http://kfor.com/on-air/live-streaming
(link to live news feed)
Prayers heading out your way. Watching schools be demolished to the foundation…very, very sad.
Another tornado on ground in far NE Tulsa…
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
410 PM CDT MON MAY 20 2013
OKC105-113-131-143-147-202130-
/O.CON.KTSA.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-130520T2130Z/
NOWATA OK-OSAGE OK-ROGERS OK-TULSA OK-WASHINGTON OK-
410 PM CDT MON MAY 20 2013
…TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR
WASHINGTON…NORTHERN TULSA…NORTHWESTERN ROGERS…EASTERN OSAGE AND
SOUTHWESTERN NOWATA COUNTIES…
AT 408 PM CDT…A LARGE AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TORNADO WAS LOCATED
NEAR VERA…MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS LIFE THREATENING TORNADO
IS CAPABLE OF EXTREME DAMAGE!
SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE…VERA…
RAMONA AND OOLOGAH.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
A LARGE AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND! THIS IS A
LIFE THREATENING SITUATION!
A huge tornado roared through a heavily populated area just south of Oklahoma City on Monday, apparently creating substantial damage in and around the city of Moore. The tornado was said to be an EF3 monster – 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile wide – and traveling at 140 to 160 mph. A tornado warning was issued for metropolitan Oklahoma City, and local television followed the twister with live video. Some 170,000 people were said to be within the tornado warning area.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/20/oklahoma-city-tornado-2013_n_3308384.html
Link to additional live video of the tornado coverage and tracking
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http://www.mercurynews.com/…-flameout-foreigners
A huge tornado roared through a heavily populated area just south of Oklahoma City on Monday, apparently creating substantial damage in and around the city of Moore. The tornado was said to be an EF3 monster – 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile wide – and traveling at 140 to 160 mph. A tornado warning was issued for metropolitan Oklahoma City, and local television followed the twister with live video. Some 170,000 people were said to be within the tornado warning area.
http://kfor.com/on-air/live-streaming/
Tornado was 2.25 miles wide at its widest. Looking at damage, I think this will be upgraded to a EF4 if not EF5. This looks worse than the May 3, 1999 tornado that hit Moore, OK. This is much worse.
Here in NW AR we’re hoping to avoid this tonight…
Not sure where exactly in NW AR you are at, but there are a few storm systems in southern OK that might graze you or pass just north of you. Besides your local news, here is a good link for following the storm systems with tornado activity or possible activity.
Yeah EF3 was/is too low. At least a EF4 maybe/probably a EF5.
But hey, it was from Mercury News in San Jose/Silicon Valley. What do they know of Tornados. Lol
With the population density of Moore, I just hope people were able to get into appropriate shelter. This could be worse than Joplin. Send our thoughts and prayers to those affected. Lots of lives completely upended in the matter of a few minutes.
MSM reporting two dozen elementary school victims are being extracted from the rubble. Ugh.
That is horrible. Ugh.
As I suspected, sounds like this will be upgraded to EF5. Someone mentioned 300 mph winds on KFOR-TV.
If you are near Fayetteville/Lowell hopefully you are in shelter.
They’re reporting this is roughly 3x more destruction than what occurred there several years ago, but I would think people were better prepared this time around; hoping that translates into far fewer fatalities.
I wonder what kind of shelter system they use in the schools there. What kind of shelter can withstand that kind of energy? I presumed this shelter would be underground, but it sounds as though they were huddled up along an interior cinderblock wall.
Yeah I don’t believe they had a underground shelter in the school. From what I have heard they were in hallways. 
Reports of finding debris from Moore all the way in Tulsa.
Reports that the children in the school were found in water and drowned. Ugh.
Cries for help ended 15-20 min ago at the school. Ugh.
?
In water, inside the school?
Saw some live images on our breakfast TV here in Oz.
Our thoughts are with everyone in the affected areas, some very scary pictures coming through.
Terrible time for a tornado to hit with all the kids in school. Here’s hoping they make it through.