KWTV NEWS Oklahoma City May 3 1999 Pt 2 of 5

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[kakerot0]

I know no one will believe me but I have to say it. At 2:57 you will see a blue delta "88 turning from a stop sign. That was me driving with my friend Todd from Alaska. He had never seen a tornado before. It was a monster! At one point, we were about 1/4 of a mile from it's south edge and the winds were being sucked into it so much that you couldn't hear the tornado. It was silent. I had never seen anything that big move that fast. I love watching tornadoes but I hope we never have another F5.

[nickthestick26]

0:50 I still see peop.... I see somebody driving down Interstate 44 to the north!

Yeah there is.... If you're driving anywhere between Chickasha and Oklahoma City on I-44, get offa that sucker now!!

[PaulG85]

The tornado that was a stove pipe and had a satellite tornado.............was that the same beast that hit Moore, Ok. City or was that a different one that might have been a high end F4?

[HereWasNicole]

My god, the wind at 7:30... never heard anything like that before in my life. And I hope I never do, for real. Ever.

[Jitpring]

So sad to see the helpless horsey there. I wonder what the animal body count was.

[ShaiHuludisCool]

1:54 - HAHA, sounded like George W. Bush XD

[dragonridley]

@BMPmama698

True, radar indicated such a winds field, but it is still not officially recorded as having such a damage path

Also, the DOW cannot record winds at ground level, where damage occurs, without getting dangerously close.

[BMPmama698]

@dragonridley The distance between the maximum winds on each side of the Mulhall tornado (over 110 metres per second (250 mph)) was over 1600 m as measured by a DOW radar. Although the tornado passed largely over rural terrain, the width of the wind swath capable of producing damage was as wide as 4 miles (7 km), making the actual wind field of the Mulhall tornado likely twice as wide as that of the Hallam tornado

[BMPmama698]

@dragonridley The widest tornado (defined as damage path, not condensation/debris cloud or radar measurements) on record is the Wilber - Hallam, Nebraska tornado during the outbreak of May 22, 2004, with a width of 2.5 miles (4 km) at its peak. The widest tornado as measured by actual radar wind measurements was the Mulhall tornado May 3, 1999 (soon after it moved out of the MWC/Moore area)

[LaconeJo1]

were those cows?

[iikon69]

@JohnnyDart76 Gary England still does the weather here in OKC on chan 9.