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By Lindsay Morris
TULSA, Oklahoma | Mon May 20, 2013 7:02pm EDT
(Reuters) - A huge tornado with winds of up to 200 miles per hour tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, ripping up at least two schools and leaving a wake of tangled wreckage as a dangerous storm system threatened as many as 10 U.S. states.
Television video showed tracts of homes destroyed, cars tossed about and piled atop one another, and at least one building on fire. Rescue workers were pulling third-graders from a severely damaged elementary school in Moore, a KFOR television reporter said from the scene, and aerial video showed first responders sifting through the rubble left behind.
"I have never seen anything like this in my 18 years covering tornadoes here in Oklahoma City. This is without question the most horrific," said Lance West, a reporter for KFOR.
The National Weather Service assigned the twister a preliminary ranking of EF4 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, meaning the second most powerful category of tornado with winds up to 200 mph.
There were no immediate reports of deaths and the number of injuries remained unconfirmed after the tornado struck in midafternoon.
"It seems that our worst fears have happened today," said Bill Bunting, National Weather Service meteorologist in Norman, Oklahoma.
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Isn't it a bit early for tornados?
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We had a tornado here on New Years Eve 2011.klr wrote:Isn't it a bit early for tornados?
So, no, never too early.
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Same path as the Bridge Creek/Moore F5 of 1999.
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You'll note that one was over two weeks earlier in the year than this one.
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Area where one third grade class was taking shelter is completely gone.
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First report, 24 dead at the school above.
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Bugger. 
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Pretty astounding time-lapse video of the twister: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/2 ... _ref=false
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Robin knows where to go if we get one such. We go past recent tornado damage every time we head into the city.
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AP: State medical examiner states 37 dead so far.
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Tornado Watch 193 remains valid until 1 am CDT Tuesday for the following areas in Illinois This Watch includes 16 counties in south central Illinois bond IL Clinton IL Fayette IL Marion IL Montgomery IL Washington IL in Southwest Illinois Calhoun IL Greene IL Jersey IL Macoupin IL Madison IL Monroe IL St. Clair IL in West Central Illinois Adams IL Brown IL Pike IL in Missouri this Watch includes 23 counties in central Missouri Audrain Mo Boone Mo Callaway Mo Cole Mo Moniteau MO Osage Mo in east central Missouri Crawford Mo Franklin MO Gasconade MO Jefferson Mo Lincoln Mo Montgomery Mo St. Charles Mo St. Louis MO Warren Mo Washington Mo in northeast Missouri Knox Mo Lewis Mo Marion Mo Monroe Mo Pike Mo Ralls Mo Shelby Mo in Missouri this Watch Includes 1 independent city in east central Missouri St. Louis City MO this includes the cities of: Belleville, Bowling Green, Columbia, Edwardsville, Hannibal, Jefferson City. Litchfield, Mexico, Quincy, Salem, st charles, St Louis. