things you can do around your home, that can help out, too. that can help you out in your cleanup efforts, but right now we re heading into what looks to be a very dangerous storm that could be moving into oklahoma metro area. that s oklahoma county, cleveland county, and all the way points southward towards moore and norman, but we ll keep you advised as it gets closer. and again, we re keeping in mind, mindful of this because i m here in boston for the benefit concert tonight and there was the benefit concert last night in oklahoma city for the folks in the surrounding communities who lost their homes and several deaths, we know, from what happened in moore last week with that ef-5 tornado. you, chad myers, worked in oklahoma city. you know this area of the country better than most we have at cnn, and for the people who live there, and i was really struck by this being there last week, a lot of them are native oklahomaens and they are used to
radar cut through the storm, looking for the worst of it, sending this data back to the weather service in case there does need to be a tornado warning at any time. you have to understand sometimes radars are 30, 40, 50 miles away. this radar right now is about six miles away from the rotation of this storm, brooke. incredible. i m going to give you a second to put that phone up by your ear so you can hear me. i know we have this delay, but this technology is truly impressive now as we really have improved how we can predict and see how the storms form. we still don t know, as sam was pointing out, the path that they will take, but again, explain to us when you re looking at these clouds, chad, a wall cloud. what is that again? it is really where the uplift of the storm is the most impressive. it s the rotating part of the super cell thunderstorm. it s the meso cyclone itself, a
because my internet service is getting a little bit sketchy, but we could be getting a tornado warning at any time. let me do that. let me do that right now, chad. stay on the phone with me. samantha mohr at cnn, samantha, what are you seeing, how many active warnings out there right now? we have two active warnings right now in the state of oklahoma, brooke. you can see the one that chad s making his way towards. that is still at this point a severe thunderstorm warning, but you can clearly see that there s a bit of a hook here, which means there s some rotation possibly in the middle levels of the storm, not at the surface as of yet. this tornado warning further to the north of moore and north of oklahoma city, the one that has been moving across i-35 in guthrie, that still does have a current tornado warning on it, as well. that one is moving to the east at around 25 miles per hour. i think we have some video coming out of that particular cell. yes, here s a location one of
some of these storms with some storm chaser teams. chad, tell me, are you leaving norman, where are you headed, what more do you know? we are with the chase team out of the university of oklahoma. we actually are bringing with us, they are, a doppler radar to look inside the storm to be able to identify where the tornado might be, what storm might be the strongest coming. so which one that we want to chase. the problem is, this is not even so much a chase day. this is a day that i need you to be on your guard in oklahoma county, canadian county, anardarko, across the i-35. brooke, where you spent so much time, there are storms headed right for the same areas that have been hit so very hard. now, the only tornado warning that we have now has moved away from piedmont up towards guthrie. guthrie, oklahoma, you can see the storm to your west, have a few minutes notice, but you need to take cover.
head. you don t want to be putting bowling balls above you as the home possibly starts to get compromised by the tornado. we do know that right now the sirens are going off, there s a large hook echo, which means it looks just like the storm that moved through moore. i do not believe we have a big tornado on the ground yet. i m watching some of the pictures streaming from our affiliates, and so far all i m seeing is rain. the storms will be visible for awhile. there s a lot of humidity in the air. we will see the tornados on the ground. later today, later tonight, the tornados will be wrapped in so much rain that will be falling. if it s coming your way, you hear your siren, if you know your neighbor has a strong place, if they use, you know, $5,000, whatever it might cost, to build that safe house inside, knock on the door if you know it s coming to your house and say can we come in for 30 minutes just to be safe? now i think you could see from the damage in moore, what the