Live Video on CNN, Tornado touchdown in Hennessey, OK

[MadBadger]

Amazing footage thay have via Helicopter of a tornado and the destruction it is causing. The video is running live.

[eleny]

1. It appears like it tore through 3 large barns

[RL3AO]

2. Looks great on radar

[Wilber_Stool]

3. Big compound.

I wonder what it was? Horses, chickens, swine? Storage, I hope.

[Wilber_Stool]

17. I was a hog farm...........n/t

[Occulus]

52. You were? n/t

[Wilber_Stool]

55. When I was very young......n/t

[uppityperson]

54. Replaying that video. Lots of strong winds, windborn debris.

Those poor pigs. I remember a line from my childhood tornado that a boy was brought to the emergency room with a picket fence through his chest. Yes, he died, as did several others in his family when their lightly built house was blown to bits, along with the rest of the neighborhood.

[MadBadger]

4. Another Tornado has now formed.

[tishaLA]

6. wow. amaziing

[RL3AO]

5. New radar

[Xenotime]

44. I didn't know they were so colorful.

[DerekJ]

7. Goodness .. Look at that thing.

[DerekJ]

10. Did it just flatten a house?!!

[DerekJ]

21. wrong place

[Wilber_Stool]

8. Just missed a farm with

two large silos by 1/4 mile. This is fucking amazing.

[RL3AO]

9. Hook more pronounced this scan.

[Bozita]

11. Finally, something useful from a news helo.

Fascinating stuff!

[K Gardner]

13. Wonder how far away they actually are from that thing.. kinda scary.

[madokie]

15. The pilot said he is trying to stay about 2 miles away

[K Gardner]

12. I came over to the Sane DU to see if anyone else was watching this.. wow.

[RL3AO]

14. Another tornadic cell to the north.

[RL3AO]

16. The one that hit the barn was probably an EF3.

[Bozita]

18. That hog farm really got hit.

The roofs simply peeled back like lids on cans of sardines. The power is incredible.

[tishaLA]

19. another one!

[MadBadger]

20. W are seeing another one try to form,.

[DerekJ]

22. It's like it has a life of its own!!

[MuseRider]

23. It has been crazy

here the last few days. That was great to watch, for the first time in a long long time CNN is on my TV and it is actually showing something interesting and they can't spin this (pretty much spins itself).

I guess this should put to rest why it is not good to hide in an underpass or stay in your car.

[uppityperson]

25. Hope you and yours stay safe. You mean car/tornado stuff like this one...?

Included at first link is a list of communities that have been tornadoed. I hate winds. Hope you and yours stay safe.

http://www.saljournal.com/rdnews/story/web-weather-story-52408
An eastbound car on Interstate Highway 70 was picked up by a twister and carried 90 feet across the highway and dropped in a drainage ditch with 18 inches to three feet of water. The driver, a man, suffered a punctured lung, Lies said.

http://www.kwch.com/Global/story.asp?S=8375250&nav=menu486_2_1
Eyewitness News has confirmed a man and woman from Colorado have been found dead in a field west of the town of Cunningham. They were a young couple from headed to eastern Kansas to visit family. The car was picked up by a tornado and thrown about 150 yards from the highway into a wheat field. The field is north of a rest area on U.S. Highway 54 between Pratt and Cunningham.

Map of the Area

The driver remained inside the vehicle and the woman was ejected when the vehicle was hit. Pratt County Sheriff Vernon Chinn says emergency crews had been in the area last night looking for damage, but he said the car was too far out in the field for them to see even with spotlights.

[MuseRider]

31. Exactly!

I lived through this one http://www.tinyvital.com/Weather/StormChase/topeka66.htm and learned to respect the storms but I still am excited by them.

We have been really easy here in the NE section of the state. In the basement only a couple of times.

I know I have posted this before but it is so beautiful. This was taken from one of my pastures several years ago.

[uppityperson]

33. watching one form now. kwtv live

nw of Marshall. whooooeeeee

[MuseRider]

35. I must say

CNN is really doing something good for once. This really will help educate those who do not take them seriously and those who have never experienced them. That is quite a cell there and that hook echo is huge!

[uppityperson]

38. I'm watching Skynews 9 on computer, is this what CNN is showing?

This is incredible. Here it is finally warm and sunny.

[MuseRider]

40. The TV station

has more spotters and less stupid.

[uppityperson]

37. Mine, when I was 3.

F5 took out houses 200 ft away. I hate winds. This video from KWTV 9 is incredible.

[MuseRider]

41. That first shot

does not even look real! Wow. You never forget being close to one of these things.

[RL3AO]

24. The circulation has reorganized.

Watch out for a new tornado in the next few minutes.

[RL3AO]

29. Hey! I finally got one right.

[blonndee]

26. Channel 9 out of OKC always has the best video.

I lived there for four years. It's been weird to hear Mason Dunn, the pilot, talking to Gary England, the chief meteorologist, again.

Hope everyone stays safe. Seeing the pig farm torn apart by the tornado a little while ago was heartbreaking.

[uppityperson]

27. pictures from CNN, holy moly

[tishaLA]

28. this one is HUGE

[uppityperson]

30. link to OK tv with live coverage, oh my god

http://www.kwtv.com/

pig farm destroyed, Lacey, OK


near a windmill, Fort supply, OK

[MuseRider]

39. Great link, thanks. n/t

[uppityperson]

32. The lower the wall cloud, the more likely it will make a stronger the tornado?

Is that because it is closer to the ground and the upward wind doesn't have so far to go?

Incredible! there is another funnel forming.

[RL3AO]

34. Doesn't really have anything to do with it.

Example, the Elie, Manitoba F5.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upnIBFvhdlM

[uppityperson]

48. Thank you for giving up info on what radar/etc stuff means.

Appreciate it very much.

So they may be related but not nec causative?

[RL3AO]

36. I expect a new warning with this cell that includes NE Kingfisher and NW Logan Counties.

[uppityperson]

42. Wild. One wrapped in rain. 3 mi-ish w of Marshall

[blonndee]

43. Anyone else still watching?

I'm watching at the kwtv website, where you can hear the meteorologist and the pilot talking and see live video.

Tornado has gotten very big, HUGE hook.

http://www.kwtv.com/

Click on "Live Streaming" to watch news footage.

[uppityperson]

45. Incredible. Rain, lightening. Maybe something inside rain can't be seen.

[blonndee]

46. Multiple vortex...on ground

Dang, this brings back memories. It's almost like being back in OK.

[uppityperson]

47. way. That is big. Glad I am no longer in tornado-land.

Spring in ND, watching funnels go up and down. Summer, watching occasional ones. I hate them, find them fascinating.

[uppityperson]

49. People standing in the back of pickups with cameras in a thunderstorm/tornado area?

Doesn't seem like a very bright thing to do. Amateur tornado chasers, told to stay out of the way, don't clog up the roads, and don't stand in the back of a pickup since there is lightening happening.

[DS1]

50. Pigs on the wing

[blonndee]

51. Update - 6:05 pm CST: 2 tornadoes on ground near Orlando, OK

Still good video.

(I think I'm the only one still watching. I'm such an addict.)

[uppityperson]

53. Hi. Took a break, popping in to check it out again.

Different from Africam for sure.