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Will be up in towards the joplin pittsburg area. this is up from tulsa, right up the turnpike toward i-44, right towards joplin, missouri. you have pieces of plywood on the ground, shingles on the ground. a 60-mile-per-hour wind will blow that debris around and create a lot of damage again. and people have to be out of that disaster zone tonight before the weather gets there. because storms that have already tore up all those houses, leaving everything just debris to be picked up by the next storm, even if it s not a tornado, and i probably think it probably won t be a tornado for joplin, things will calm down a little bit by then, but debris will blow around and all the crews need to be out of there. all the rescuers need to be out of there, because it s going to become a dangerous place tonight, john. chad myers for us in the severe weather center. he ll be there throughout the night as we track the storms in oklahoma. as chad mentioned, they re moving on to other places, including ....
chad meyers is in the severe weather center. let s get right to chad on oklahoma. chad? we have a line of weather from kansas to texas right across the red river. we have multiple i counted eight a little bit ago severe thunderstorms all rotating that could put down tornadoes at any time. we do know that big tornadoes have been on the ground, tornadoes in excess of 150 miles per hour to the west of oklahoma city. one just to the west of el reno into oklahoma. that s just a suburb of oklahoma city and on toward guthrie. tornado emergency down near norman, oklahoma and more with a big tornado on the ground and another one down near washington. that tornado has been on the ground for a while. it is going to be one long night, because it is certainly not over, and in fact, with the heat of the day just now being 6:00 central time, it is just getting going for places east of i-35 into tulsa and eventually, yes, that word joplin right there, as the weather just rakes ac ....