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Southeast at 90. it s just above, going back northwest into the tornado. shepard: national weather service now warns, this just issued this tornado about which he is speaking in del city is i pr) force base right now. yes. shepard: go ahead. i have you on the del city one here. i will pull up the weather service. shepard: i have that, power flashes being reported in moore, oklahoma, there s a separate tornado there, it s our understanding. it is not as intense at the moment as the one we are watching in and around del city, the one in and around del city headed toward the air force base and believed to reach the area in the next couple of minutes. jeff on the ground, what do you see? i see people at the air force base scrambling and security personnel securing the base on the southeast side. the tornado is approaching. ....
It s south of downtown oklahoma city coming down i-40. shepard: it s eastbound on i-40 headed to downtown oklahoma city right at this moment. that s correct. shepard: so i-40 is an east and west highway. just to the south of it would be areas like moore, and oklahoma city is right on i-40. go on. yes, tornadoes beñind me, the worst of it is coming in to downtown, heavy rain. blowing winds. kathy, i m going to stop right here. and try to turn the car around õso i can see the tornado. shepard: we are looking at pictures now from kwtv and kotv, this is a general wide shot view of the area. we have not reachñd sunset yet, just a second, jeff, we have not reached sunset yet, you see this as dark, as if, you know, it look likes pitch black out there. the sunset officially has not happened. that is how thick and dense this ....
shepard: what is the situation. you don t live on base, you live a little north? about an eighth mile north of base. my options were since we don t have a storm shelter and our house is all exterior walls, we have no interior to the home that we could have either gone to tinker or pretty much got the hell out of dodge which is what we chose to do. shepard: at tinker they have underground shelters for everybody, right? i m not sure about the underground part but designated tornado shelters in every building. shepard: what you did instead is get out of down. head south or north? drove north for ten miles and then headed east and north a little bit more. kind of zig zagging trying to beat the traffic. shepard: and just get out of the way of the storm. what were you seeing as you were leaving? we tried to wait until the last minute and we got a couple of stragglers on our block and my stubborn neighbors decided not to leave they were going to ride it out. ....
Flash. shepard: power flash. power flash. they are hitting the power lines. i m going to continue to track it. kathy watching this area of circulation. i can tell you off the local doppler radar, i m getting a strong and powerful tornado coming along and south of i-40. shepard: you can say with certainty, jeff, that it s on spthe ground, not in the clouds? jeff, i cannot see the tornado, i can tell you bagsed on power plashs in the bowl, the rotating bowl, i cannot see the ....
Position. okay, [ disrupted audio ] getting the camera outside. there it is. there s one to my left. see. [ wind blowing in the microphone ] tornado to ground. shepard: that is weird, it s something about the feed coming from him. we have confirmed through jeff and others, multiple tornados on the ground right now. rick, this is becoming overwhelming and frankly terrifying. it really is, this is part of the problem when they are rain wrapped and it s darker and we are hitting night time. it s very difficult to tell ....