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Tornado warnings in place. we re looking at two. keep in mind we still have some as well in kansas. these are doppler indicated. the ones we re seeing out of oklahoma, these are confirmed tornadoes. we re confirming them right now, dons, as we re watching them on tv as they re developing. we see the helicopter pilots out there. we want to make sure, as i said earlier, you re in the basement, somewhere in a center hallway, in a place away from windows. yeah. you want to be away from windows. make sure you re protecting your head. when we saw all the tornadoes coming through alabama, remember, two years ago, so many people were saying that, they would see less injuries if they had helmets out there. something to protect their heads. this is something else you can get. get into the bathtub, put that mattress over to provide protection as well. okay. so jennifer. yes, don. edmond. uh-huh. wellston, arcadia. yeah. track it one more time for you. hopefully ow producers can pu ....
Ground. i m trying to reposition myself back in front of this a little bit. i m actually approaching the west side of tulsa. obviously, a major metropolitan area, a potential tornado could be headed there shortly. so as you were chasing this, jason, and you, starting with wellston, and we saw what happened there, describe what you were seeing, as were you going through, from wellston to carney? i believe wellston was hit first, right, and then carney? i didn t head in that direction. i faded out of that damage path to try to reposition myself, but you could see the destruction. it was moving across, there was debris being thrown up in the air nap was wrapping around the entire circulation. which was very large. i mean it was at least half mile wide, and it could have been larger. it was just, what s the word, embodied environment that was around it. and you are out of harm s way ....
Things other than rain drops and hail in the clouds. seeing tree, seeing limbs. seeing parts of homes and shingles that the radar says, hey, wait. this is not a regular rain drop. it s much larger. what we call debris. it can be insulation, anything out in the clouds. the storm has been on the ground for an amount of time. it is a stove pipe large tornado. if you are in carney, carney. now this is north of wellston and, don, wellston did not take a direct hit. it was a fuel miles north of the city. let me tell you, when you live in oklahoma, a few miles makes a tremendous difference. because even carney, about ten streets north to south, maybe six streets east to west. so less than square mile. if it misses by a square mile, you ve missed the town. it muches such a difference in rural oklahoma. a couple of cells one under the word oklahoma city and one south ....
absolutely. we are looking at that video. people walking around surveying what s left of their homes there. we talk about this all the time, don. if you have a basement, yes, get to the basement. when the storms blow through, they blow out the glass. you can suffer more injuries when you re not in an interior part of your home. looking at video coming in. you re seeing those roofs ripped off. chad just said, he is an expert at this. says it looks like potentially an ef-3, much like we saw coming out of areas of dallas just late last week, ef-3 and ef-4. keep in mind, ef 4, talking winds 200 miles per hour. now, as we go back over, and as chad said to you, we want to talk more about the storm. hey, jennifer, i want to stay on the pictures as long as you can, before we talk about the let s talk about again, according to affiliates, this is wellston. wellston, uh-huh. if you want to know what it looks like in your attic, you just saw it, with the air ....
Proceed throughout the evening here. we saw a tornado touching down. hitting several homes. a helicopter pilot saying, to his estimation, that this tornado that he saw, the one you re looking at right now, look at that, about a half mile long and he said tearing up everything in its path. in wellston, oklahoma. also tornadoes in other parts of oklahoma, and this system is a humongous system from minnesota to texas, and anyone in any of those areas should be on the lookout right knew. look at this thing. this is unprecedented that we get to see something like this. and you can see the lightning and as this tornado went through and started hitting homes, you could see the sparks from electricity and from just debris on the ground there. we have reporters who are in the area who are trying to make their way. we also have affiliate coverage from our affiliate kfor, these live chopper pictures you re looking at now. again, fascinating to see this. ....