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I am no US citizen, so basically the only thing I know about tornadoes is that they exist. So, please, I don't want to be disrespectful now, but someone please must give me an explanation: The supercell was being tracked, a tornado watch was issued, the EF5 touched down 30 minutes before it entered Moore, then even a tornado emergency was given and radar allowed to narrowly forecast its likely path: Why did people just not leave the West Moore area? I really can't wrap my head around this circumstance about many tragic tornadoes in US history. Why do people do not leave the area a tornado watch or even emergency is issued for? Sometimes even 20, 30, 40 minutes before it entered a populated area. Why where there even kids at school at this particular day? I just can't believe it. I don't understand this. 😢 Even at the day of such an event new warnings are issued. Why did people do not leave?

Jesus christ Station 28th and 1/2,,,,,,,,,,,, that totally dwarfd my 26 letter kicck

I grew up in Texas my whole life lived in Temecula California Las Vegas and Oklahoma besides Dallas my whole life and by far Oklahoma people are pure class then you goto new Mexico or California and the people are mentally ill

The reporters deserve an Emmy for that coverage!

13:18 - *"You never wanna say it, but I'm gonna say it right now. This is May 3rd all over again."*

Dude I remember this very well…. I’m not from Oklahoma but I was watching the weather channel that day when I took a sick day from school in the 4th or 5th grade back then… and as a 10-13 year old at the time I was baffled let alone even scared even tho I was over 1,000 miles away. Can’t imagine what those people went through that day..

It's amazing that someone as big of a hick as someone who says a tornado is "fixin" to go somewhere is smart enough to fly a helicopter.

Why the hell live there! Come live here in Carolina!

Start to finish great broadcast saved sooooo many lives! Incredible to see the ending how it just disappeared

I come back to this video about once a month, and I don't think I'll ever be able to shake the words at 27:47 when he says "The debris ball is 2 miles wide now"

I saw fragments of this broadcast in Tornado Chasers episode "Home" part 1&2. Reed Timmer missed this storm, but it was horrifying to see his and whole team reaction at realizing the monster tornado hit very close to their homes.

Mike Morgan is Legend! And Gary England RIP. 🏆

I lived in Newcastle when this hit, not far from the casino. We had no shelter or basement, so we had no choice other than our master bedroom closet, which was just large enough to fit the 4 people in my family at the time.

You never want to say it it is may 3rd again the horror

I understand why he said to get out of the way but 10 days later we almost lost many lives on i40 from the el reno tornado.

I remember seeing him in Twister lol

"It looks violent!" 🙄

I was doing roofing in Moore on may 19th 2013. we JUST left the city and headed back to kansas early morning of may 20th.... I was one more day of work from being in the middle of this. I just still 11 years later dont have words for how close I was to this MONSTER tornado.

I still cannot wrap my head around how big this thing was. Insane

Great videos! It’s pass the river, its pass the river! We’re gonna be all good Just , let it pass!

Interesting how David Payne and Jim Gardner both went to Channel 9. While this coverage is compelling, I still prefer Gary England's coverage. How can you not?

He has a cool accent.

This man, as a Meteorologist and a Broadcaster, is so utterly competent. He knows every street, building, piece of infrastructure, past storm track, recent radar return.... any and everything. He's also under just unbelievable pressure on air in a catastrophe like this, yet he always has his hands pointing to the exact right street intersection as he calls it out on a green screen street grid, all when his anxiety must be dialed up to 13

My guy said "fuck your house and your family. Janet? Go!"

Who's the old rummie panhandling at thr brginning.

I remember when my old meteorology prof didn't believe twin tornado's existed in the early 80s. But then he didn't accept global warming either. And now we see entire clusters of tornados, it seems. Fascinating. And dangerous.

Why didn’t the people of Moore evacuate and head east as instructed? They had time due to this great coverage, what were they thinking?

I'd seen this footage on YT several years ago and had been trying to find it for a few months (off and on). I'm glad I finally found it! This is one of a few tornado warnings I've watched that took my breath away and made me cry for those people. I'm glad this weatherman emphasized the extreme importance of getting out of this monster's way and getting underground. Wow!

If I lived in midwest trust me Id dig me a deep bunker, 30 ft. Couldnt no tornado touch me.

Pretty courageous guys to be up in a helicopter reporting and hovering just 2 miles from the very wide edge an historic tornado.

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Dude I haven’t had cable in over 10 years but this gives me flashbacks of my childhood. My family sitting in the living room watching the news. It terrified me when I was a kid.

It seems that Mike Morgan the weather man at the tv station televising this storm wasn't aware of certified above ground tornado shelters which were relatively a new concept at the time.

I know the supposed experts disagree, but there is no way I would sit in a home and wait for long tracked, daytime, flat terrain EF-5 to roll through my subdivision. Obviously in a quick spin up, nighttime and forested hill areas, this would not work. But I would get in my vehicle and drive north or south 5 miles. Yes you could get hit by debris, sure you could be at risk for flooding or high wind hail, but you would have a high chance of survival. Show me the video of a tornado chaser sitting in a building waiting for a large tornado to come. You will never find one.

ok I'm @ the "oohh Man" we are looking at the damage, waiting on your V shape.

Could someone have survived this with a storm shelter above ground?

Woah, woah, woah! What do you mean Oklahoma City has no public shelter. Why the hell not? Have we given up on Civil Defense shelters in this country?

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10/10 weather coverage. Bro refused to cut off to commercial before it got bad

I still remember playing Spyro the Dragon on my PlayStation 1 and shutting the game off not too long after Mike Morgan claimed it was May 3rd all over again. I couldn't get my eyes off the radar and the footage that was on TWC. Also, didn't Mike Morgan know that getting underground was easier said than done in central Oklahoma (at least at the time)?

We where doing senior graduation practice inside the gym at westmoore when we where rushed into the safe halls. My last day inside westmoore and my last day of school.

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A co worker lost her house near Tower Plaza Elementary School. Her husband and son had just left the house to make sure her elderly MIL got down in her shelter. We were watching the news live on our computers and knew when she lost her house. I'll never forget how black the sky got at work and we were 10 miles away. The wind was blowing so hard at work we had to close the warehouse bay doors and we are just north of I40.

idc what anyone says i will get in my dodge charger and run away from an F5 since we got a 10-15 min warning and you can see the storns speed and dutection on your radar... i out ran an F3 in 96' after i got hit by one the same year

My 90 year old dad and his wife rode this out in their bathtub on 19th st in Moore. The school across their street took a major hit, roof ripped off next door. He said this was the scariest thing he’d ever experienced including ww2. He was never the same after that and he died 2 years later.

I may not be from Oklahoma but i am a proud Southern man and i love Oklahoma too ......STAY STRONG OKLAHOMA!!!!

Rewatched both. This was so much better coverage than Ch 9. He called "1999 Moore track all over again" while it was still in Newcastle. Also Ch 9 never really did get a good shot of the tornado once and it was just a bunch of yelling.

Great job by these reporters.