Tornadoes hit OK City

AlphaSigOU · #1 05-08-2003, 08:51 PM

If you are in the NE Oklahoma and KC area -- HEADS UP!!!! -- Tornado blew away Moore (S of OKC) - again - and there is a report of a VERY large tornado near Osage City KS making a beeline towards Lawrence and the KC area. Stay tuned to the local news for the latest.

DFW area GCers... keep your eyes peeled on the local weather.

tinydancer · #2 05-08-2003, 09:06 PM

Yep, I'm watching out for any bad weather in the DFW area. Looks like most of the bad stuff is to the north right now.

Sure don't want any replay of the big tornado!!

Lizz (PNAM tinydancer)

Kevin · #3 05-08-2003, 09:07 PM

Missed my father by a few hundred feet as he was returning to OKC from Norman. Think he was somewhere on I-240.

RockChalk · #4 05-08-2003, 10:24 PM

A tornado missed me by about a mile. My fiance and I looked out the window and saw it forming. Scariest frickin' thing I've ever seen.

Hootie · #5 05-08-2003, 11:17 PM

RockChalk I'm glad it missed you! I HATE tornados cuz I personify them...If I saw one forming near me or my house I think first I'd gasp, then I'd cry, and then I'd be paralized with fear!

KEPike · #6 05-08-2003, 11:54 PM

Amazingly, the two that were in NE Oklahoma didn't cause too much damage. The OKC tornado made its way EXACTLY up I-44 to Tulsa, but died before getting into town.

I was mad because they didn't show Survivor! But the alternative would've been a whole lot worse.

Kevin · #7 05-09-2003, 12:39 AM

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Originally posted by KEPike
Amazingly, the two that were in NE Oklahoma didn't cause too much damage. The OKC tornado made its way EXACTLY up I-44 to Tulsa, but died before getting into town.

I was mad because they didn't show Survivor! But the alternative would've been a whole lot worse.

Damn I know.. at some point the news can just get to be too much. Feel sorry for those anchors and reporters stuck out in the weather having to repeat the same crap and warnings over and over.

Wish I could be Gary England and stay dry on the weather set saying how you'll "keep everyone advised".

AlphaSigOU · #8 05-09-2003, 01:36 AM

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Originally posted by ktsnake
Damn I know.. at some point the news can just get to be too much. Feel sorry for those anchors and reporters stuck out in the weather having to repeat the same crap and warnings over and over.

Wish I could be Gary England and stay dry on the weather set saying how you'll "keep everyone advised".

Better try and check to see if my fellow brethren at Moore Lodge #539 are doing all right. (Visited that lodge a couple of times when I was living up in OK... and BTW Gary England's also a Mason as well, from Seiling Lodge.)

Kevin · #9 05-09-2003, 01:44 AM

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Originally posted by AlphaSigOU
Better try and check to see if my fellow brethren at Moore Lodge #539 are doing all right. (Visited that lodge a couple of times when I was living up in OK... and BTW Gary England's also a Mason as well, from Seiling Lodge.)

I don't think we had any fatalities unless you count the guy that died of a heart attack after a lesser injury. OKC's pretty well on its toes when it comes to this stuff. It hit the GM plant down there but they only had one minor injury because they had prepared for this type of thing.

According to the Daily Oklahoman (not the best source but you take what you can get) 118 people are counted as injured, 20 critically.

chideltjen · #10 05-09-2003, 01:56 AM

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dude... we had tornado warnings in sacramento CALIFORNIA today. CALIFORNIA PEOPLE! and i was watching the news and there were all of these pictures of funnel clouds forming over by Arco Arena and the Airport. And there were these really funny looking clouds on the news that they say only appear in the Great Plains area.

all i gotta say is that It's FREAKING MAY!

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AlphaSigOU · #11 05-09-2003, 02:00 AM

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Originally posted by chideltjen
[hijack...well sorta]

dude... we had tornado warnings in sacramento CALIFORNIA today. CALIFORNIA PEOPLE! and i was watching the news and there were all of these pictures of funnel clouds forming over by Arco Arena and the Airport. And there were these really funny looking clouds on the news that they say only appear in the Great Plains area.

all i gotta say is that It's FREAKING MAY!

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Tornadoes have been known to occur in all fifty states, though it is extremely rare to see them in California. BTW, I used to live in South Natomas (aka the 'bathtub of Sacramento', until they built the new levee system), near the Arco Arena.

AlphaSigOU · #12 05-10-2003, 10:19 AM

Last night another tornado swept through the northern portions of Oke City and suburbs, damaged some airplanes and hangars over at Wiley Post Airport before heading northeast towards Tulsa. ktsnake, you OK??

Kevin · #13 05-10-2003, 10:25 AM

Yeah, I live in NE Edmond but wasn't very close to it. It went East, Northeast from around the Wiley Post area out past Frontier City on I-35.

No deaths, only 5 injuries reported.

We may have more today though

PM_Mama00 · #14 05-10-2003, 10:46 AM

For the love of tshirts.... WTF is up with all these tornadoes? We've been having some janked up weather in Metro Detroit but mainly severe thunderstorms. A few days ago a tornado hit about an hour or so north of us. We're supposed to have bad weather tonight, but right now the sky is bright blue on one side, hazy blue on the other. Ugh. But the lightening at 4am made my drive home a lil more exciting.... it was one of the coolest lightening shows I've ever seen.

Everyone in tornado alley, stay safe and obviuosly don't ignore any signals, if there are any.

Kevin · #15 05-10-2003, 10:49 AM

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Originally posted by PM_Mama00
For the love of tshirts.... WTF is up with all these tornadoes? We've been having some janked up weather in Metro Detroit but mainly severe thunderstorms. A few days ago a tornado hit about an hour or so north of us. We're supposed to have bad weather tonight, but right now the sky is bright blue on one side, hazy blue on the other. Ugh. But the lightening at 4am made my drive home a lil more exciting.... it was one of the coolest lightening shows I've ever seen.

Everyone in tornado alley, stay safe and obviuosly don't ignore any signals, if there are any.

Oklahoma has some excellent emergency management infrastructure. We have tornado sirens throughout most communities that let you know when to take cover (kind of like air raid sirens). I'm sure many other communities are similar. Our weather casters and storm chaser people basically tell us exactly where anything is. That's why we usually have such low death tolls as compared with other areas.

For example in 1999 when we had the F5 take out large chunks of Midwest city (that's an actual funnell over a mile wide) there were only 20 deaths.