it went further east, it caused damage. we saw storm chasers and motorists that were thrown off the road. we went out and pulled them out of their vehicles. it was just a disaster, very violent tornado. today was one of those days where you knew there were going to be strong tornadoes. they just seemed to keep hitting oklahoma. a really eerie part of today was when we were chasing that weak rain wrapped tornado. thankfully, this weakended as it moved through south oklahoma city. we went through damage path of the ef-5 tornado just, what, seven to ten days ago. i live actually two to three miles south of that damage path. our thoughts and prayers definitely go out to the people here in oklahoma city and south oklahoma city and moore. because it s going to take years to rebuild. it looks like a war zone up there still. a tornado took a hard turn. you can see how volatile the
ground below. sometimes the tornadoes made contact with the ground and lift again and might make contact again 30 seconds or two minutes down the path. we don t know if it is on the ground exactly as it is crossing over there. seeing that traffic certainly if any cars are turned over or damaged nobody is getting off of that interstate any time soon. shepard: sometimes these things bounce along like a pogo stick. exactly. exactly. that is what i was just staying. they touch and lift back up and touch again. we had a tornado a couple of days ago in the northern areas of oklahoma that was actually yesterday afternoon around guthrie and it was on t$e ground for 30 seconds. did damage in the 30 seconds and then lifted again and then miles later. that is often the case with the rotation in these tornadoes and that is why we can t say for sure with the run crossing over interstate 35 that there is contact with the ground at this point. shepard: we are waiting for
lebanon, missouri to 11 miles west of hazard. quarter size hail and 70-mile an hour wind gusts reported. the source on that was weather radar. hail damage to vehicles and crops expected. expect considerable tree he damage. wind damage likely to mobile homes, roofs and outbuildings. many different areas in the path of this including bennett springs, decaturville, dry knob, eldridge, extreme southwestern part of fort leonard wood there. falcon and lebanon. the list is long. if you are are in the area we recommend noaa weather radar and nws tweets if you are on twitter. also includes bennett creek state park and a long line of thunderstorms. another severe weather statement as of 30 seconds ago has just come in to remind us a tornado warning for western pp newton and western jasper and
and it was a dangerous situation. we saw severe structural damage. looked like some where in the union city el reno a)ea and then the same storm went through south oklahoma city and we were communicating with mike norman in the oklahoma city area to keep everybody warned in the path of the storms and right now, i m trying to get to my house in norman which was two miles south of the ef5 damage path. we are driving through the ef5 damage path, what was that ten days ago and the same area had tornado warnings and tornadoic winds move through again. definitely a really bad situation and our thoughts and prayers go out to the people here in oklahoma city. this is our own backyard. so people need to take all of the tornado warnings seriously in the st. louis area because you got to assume the worst case scenario. shepard: reed timmer thanks for your reporting tonigñt. stay in touch and stay on the