in the village 707 and forest park at 7:18. spencer at 7:26. the system just rips along to the east at a very brisk pace at 40 miles per hour. not only are we worried about that incredibly dangerous tornado, but we have large hail out there the size of softballs. so that itself can be a fatal blow if you get hit in the head. also flooding and incredible danger here as we re getting torrential rain on saturated ground. a lot of lightning out there as well. of course, a lot of debris now out there that you re going to have to contend with. a very dangerous situation. that tornado warning does continue yet this evening, jake. and that tornado emergency, more serious than a tornado warning. it continues for ucon, richland, bethany and the village. everyone is being told by the government and by the national weather service to take immediate tornado precautions right now. we have reports that will rogers
a wheat field. i saw dirt and debris being sucked up along with the roots of the wheat crop. so we stopped at the corner. we took a couple pictures. now the storm redeveloped. it s just a funnel cloud. i don t believe it s on the ground. i m looking straight north at it. i have great definition. we re in no danger whatsoever. it looks like it s going to recycle. it s going to lose power for a while and then all of this moisture, still 80 degrees outside, 85 degrees where we are, all of this moisture, all of the humidity will be sucked back into this storm. it will regenerate. what i m concerned with now, now we re only 30, maybe less miles into a major metropolitan area. now we re probably 15 miles. five miles into the suburbs of oklahoma city. and this is where we start to now worry that it s not a wheat field anymore. now it s people s homes, people s lives and they need to take cover. they re hearing the sirens. the sirens are definitely going
on may 20th, we literally stood or i stood outside the shelter and watched the tornado until the debris was kind of snowing, it was kind of snowing debris, if you will, with two by fours and fence pickets and shingles and decking and insulation and stuff like that, until it was a couple hundred yards away before i went into the shelter. you can get into them fairly quickly if you re close. we re within two or three minutes of being able to get to a shelter if we need to. you are warned about that, you were warned by sirens or do you listen to the local affiliate, the local tv weathermen telling you get to a shelter right now? how do you know when the moment is that it s time to leave your living room and go? well, ironically enou, we were we were observing looking to the west on may 20th and what we literally watched
i m actually seeing debris in the air a mile, mile and a half from me. it is nowhere near the main circulation. i believe we re seeing multiple tornadoes falling out of the same storm. and, of course, one of the big fears is that there is still so much debris from the major tornado that hit oklahoma city and specifically moore, oklahoma, just 11 days ago. still so much debris on the ground. still so much debris that is dangerous if it were to become airborne. the winds could really push that debris around, debris that would not be create bid today s storm and cause serious damage. we have george howl with us again. george, i hope you took my advice and sought some safety. where are you calling from? absolutely, we re taking the advice of the officials and getting out of the way of the
trying to bump debris all over the place. you want to be southeast of a tornado when it actually comes in. so you can see it coming. we re really, really getting hits by winds right now, jake. we re not even close to the tornado and the winds are that was at least a 70 mile per hour gust trying to get into the tornado itself, trying to reinvigorate the storm. chad, can you see if there is still a funnel on the ground? we can t tell from what we re seeing. you know, where i am, i m in a new developing area. there is not a tornado on the ground that i can see. i see a dust devil on the ground. that is sometimes called a suction spot. that suction spot can be the evidence of a brand new tornado forming. that will happen. a new tornado can form whether you lose the first tornado itself. the first big cone. when that goes away, a new one