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Four years and it was during that time. this is the same exact path, martin. moore, oklahoma, i covered that storm. moore, oklahoma, was leveled. i can't emphasize enough. this is a very heavily populated area full of subdivisions and schools and churches and malls and things like that. it is packed. moore got hit so badly during that infamous tornado on may 3rd so many years ago and that's where a majority of the people died. you hear the e perts talking about an ef-4, ef-5. that's 160 to 200 mile per hour circulating winds. the only way to hide from something like that is underground. >> yea...

Storm hit, to leave the area if they did not have underground sheltering in place. we hope that that's the case. we hope the death toll does not resemble that may 3rd tornado. >> mike, was that the exact path of the may 3rd tornado? was that the -- >> this was just along the exact path and then as it came deeper into moore, it's a little bit on the southern sides of the may 3rd path. and i don't want to make comparisons too much to may 3rd, just in terms of, well, what i'll say is this tornado i believe is wider. we're going to find there are many more structures hit compared to may 3rd from w...

Working frantically looking here. where do you begin? i mean, that's the question. where do you begin on something like this? >> mike, how long was that tornado on the ground? >> well, it was on the ground for just under one hour, linda. it set down just southwest of -- west of new castle then went to that large wedge. i think the peak width on it was about a mile and a half wide. that's one thing i'm noticing looking at these pictures is the debris path appears to be significantly wider through moore than may 3rd,1999. most of this path is on the southern sides of the may 3rd path. >> we just...

Tornado warning does continue south of harrah right now and to the southwest of mccloud. it's recycling. this is the same storm. still has a tornado warning on it. the hook now is right on i-40 and it is heading for the area near the fire lake casino. again, mccloud, harrah and up toward meeker and prage and dale and north shawnee. hook with a tornado warning in effect. that storm is still very dangerous and may put down an additional large tornado as it comes through southeast oklahoma county, the northern pottawattamie county and southern lincoln county. back to you. >> all right. mike, we h...

Ago. tornado warning for garvin county. tornado reported near bray, oklahoma. that one is heading for maysville and pauls valley down south. say that again? and you have reid's stream right there. there's reid looking at it. there's the tornado. do we have reid on the getner? there's reid's stream. this is a different tornado. that appears to be on the ground. this is reid timmer down by bray, oklahoma. i'm going to text him right now to have him call so he can give us an update on this storm that is down in the elmore city, lindsay, pauls valley, maysville, vilma, alma area. that appears to b...