turnpike. here it is right here, south of where may 3rd tracked. looks like itç may have bounce tornado play is bounced. christianson approaching -- an update on where troy is probably pretty close to it now. it looks like the central and southern-sized, jim gardner airborne, southwest toward moore. this is coming right up i-44. you see the stinger, inflow, the hook, a giant hook, perfectly shaped hook echo with a tornado on the end of the hook, right there chickasha, all the way up highway 9 and the bailey turnpike. you cannot go down the bailey turnpike. don't go down there. very dangerous. well-established supercell, looked like it bounced and may have lifted right now, these are reports we are getting. jim gardner is airborne, already down to ocu, heading southbound toward southwest moore and southwest oklahoma city. that looks like a tornado again. yep, there it is. again, right there, it's there. that's it. this is t south side -- is it -- it's in the city limits right now. south side of chickasha it is on the ground. chickasha is being hit by a tornado right now. coming up on 81. that's it. that's it right there on 81 at the bailey turnpike. chickasha is being hit by a tornado right now. do we have troy christianson? grady mcclaine. go the warnings here, take a look, three areas we are concerned about. we have got guthrie, a hurricane of a tornado up there heading right for guthrie, produced very large, violent tornadoes. oklahoma county, for the one southwest of yukon, rotation on that right this very second, not quite as strong, tornado warning for it can't split hairs. down here, chickasha, tornado on the ground, chickasha hit by a tornado now. the tornado warning included for mcclaine county. go back to the south doppler radar and take a look had and it is now on the east side of 81 on the bailey it turnpike. folks cannot be going down the bailey turnpike. ç chickasha is being hit, the hook echo right into it there it is debris ball right there. going to go up toward blanchard and middleburg on highway nine. south-southwest out of tab letter, may have lifted, may not have lifted, see it from tab letter, highway 89. -- highway 9. it is physically on the bailey. see the debris ball, in the valley, east side of chickasha. control room, keep an eye on tower cam for me. if you see anything, yell, will ya? circulation's increasing rapidly now. it's so hazy outside and thick. let's talk to jim. pot up jim's mike here. this thing coming into edmonds, increasing, just bayou con. jim, jim, hold on just a second here. can you see anything? >> we are continuing to look at the storms touching down, tornadoes touching down in oklahoma. of course, could be devastating as we have seen in alabama and in joplin, missouri, the last month. 78 killed in one tornado, 61 in another in alabama. then in joplin now, unfortunately, death count up to 123. now to get hit with another one in oklahoma is amazing. we will continue to follow this story when we return. we are continuing our coverage of the tornadoes touching down in oklahoma. it has been a very, very rough tornado season in that portion of the country. when we return, more on the latest in oklahoma. ked a btle and we'd stop at nothing until they were ours. surrender the chewy gooeys! 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[ female announcer ] phillips' colon health. tornado in oklahoma right now, after the deadly tornadoes in alabama and missouri. we are keeping a close look out for this let's get the very latest from our local nbc affiliate, kfor. >> southwest metro situation >> i'm with you. >> yep. yep. >> you have a visual on it now? >> no, it completely -- i haven't seep it for about 15 minutes it is completely wrapped in rain or it is not there at all. like you said, the velocity, wind speeds say that it is there and going to be headed toward gutry. the folks in and around guthrie really got to watch this thing. if it is still on the ground like it was, it is a deadly, deadly tornado, mike. no doubt about it. >> penn avenue north of seward road. penn avenue and seward road where it is right now. penn avenue and seward road, southwest of guthrie, where the circulation is right now. it has weakened some. it is still quite violent but weakened some. get troy on the getner, we can talk to him, it is quite violent in the chickasha area. south doppler radar, take a look at it large debris ball here. when you get troy here, we will get him here with his live stream up, rapidly closing in. two miles west of tabler, south of i-44, headed up toward middleburg, blanchard, new castle, moore and norman. moore and norman, large tornado on the ground. you see it is a complete sink drain here, spinning up rapidly. jim gardner is rapidly coming out of that as well. jim is closing it on the circulation, now just near newcastle, heading southbound. vel a visual on that tornado in a matter of minutes. troy, big tornado amount ground here, tell us where you are now, northwest of tabler, northeast of chickasha? >> heading quickly to the south into that storm right now. i tell you what traffic is crazy on the roads. we just need to tell everybody, especially in oklahoma county to get off the roads therdç are a lot of emergency vehicles out here now going in different directions, that need to leave the roads open for them. we are going to be heading to the area in ten minutes or less, mike, i will give you an update then. >> jim gardner is rapidly approaching that area. folks in gut rib, good news for you, hope it stays that way, the circulation of that tornado he is rapidly decaying, involved in rain now, decaying. not staying is not going to be a rope tornado or a medium/small tornado that may happen. you are under a tornado warning that is the bottom line. tell you now go to the north doppler here, take a look, the circulation is rapidly decaying up here by seward road and weakened quite a bit it is not dead but is weakening pretty rapidly now near seward coming into guthrie. you folks in gut rib, the bottom line, tornado warning but the circulation is weakening now southwest of guthrie. it still could produce tornadic activity, you see is centered here just to the northwest of seward, going to come into the west side of guthrie, it looks, east and south of cedar valley. yep. yep. yep. south