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Around 80 miles an hour are which will do plenty of damage and probably still some hail maybe between golf ball and tennis ball size. very big hail. but the heaviest rotation is not being picked up any longer so the tornado warni'gs dropped there. that is certainly great news. >> shepard: no doubt it is. back to st. louis if we could. it sounds like there is an imminent threat there. >> yeah, and i think the storm is crossing probably right about over the river right now and getting back crossing into missouri, most of st. louis is on the kansas side and now cutting over -- excuse me, missouri...

If you look at the interstates which go north and south directions out of the city, just a parking lot. i know you have been watching it on local television. it was heartbreaking. as the storms are crossing over the interstate hopefully up in the air, not down on the ground, we can't know. it was like a parking lot there. it was unbelievable. >> it was. i literally called the commissioner and, of course, he was saying i got so many people out right now. we got the lights and sirens and carp and down the highways and highway patrol cars and local law enforcement putting their own lives at peril...

This is exactly what the authorities had hoped would not the happen. once the storm get there's it is too late and that is a line of cars that stretches for miles to the north and south on the freeway there as people are trying to get out of town. and frankly, they waited too long. i-44 is the north and south -- well, there are a number of north and southbound interstates. i-44 is to the west of oklahoma city. i-35 just to the east of oklahoma city and that is southbound there on i-35 and i-44 north and southbound people just trying their best to get out of town. frankly, once they hit the roa...

>> because oklahoma city was so prepared for this. the one thing about it is i got some messages on twitter and facebook people saying well, it is perfectly sunny skies and generally you might get a 45 minute to an hour notice whether you see the storms is building. today the storms is went from nothing to an incredibly strong severe storm within about 15 minutes to the the west of oklahoma city. >> shepard: this is what we were seeing a moment ago is the trailing edge it is my understanding of the storm. at any rate, these cars that we were watching were on interstate 35 and highway 77 which ...

An enormous cloud with a leading edge that produced we can't even count how many tornadoes. weather çpotters around storm chase hes watching as tornadoes form first here and there. some in the oklahoma city area itself. some in the suburbs. lot of damage to the west. the highway patrol is reporting numerous people hurt in traffic crashes and actually the wind turning over vehicles. six semi trucks specifically reported in one area to the west of the city. a weather channel crew had damage to one of its vehicles and some of its people we are told by our storm chasers on the ground have been te...