there s damage, damage is eminent with this storm. absolutely. i m not surprised one bit that we are depicting debris out of this. as we mentioned, tree, farm equipment, it s a very hilly area. so we are likely going to pick up all sorts of things. i can sooner see that right now within the radar. also want to just touch base on, not only this storm, also anymore storms that develop, which we are beginning to see. more storms develop just back with our affiliate coverage in a moment. live affiliate reporters from our affiliate koco in oklahoma. get now to our chief meteorologist chad myers on the phone. chad, a huge super cell and it has been whipping its way across oklahoma. you saw the live pictures on the air. described by the chopper pilot as a half-mile wide. reporter: right. you also heard that local meteorologist from coco, my home affiliate when i worked oklahoma. he talked about debris field. being the doppler radar, seeing
of it, very close to norman. umm s i m seeing potential for both of these to rotate. if they do, that will be in a much more populated area. the chopper pilot is not in position to take a look at those cells but i m watching them right here on doppler radar and will continue to watch them for you and keep you advised. chad, if you were looking just before 6:00 eastern time when we saw the tornado ripping through a neighborhood there, you saw the power lines being pulled up, you saw the sparks. describe to us what s going on, in that situation? well that was very close to the town of fallous, still northeast of oklahoma city. this current storm you re seeing with the word carney and all of those circulations is still to the northeast of oklahoma city and not moving back to the city. moving into the rural areas between oklahoma city and tulsa. so all of a sudden you see this tornado, and even away from the stove pipe, the vortex itself, power lines flashing, green,
this kind of activity. it s the end of the month and things are starting to pick up. i m fredricka whitfield. much more, don lemon joining me now. this is an extraordinary image we re seeing. a real confluence of events here that continues to threaten millions of people. fred, it s been amazing to watch you and to watch the live picture, and to see a tornado actually on the ground hitting homes as we re speaking. live coverage of this tornado activity right now on cnn. fredricka, thank you very much. an interesting evening and it s going to get more interesting. this is serious, folks. this is serious now. we have been telling you since thursday or friday that there would be tornado activity happening this weekend, and that there would be severe weather. and now, here it is. many people facing the brunt of it right now in oklahoma, and if you were not watching cnn, you missed it. and you will probably see more of this, unfortunately, for the people in that area as we
completely demolished. right. absolutely. that s right. when you see these storms picking up and tracking, picking up, they can skip over homes. what we re seeing in the video of the damage, of course, widespread trees down. a lot of times you can aumtz see the direction, when you see the direction the storm came through. looking at video. we do know this is confirmed tornado, as we come back over to our graphic, we re looking at, don, and hopefully you can see this. looking at two areas. to the right of your screen and bottom left. our velocity. we can see, there is our tornado. this is norman. keep in mind, now, red. when you re looking at the different directions. red away, green towards. this is an area of indication that shows us where we have rotation on the ground. now, as we go back over to our graphic here and as you said, we want to track about how the storm is going to potentially affect more people, and the direction of it, and your looking at some of the meter ol
very scary for the people who are facing this, who have to be in this path. and as we ve been telling you, or fredricka whitfield, jennifer delgado, they ve both been telling you, you need to get to a place of safety, if you re in this particular area. cnn s jennifer delgado, meteorologist, has been following this. jennifer, unprecedented to see. a huge system we have been warning people about, and now it has come to fruition. absolutely right. we see these tornadoes popping up, these big super cells in parts of oklahoma as well as kansas all the tile. especially in the month of may as well as into april. the month of may, fairly quiet. typically we seen about 325 tornadoes for the month. right now we re running well below average. now, what we re looking at right now, this is our radar. we zoom into the area. oklahoma city, giving you an idea. then this is the area we re talking about. i think this is where we do have the tornado warning in place until 5:15. now what we re going to