Tornado Siren

[Karried]

There is nothing more scary to me than the sound of a tornado siren. I am still freaking out. On the phone on hold with tech support, Rick Mitchell says if you live in Edmond, you should be in your shelters ( what!!!) through it all, I kept the line with tech support! ha,ha... poor guy in India - my heart is still pounding!

[BailJumper]

I love the "it appears to be weakening - BUT, this could change at anytime folks! These things go through cycles and when you think it's over it could all of a sudden become deadly!!!!!! So, we will keep reporting until the sun comes out again."

[Karried]

Is anyone else frightened or is it just me? Hold me.

[CMSturgeon]

Yeah I'm at work inside a big building and had no idea until I caught the faint sound of the sirens. I was trying to look online but all of the news station websites are freezing I guess because of all the people looking. What exactly is going on here?

[Karried]

No warnings currently... we had a scare - tornado on the ground ( it happened so fast!) on the West side near Peidmont.. headed North but over now... winds pretty strong, power poles down on Kilpatrick Turnpike - a lot of power outages and phones out..

oops, wait- Hawley, Grant County, Tornado Warning as we speak.. North of Enid. sheesh, this is going to be a lonnnnggg night.

[CMSturgeon]

Karried, where do you live? Or, where are you at I mean? I live in Moore but am on North May. In the path of it all or something?

[Karried]

I have it set up to get this:

Issued at: 4:12 PM CDT 3/29/07, expires at: 4:45 PM CDT 3/29/07

The NWS in norman has issued a
tornado warning for: canadian county in central oklahoma, oklahoma county in central oklahoma,
Until 445 pm cdt
At 412 pm cdt, national weather service doppler radar indicated a severe thunderstorm capable of
producing a tornado 5 miles northwest of bethany, moving north at 35 mph.
Locations in the warning include bethany, piedmont and warr acres.
Take cover now. Leave mobile homes and vehicles. If possible, move to a basement or storm
shelter. Otherwise move to an interior room or hallway on the lowest floor. Stay away from
windows and outside walls.
Lat, lon 3552 9779 3548 9761 3573 9762 3573 9779

[Karried]

No, you're good right now.. It's way North of us.. just in case, get your bike helmet and bubble wrap ready and head down to the basement if you hear a siren.. looks okay right now at 4:55pm - I'll keep you advised.. lol

[CMSturgeon]

No, you're good right now.. It's way North of us.. just in case, get your bike helmet and bubble wrap ready and head down to the basement if you hear a siren.. looks okay right now at 4:55pm - I'll keep you advised.. lol

lol. Thanks, and keep me entertained too if you can. Customers dont pay their car payments in this weather.

[Intrepid]

NOAA Home Page is a good web site to visit for weather infomation.

[CMSturgeon]

Thankee Intrepid.

[escan]

Karrie-I'm at work in Stillwater...what do we look like here?

[Karried]

You're good in Stillwater.. no problems... just a quick mover with a lot of rain in Spencer headed towards Jones, tornado threat is way past you to the West near Cashion .... 10 sw of Wakita..

Isn't it amazing that this site can withstand all the traffic in this weather? I think it was the Platinum Members...

[ibda12u]

That was scary, I happened to have my office windows open enjoying the breeze and watching the crazy clouds, and then I heard the alarms, and everyone started scrambling to find a radio or radar. I'm hoping everyone's okay. And yes I think it'll be a long night tonight. One more stop this evening after this one, just hoping it doesn't get to rough downtown tonight.

[Intrepid]

Thankee Intrepid.

No problem.

Outta curiosity, what part of Moore do you live? I'm off of Santa Fe, on NW 5th. I can see Santa Fe Elem. from my drive way.

[ultimatesooner]

I love it, everytime I hear the sirens I want to go outside and look for the tornado

[Intrepid]

My dad said that the sirens blew in his neighborhood, which is near the corner of 89th and May. Nothing here in Moore though.

[bandnerd]

I was at school discussing with 3 students how we probably wouldn't have to deal with any tornadoes today...

