00:00As we continue our team coverage, tracking these storms in the central and southern plains, we've got more.
00:04Yeah, let's check in now with storm chaser Aaron Jayjack. He joins us live from Cromwell, Oklahoma.
00:10Aaron, you have just been continuously moving to get to the best spot to give us the updates about these
00:15storms.
00:17Yeah, I'm just north of Cromwell, Oklahoma, and this behind me is a tornado-worn supercell.
00:22I just passed underneath it a little bit ago, came real close to producing a tornado.
00:26So I want you guys to take notice of this feature here. This is the wind, the RFD, the rain
00:30starting to wrap around and swing around the storm.
00:33So I think it's starting, potentially could produce a tornado here in the next couple of minutes.
00:37And this is a tornado-worn supercell racing off to the northeast right now, where we are under a tornado
00:42watch tonight until 10 p.m. Central Standard Time.
00:45This is a dangerous storm. It's moving, as I mentioned, north of Cromwell to the northeast right now.
00:50It is tornado-worn, so seek shelter if you are in the path of it. Back to you guys.
00:54Aaron J. Jack, thanks for the update, showing us on the ground as things develop.
01:00All right, we're going to move now to radar, give you a better picture of exactly what's going on.
01:04Tulsa, Oklahoma, we've been talking about this a lot because you are right in the path of a potentially very
01:10dangerous situation.
01:11Yeah, we have a tornado threat in the area of Tulsa. Look at the lightning there.
01:15It looks like maybe traffic a little more scarce at the moment, as it should be, given the tornado threat.
01:20People should be finding sturdy structures to be in.
01:23I just wanted to highlight Cromwell here to the south.
01:25This is where Aaron J. Jack is located.
01:27So there are two tornado-worn cells on the map right now, one moving through the Tulsa area and another
01:33one just north of J. Jack's location.
01:35But, again, we're tracking a confirmed tornado warning through the immediate northern city, northern neighborhoods of Tulsa.
01:44I don't want to say suburbs because it's in the city limits, but the worst of this tornado threat is
01:49clipping barely, barely, barely north of the downtown area.
01:53And now it's pooling up closer to Owosso at this hour.
01:56So here we have the tornado threat right over Turley and the north side of Tulsa.
02:02I'm going to shift the map just a little south so you can see there's downtown Tulsa.
02:06Here we have Interstate 44 up into Claremore.
02:11Here's Owosso.
02:12And the couplet here is right over the area of Turley.
02:16Inbound wind in green, outbound wind in the pink.
02:19And as we look at the velocity magnitude, we've got 75-mile-per-hour wind moving away from the radar
02:25site and 61-mile-per-hour wind moving toward the radar site.
02:29So we're looking at, again, 141-mile-per-hour gate-to-gate contrast there.
02:34Very impressive 141-mile-per-hour contrast with a very narrow separation between the two.
02:39So, again, a nasty storm producing a likely tornado on the north side of Tulsa.
02:45And it is a radar-confirmed warning here, at least, a confirmed tornado warning.
02:51And I'm not seeing any new reports here plotted, but that doesn't mean that there may not be eyes on
02:56a possible tornado.
02:57Sometimes there could be a delay between when something makes its way to the Weather Service and they issue a
03:01report.
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