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Storm chasers

It just went through something. I can’t tell what it went through. It had to be a house or a barn because there’s a lot of debris flying through the air. Now we are about half a mile from the actual circulation on the ground. And it’s a very narrow funnel, but it’s rotating very strongly Gary. Wow! That is absolutely awesome.

Weather office

Who, Who, Wow! It’s extremely dangerous, so you folks in the path of this tornado, get below ground.

Storm chasers

Bunch of debris going through the air now. Bunch of debris. Gary, we’re about a mile south east of it now. It hit a house or something. It’s on the ground right ahead of us up here. Man, there is debris flying everywhere. We’re getting leaves falling out of the sky right now around us. Gary, this thing has a very intense circulation right at the ground level. It’s not very big around. I don’t see any structures right now in the direct path of it, but, I wouldn’t like to be in the path of it.

Narrator

At the National Weather Center near Oklahoma city at noon. The radar inside these domes had shown that a severe storm was heading towards the state capital

Weather office

It’s a pretty populated area, right here. We’re concerned about that area. Several reports of small tornadoes right in the vicinity of that storm.

Narrator

Oklahoma is known as ‘Tornado Alley’. Huge clouds build up as warm moist air moving north from the Gulf of Mexico collides with cold dry air funneled south from Canada. Massive super cell thunderstorms are the result. The effects of the earth’s spin together with high level air currents cause the super cell to rotate. That energy inside the storm can create a tight, powerfully spinning funnel. When this impacts the ground a tornado is born.

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