and east of cedar valley, going to come into the west side of guthrie, the west side of guthrie, northwest of seward, right now. it is still -- still rapid circulation, looks like maybe a -- if it is on the ground, might be an ef 2 or so but it doesn't appear to be like that ef 4 we had earlier, but gut rib, you folks have got take your tornado precautions, still very, very serious for guthrie, you want to be in the closet or bathroom, this one he produced violent tornadoes, circulation northwest of seward and three miles southwest of guthrie, put it in your neighborhood in about five minutes from right now, five minutes from right now. let go to the south doppler radar, take a look at the tornado down here by tabler. it is very large and it isç heading for middleburg, blanchard and newcastle, moore and norman. we have got jim gardner chopper four and troy christianson on that you folks in norman, bull's eye directly toward you now. we will do a storm projection on that and take a look and it is a large tornado down here with an eye it has got an eye in it. it is going to be moving right up toward norman. so let's do a storm projection. take the stormtracker here, control room, and we will do a storm projection on it. stormtracker, middleburg, blanchard, bridge creek, newcastle, highway nine, goalsby, river wing casino, 557, river wind casino 557 toward ta couple sa road, norm, indian hills, indian hill road and norman at 6:00, large tornado on the ground heading right for norman, middleburg, blanchard, big hail in newcastle, large hail in northwest, large hail in moore. debris falling from the zmi gutry. we have jim gardner on guthrie, coming into sight right now, just got a full tank here. walk down to that do a storm projection. middleburg, blanchard, bridge creek, 551. >> come out east to moore and norman!qnd come around. >> he a has got -- jim has to go down i-35, what he has to do. continue down i-35. >> mike says i-35. >> maybe the west -- maybe the east side of i-35. yep. and come on around. he will swing around. he will see t pop out, all by itself, big tornado, a large one, big, big, big debris crowd. we have an eye on t we get troy christianson. you folks in guthrie, now three three miles southwest of guthrie, debris falling out of the sky in gust rib, from the homes this is leveled, back to the southwest. i would say that it is a small tornado on the ground right now at kelly, at kelly avenue, whatever the junction there is in guthrie that goes west. kelly, whatever west roadway goes west with. >> emily there now. >> she have a visual on it? emily shutson near guthrie r emly, are you with us? >> mike, we are ten miles north of guthrie are, heading south on i-75.ily, are you with us? >> mike, we are ten miles north of guthrie are, heading south on i-75. we don't have a visual, we are driving in the pouring rain. we are getting very strong wind gusts, very treacherous driving here. wind gusts that caused us to swerve on the road. >> come southbound, you will beat the tornado. when you get a visual, you jump right in here, okay? very strong winds with it. there's the tornado, looks like it is a small tornado now but likely still on the ground and going to be -- what is that 1, 2, 3, west and 1 1/2 south of guthrie, debris falling out of the sky in guthrie, emily ten north of guthrie southbound and looking to your west, but likely still a small tornado on the ground, could still be an ef 2 but not an ef 4 or 5 like earlier and beams going to come around here and see how you moves. still çsitting, the west side guthrie, between guthrie and cedar valley it will cross highway 33 and cross 33 here in 60 singhs. for you folks in west gust rib, east cedar valley, north guthrie, skirt the northwestern sides of guthrie where it is going now. go to the south doppler radar and take a look at the large tornado continuing down south and david payne down there still a debris ball on the ground west of middleburg, just west of middleburg, north of middleburg, near blanchard, west and north of blanchard, south of bridge creek here. fortunately, it is taking a path, going to be a lot of farms and homesteads in here. the more densely populated areas, it is going in between the two right now. farms and homesteads in between highway 9 and i-44, mowing right through here, a large, violent tornado, from there heading into norman or south moore. right now, heading directly into norman. and when we have troy here, let me know on the getner here. do you have troy now? let's go to the warnings we have. take a look at the warnings, logan county, tornado warning for west and north guthrie, oklahoma county, yeah that storm weakened when it came over edmond. doesn't look especially bad right now, really good, the tornado warning continues for oklahoma county. very much for cleveland, mcclaine and grady counties, eastern grady, cleveland and mcclaine counties, tornado warnings continue for you folks in the south metro. it is a large, violent tornado on the ground, northeast of chickasha, southwest of newcastle. what was that? okay. troy, let's go to the south doppler radar. troy, give us an update, where are you what do you see? >> approaching blanchard right now, basically in the rain and hail. hail size starting to pick up a little bit. ton of traffic on the road, trying to get around theç backside of it it will be in less than five minutes, mike. >> you are coming into blanchard now. looking to your southwest, the west southwest from blanchard, can you see it right now? >> you know, i'm still in the rain, but we are actually starting to come out of the rain right now, point the camera that way. we are trying to get a visual on it here in just a moment. >> he is just to the south of there is where he needs to go and just stop. >> okay. troy, very good for that jim gardner now is over west norman heading southwest. and he is going to be coming around. that is still a large tornado, still a large tornado on the ground. any more damage reports from -- >> i'm hearing a baby's trapped somewhere in the four corners area. >> where are you getting that? >> sky warning. >> from ham? ham radio operators saying a child crap trapped in four corners. with storm trackers, they are the first

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