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>> it is moving east. >> reporter: got it. >> county line and rock well between reno and 15th street is where it is right now. this is a tornado emergency. for whitewater bay, state fair park, south 15th, south 29th, south 44th, all the way down to south 59th. counsel, rock well, mcarthur, meridian, portland, may, western and santa fe avenues down to oklahoma city. tornado emergency. >> you are listening to live tornado coverage from kfor, nbc affiliate in oklahoma city. south oklahoma city is n...

>> you can see a clear spot wrapping around the back side. very low wall cloud with rapid inflow from the right side. i would treat it as a tornado. >> this is a tornado emergency for south oklahoma city. this is emily sutton here. this is a likely tornado. go, emily, near union city out west. >> reporter: which way is this moving right now. >> this is east southeast. half way through emerald city and el reno. >> we have a live view of it. we are located near union city one mile north of union c...

All this scud was coming up into it. this is not a tornado. this is a rapidly rotating wall cloud. just so well go through all the steps. this could be the first thing. the precursor to a tornado but this is the part of the storm that would tornado. this is on the back side of a super cellular tornadic storm where the tornado would be. to the northeast of your -- northeast of purcell there is hail coming down. back where we are there is just wind moving straight into this cell. this is where peo...

What im seeing right now. >> spencer joins us now on the phone, a storm chaser. spencer, where are you and what are you seeing? >> i am about three miles south of cole, oklahoma which is southeast of blanchard. we have a rapidly rotating wall cloud that developed in the last ten minutes and it looks like it could drop a tornado at any time. >> where are you in relation to -- we know that -- we heard from one of our local affiliates that there looked to be a tornado on the ground east of perkins ...

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. im 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 ...

Particular cell. also severe thunderstorm cell with a tornado warning on it here southwest of norman is the main area of rotation. the warning, the warn cell is moving to the east. also, around 25 miles per hour blanchard and purcell in the cross hairs here. over 22,000 people affected here and this is the same cell that came out of chickashay, the same area where chad myers is right now tracking this storm. weve had reports of a lowering wall cloud. no reports of a tornado yet. certainly could ...

Our affiliate kfor in oklahoma. lets take a listen. >> see if were getting any kind of rotation on the ground but that is going to be, like you said, south and east of perkins and south of the river right there. were kind of getting a little lowering right there if youll take a look at just the center very top of the screen, one little defined area poking its nose out there. as far as coming into the storm we have just, you know, a long shelf coming in, feeders, bands coming in. just to the nort...

Two people want to talk to. first, i want to bring in bob frichie, he is a storm chaser talking to me southwest of moore, oklahoma. bob, if you can hear me, im told as were looking at these clouds, tell me what do the clouds look like to you in person? >> yeah. im just sitting actually just to the west of chickasha looking north at a pretty organized wall cloud, basically, just a decent super cell thunderstorm with sustained rotation after a little bit and a pretty nicely organized wall cloud. >...

Which the tornado usually forms. its just a lowered area of cloud base underneath the storm itself. and when you see the wall cloud, thats generally -- not necessarily a precursor to tornado development, but its just one of those signs that lets us chasers and anyone else watching know that the storm itself is strong and attempting to acquire better low-level rotation and could put down a tornado. >> okay, could. and the other word you used, healthy. you said its still sitting there, its not mov...

We definitely dont want to see a repeat of what happened last week at all. but as were watching it here, like i said, its not -- its not really ramping up yet in terms of strength, but it definitely could at any time. >> kevin rolfs, we know youre watching, we are, as well. thank you so much for calling in as were looking at multiple now, multiple live pictures. he describes the wall cloud forming under the clouds and that is from which a tornado can spawn. again, tornado warnings as this system...