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All of south oklahoma city and moore directly in the path, this instant. go ahead, jeff. can you -- >> yeah, i'm watching here, i'm watching the wind, i'm watching this violent rotation, see, there's a power flash, there's another power flash, and it happened real quick in the rain. i had two power flashes, winds are continuing to increase out of the northeast. i'm pointsing northwest and the winds are out of the northeast at 80 miles an hour, ba3z to the west. gun, it's going back -- i'm at i-35 and i-235. the tornado looks like it's missing, looks like the tornado is missing downtown oklahom...

Visibility. but no power flashes. that means not anything on the ground. right now, i don't see power flashes. that would be the only indicator. was that a power flash or lightning? >> mike bennett talking about circulation on the northern side of shawnee. mike, would you verifier center of rotation is near shawnee near i-40? >> hard for us to figure out, mike. one thing we had a hard time getting bearings on the storm since we been here because of that. it's, i don't know, mike. it is hard for us to identify any area of this rotation, we lose the visibility. >> that's mike bennett, who is fin...

Funnels out, has a big lowering, then you can almost make out a v shape on the bottom where that tornado is physically on the ground destroying power lines and everything in its way. you can see big power flashes there, it is continuing to track east, and mike, this is fixing to get in a bad area, because we're coming back into housing additions and more residential part of town. look at the power flash on the far right of the screen if you look in there, look at that. it is a way out there. the wind in front of this thing has to be just whipping. so this thing is definitely not to play with. ...

Storms. it is a very warm air mass ahead of it with temperatures in the 80's and 90's and dew points in the upper 60's and 70's an indication that the air is juicy and ripe for thunderstorms. in this area of the country this is where we see super cell tornadoes. we have storm chasers on the ground. we have incredible radar showing where the storms are firing, so, fortunately or not we have helicopters in the air giving us the live pictures. i would hope that everyone involved in the area is take shelter. you saw the flash in the distance. that was reasonable another power flash. a power line. ...

This is the eastern most storm that came through the south side of the dallas metro area, right along 45 and i-20. for times there, you really couldn't see much of anything. often time, when you've got very humid environment, the storms will become what we call rain wrapped. and they become difficult to see. we saw a little power flash in there which would not be at all uncommon with the very strong winds, ripping up power lines and tearing up trees. we saw some large limbs and perhaps even trees being torn up with the storms. there is inflow. there is air being drawn into the center of the st...