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Well I blew that forecast!\u00a0 Currently there is a train of supercell storms marching across Oklahoma and now developing down in to Texas.\u00a0 While not a closed “line” per say, the storms are closely spaced and moving quickly to the northeast.\u00a0 Several have the potential for producing tornadoes at this time!<\/p>\n
At least one tornado has been confirmed by storm chaser Jeff Snyder, who reports it was on the ground for 10 min.\u00a0 It appears at this time this tornado struck Edmond, OK with a large area without power and damage reports coming in.\u00a0 As of this writing no injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n
3 tornado watches are currently in effect in Oklahoma and Texas at this time.\u00a0 These storms are also producing hail as large as tennis balls.<\/p>\n
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I will update this post on the tornado damage as I get more firm information.<\/p>\n
UPDATE 4:32pm CST<\/strong>: Reports are schools in the area stopped school buses and kids were held in the schools.\u00a0 No reports of schools being hit at this time.\u00a0 Hearing reports of roofs torn off houses and similar damage.\u00a0 Power lines and tree limbs down all over the area hindering efforts for emergency crews to get in the area.<\/p>\n UPDATE 5:00pm CST:<\/strong> Initial touchdown appears to have been in the Rockwall & NW Expressway.\u00a0 Tornado appears to have lifted then and touched down some distance northeast of there, perhaps in the Quail Springs area?\u00a0 Rockwall & 150th area is being mentioned a lot. No serious injury reports surfacing yet.\u00a0 A good portion of northern Oklahoma City area is without power.\u00a0\u00a0 Report is there might have been a multiple vortex tornado south of Stillwater as well.\u00a0\u00a0 This is all still VERY breaking news info and subject to inaccuracies.<\/p>\n UPDATE 5:11pm CST:<\/strong> Associate Press is reporting six homes were damaged or destroyed near Edmond. No casualties were immediately reported. Schoolchildren were being kept in locked down schools until the storm passed. Some structural damage was also reported in northwest Oklahoma City. One wall of a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant collapsed and windows were blown out, but no injuries were reported.\u00a0 Signs were stripped and cars were damaged in the parking lot. Power lines, debris and debris littered an intersection in northwest Oklahoma City, and motorists were told to stay in their cars until crews could clear the power lines.\u00a0 Oklahoma Gas and Electric spokesman Brian Alford said about 14,000 customers lost power. Lara O’Leary, a spokeswoman for Emergency Management Services Authority, said one injury had been reported so far. The person was cut by from a window.<\/p>\n UPDATE: 7:37pm CST: <\/strong> Appears we have another confirmed tornado in Montague County, TX with one structure reported destroyed.<\/p>\n UPDATE: 9:08 PM CST:<\/strong> Lone Grove, OK in southern OK near Ardmore has been hit with a devatating tornado.\u00a0 Early reports from the Highway Patrol are that there are fatalities. No word on numbers yet.\u00a0 Easrly reports are a trailer park may have been destroyed as well as the UPS facility.<\/p>\n UPDATE:\u00a0 10:30 PM CST:<\/strong> 3 confirmed dead and up to 50 injured in the Lone Grove tornado.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well I blew that forecast!\u00a0 Currently there is a train of supercell storms marching across Oklahoma and now developing down in to Texas.\u00a0 While not a closed “line” per say, the storms are closely spaced and moving quickly to the northeast.\u00a0 Several have the potential for producing tornadoes at this time! At least one tornado […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32,31,33,30,26,21,29],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extreme-weather","tag-edmond","tag-february-10-2009","tag-montague-county","tag-oklahoma","tag-severe-weather","tag-texas","tag-tornadoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}