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Hour, so in 30, 35 minutes, where are you in relation to oklahoma city and moore, oklahoma? i m counting my thumb widths on my google map. we re now 14 miles from moore. and as can you also count the roadways. every major road in oklahoma is one mile apart. and so that tornado on the ground is still to the northwest of moore so where it was hit so very hard. i normal track for a toward tornado would be from the southwest to the northeast. this hasn t been on that same track all day. even only a few miles to the south for every ten miles it moves to the east. so that is kind of a backwards way for a storm to come in. it can catch people off guard. it could keep moving to the east and to the north of moore into southwest oklahoma city, into that right where the airport ....
The tornado form from just a small funnel cloud to then it became then there was swirling down below that and the funnel cloud went up and down, then it just became like a cylinder that we could see from the wall cloud down to the ground. it was just like a cylinder and then within like five seconds, it just exploded into this to the f-5 that it turned out to be, and there was debris clouds on both sides of the tornado. and my niece who lived in mustang, melissa jones and her sister, lexi and jaycee jones, they were all on the phone with me and they were telling me they were watching it on television and telling me as i was on the phone to them to get in the shelter, it s hitting your neighborhood right now. that was when i realized, then i saw the debris snowing down, i was mesmerized by the force of nature and the roar of the ....
Off across the area now. if you hear the sirens, you need to take cover. although right now the storm is regenerating. in three minutes, this could be back to that ef-2 or 3 storm and maybe even stronger. just to bring people up to speed, the national weather service says that at 6:22, roughly nine minutes ago, 6:22 central time, a large violent tornado was reported near and just east of highway 81 near el reno, oklahoma. that s about 30 miles west of oklahoma city moving straight east at 25 miles per hour. an area of mustang, the city of mustang should take cover and in addition we have word that will rogers airport in oklahoma city has been evacuated. ben mcmillan is joining us on the phone. he s chasing storms south of el reno. ben, what are you seeing and where are you, exactly? we re two or three miles southwest of the city. we re coming on structures that have been hit. we re looking for injured now. ....
Here. there s a the national weather service has tweeted that at 7:22 p.m. eastern, a violent tornado has been spotted east of highway 81 near el reno. we have word that will rogers airport has been evacuated. this is obviously a very, very serious storm, just to reiterate for anyone tuning in now. you re looking at footage of kfor in the oklahoma city area. there are several tornadoes that have been spotted in the area surrounding oklahoma city. population is about 18,000. several funnels, multiple vortices tornado. then we have on the phone george howl that was moved from moore, oklahoma, where he was reporting all day for cnn. moore, oklahoma, so ....
A little bit to the southeast. so for this to move into oklahoma city proper along i-40, it would have to go a little bit further to the north. i believe this is probably turning a little further to the south. if it continues, that could take it into south oklahoma city or maybe even populated areas around moore. but from the northwest, not from the southwest or from the west like the storm took the track it took two weeks ago. all right. chad, stay with us. we re also going to bring in storm chaser dave holder. he joins me on the phone. he is also in the el reno, oklahoma area. dave, what are the conditions like where you are? we are just watching a developing strong tornado right now. we re southwest of el reno by the we re sitting there at the el reno air park watching. it had multiple vortices which is a sign of a very strong tornado. it is moving southeast. we do actually have quite a bit of traffic on the road here when ch is probably not a good thing. ....