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Close to these tornadoes. chad myers is going to be back with us in a moment. we ll check in. look how wide that tornado is near chickasha, oklahoma. many facebook pages already are full with heart-breaking pleas for word of loved ones right now, like little 16-year-old skyular logsdon, missing in that tornado that tore missouri apart. my heart goes out to all these parents and loved ones that are missing right now. by all accounts, as many as 1,500 people are still missing in joplin. that number is likely to change as the days go on. in the meantime, it is agonizing for the people who are looking for their loved ones. you re looking for a loved one? yes. we re looking for mark lindquist. joplin radio station kzrg takes calls trying to match people desperate for information with their missing loved ones. ....
Trying to pick through something. it s an interesting intellectual hold on for a moment, brian. we ve got live pictures coming in courtesy of one of our affiliates in oklahoma. look at this. this is a live picture of a tornado that s moving closer and closer and closer. wow, let s get chad myers on to explain. let s listen to our affiliate for a moment. blanchard, the ponlt of this coming your way. it s a stove pipe now, little bit bigger. what direction are you driving? we re driving west, looking to north/northwest. so you re on 62. this looks like it s been going through parts of chickashay, is that right? i can see larger debris in there. it s moved through structures. are you guys safe? we are safe. it s to our northwest. we re getting strong rfb now. ....
So now from piedmont right there on the map and then into the northwestern sections of oklahoma city property and into edmond. maybe up towards gut rhrie and it s a long, long time friend of mine and when he says that there s something on the ground, you can believe that. he s an outstanding meteorologist and mike morgan, i worked with him as well. the entire area there is in danger from piedmont to the northwest across the northwest expressway into edmond. you need to be taking cover now. a tornado that could be 150 miles per hour. chad, i want to play that video one more time right now. because you see these utility poles, they are ripping up like tooth picks. let s watch and listen. you can see the front of it. everything that is dark in between there, mike, is the tornado. it s on the ground and on the west side of piedmont. ....
It s over northwest piedmont right here. it s centered right here. that s going to be at 15th, edmond road, 33rd and out there at piedmont road is where it is right now. over 200 mile-per-hour wind shear. that s a violent tornado. there is a new tornado warning for grady county. you can see what is going on in oklahoma right now. what a disaster unfolding. chad myers, you understood a lot more than i did. this moved in from across i-40 and north of elreno and half a mile wide. we knew that it stayed that big. it was wrapped in rain. there s another killer tornado. it is going to cross highway and ....
We knew this was going to be another major tornado day, and clearly it is. this is the live pictures we re getting in near chickasha right now. wow, that is getting bigger. courtesy of our affiliate. let me play chad had a good idea. we ll play that video of what happened just a little while ago in oklahoma. look at this. i ll let the storm chaser describe what he s seen. mike? yes, go. tths a half mile wedge, another killer tornado. it went across highway 81 when it re-intensified and almost got us. it intensified right on top of us. it s amazing. half mile wide tornado. it crossed gregory road. it s going to cross northwest expressway in about a minute. it s crossing northwest expressway right now. right now, it s crossing northwest expressway. it s a massive tornado, about a half mile wide, no doubt about it. looks just like it did an hour and a half ago. deadly, deadly, deadly tornado, mike, coming down the northwest ....