Sky Warn News Today

Hundreds of amateur radio enthusiasts and operators gathered at the Salvation Army in Springfield for HAMfest on Saturday.

The Mississippi Valley Amateur Radio Association celebrated National Sky-warn Recognition Day with the La Crosse National Weather Service.

Nearby in the event we need to get into it. were just monitoring. as you can see, its starting to rain and stops a little bit and at moments it feels a little more intense than others. but certainly the sky and that thunder were hearing indicates a bad weather night one way or the other. >> ali, thank you very much. i want to go to chad myers. chad, what are you seeing? >> i can see the rotation on doppler radar. and our meteorologist shawn morris has been on the internet there with sky warn, an...

Hes tracking these storms. chad, what are you seeing? >> i can see the rotation on doppler radar. and our meteorologist shawn morris has been on the internet there with sky warn, and thats where that on-the-ground word came from, near neutral which is back here in kansas. you are here, heres joplin right here. ali is at the waffle house. heres downtown joplin and the circulation is way up here. anderson, if i knew you were in trouble, i would tell you to leave. you are not in any danger there. y...

the driver escaped with his life. it was not the only tornado on the ground. at least four people killed west of oklahoma city in canadian county. at one point the national weather service had to evacuate its norman oklahoma storm prediction center. take a look. >> wow. woe got lightning really close. where is it? yeah. >> okay, we got another tornado on the ground. were going to have to get out of here, guys. we cant stay around here. >> multiple vortex tornado on the ground. wheres t...

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weve moved to a more secure location. i want to show you whats been happening in oklahoma, the storm there, simply unbelievable. this funnel cloud cut a tractor trailer in half. the driver escaped with his life. it was not the only tornado on the ground. at least four people killed west of oklahoma city in canadian county. at one point the national weather service had to evacuate its norman oklahoma storm prediction center. take a look. >> wow. woe got lightning really close. where is ...