Whoops. Sorry. I think we jinxed it.

Took all the remaining kids in the school into the hallway next to my room, grabbed my purse and my radio and plugged it into the hallway. No biggie. But it was the first time ever in my life that I have had to retreat to a dark interior hallway because of a tornado. 26 years, my streak is broken. But it was after school hours so maybe I won't count it Haha.

[Karried]

bandnerd, I imagine after the tornado hit the Arkansas high school it is even more scary.. I can't imagine the responsibility of taking care of frightened students.

[CMSturgeon]

No problem.

Outta curiosity, what part of Moore do you live? I'm off of Santa Fe, on NW 5th. I can see Santa Fe Elem. from my drive way.

I'm on Broadway, can see Moore Rexall Drug from my house. Oh, and Omelettes and Moore MMMMMMMMMMM. On my way here to work there was a car turned upside down on the interstate. I hope the people are ok, I havent seen any breaking news about it so I guess it wasnt too bad. I dont know what's going on but I-44 West in front of May is moving way slow, can see the traffic barely moving from my window.

[CMSturgeon]

A tornado producing 250 mph winds touched down in northwest Oklahoma City late Thursday afternoon. Damage has been reported, including at least two people critically injured, officials confirmed.

The twister had been reported in northwestern Oklahoma City. Witnesses said it touched down along or near the Kilpatrick Turnpike, and there have been reports of damage. Officials said cars were blown off the road way; however, no motorists were hurt.

EMSA reported that two people, who were inside a trailer home near Kilpatrick Turnpike and Wilshire Boulevard, were critically hurt.

Also, Oklahoma Gas & Electric reported as of about 4:30 p.m. that roughly 12,000 customers were without power. Almost 2,000 of those people are in Piedmont, where the storm passed.

The threat for twisters in the Oklahoma City has diminished; however, power poles were down near Carrier in Grant County and some outbuildings were damaged. As of 5:15 p.m., the storm was weakening and moving north of Wakita.

According to Oklahoma City Fire Chief Tony Young, the twister touched down near Wilshire Boulevard in northwest Oklahoma City and trekked along the Kilpatrick Turnpike. He said one motorist was injured there.

The twister stretched for four to five miles, he said.

Young added that Wilshire Boulevard, west of the Kilpatrick Turnpike, was closed as is from Wilshire Boulevard to Northwest Expressway, where almost 40 to 60 power lines were reported down.

Watch our livestream on koco.com.

Stay tuned to Eyewitness News 5 for details.

[Lauri101]

Channel 9 tv is showing all the debris now - looks like pretty significant damage along Morgan Rd, Sara Road, etc. One serious injury so far - guy was in mobile home that got picked up.

I know it's terrible of me to say this - but I'm glad that, for once, MWC was left alone! After two near misses (2 blocks and 6 blocks - 99 and 01) - not sure I wanted to try my luck again.

I hope everyone is ok!

[CMSturgeon]

Any rainbows yet?

[Keith]

I was driving north on Penn, near NW.36th, listening to my police scanner, when I heard a frantic voice on the EMSA channel. An EMSA paramedic was on the Kilpatrick Turnpike and frantically reported a funnel coming down from the clouds. As I was listening to him, I changed my radio station to 107.7 to listen to the weather. To my amazement, they were still playing music. It was so weird to hear an EMSA paramedic report a tornado on the ground before the news stations even had a chance to.

As I continued to listen, the paramedic reported the tornado on the ground near NW. Expwy & the Kilpatrick Turnpike. Just about that time, the sirens went off and the weather came on the radio. Then, I got stuck at the light at NW. Expwy and Penn.

Then, I am guessing the paramedic was fallowing the tornado, because he was reporting damage as it was happening, and watching cars get tossed off the road.

I got to my daughters school, and all of the students were huddled in the hallway. I picked up my daughter and we went home.

[Deni]

I was at work and I heard the sirens.. I mean it hit about a mile from me.. The shopping center is all Metal and I was kinda worried. But I think I am safer here than any other place.