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The city to get to their families. if you're driving along the road and you see the tornado, it was very difficult to see. your only hope of seeing it when you had lightning flashes like this or when the tornado would hit power lines and you would get power flashes from it. it was the only thing it was truly visible. if you don't know the side streets and if you don't know a way to veer off you're not going to have a chance as the locals would to outrun or get away from the particular storm. what you can see in this image is the lights from the cars. again, you can see the flashes of light tha...

Just to the west of the norman campus. >> up in his news chopper pilot wells can see the storm approaching from the west. >> it's two and a half miles for the university of oklahoma. and you know, you see a lot of people out on the streets. so my thought is these guys need to get covered and out of the way. >> captain david tysher is out in the city when the sudden appearance of a tornado takes us by surprise. >> we did have a little bit of a warning, but not a whole lot. >> when the storm first hits officers are told to return to the station. >> this is normally a rallying incase communicatio...

Power flashes. coming to the ground right now. this is it. folks, you've got to be ready for it. mike, i've got three coming down on me and power flashes. i've got trees coming down on me. i have to back out of here. back it out, mike, back it out. >> joining us now is weather channel meteorologist alex wilson. alex, is the worst over? >> you know, i think as far as the rain goes for oklahoma city, no. and we still have active warp warnings, tornado warnings, but the rain still continues to fall in oklahoma city. 39 reports of tornados, two funnel clouds, 37, i should say, tornado reports comi...

One woman lost her life, and a dozen others were injured. some of them critically after the storm tore through the southwest part of town. here's what it looked like as it was moving in. and here's how it sounded to be a reporter driving right into it -- >> caller: coming to the ground right now. this is it -- you got to be ready for it. i got trees coming down on me and power flashes. i got to back out of here. >> that is terrifying. it was not just oklahoma. cameras found this funnel cloud forming in byron, nebraska. that's a village of just 83 people. in kansas cars were swerving to avoid f...

There will be more to come and many more by saturday. >> we have a -- >> debris launching through the sky. >> mike we have a roof that just launched through the air here. i don't know where it came from. >> tornadoes wreaking havoc yet again across the plains. >> large tornado. >> residents in the heart land. >> i got trees coming down on me and power flashes. i got to back out of here. >> waking up to disaster as the red cross and emergency personnel begin combing through the neighborhoods damaged or destroyed in oklahoma kansas and nebraska. >> i saw two clouds meet as one and then we could ...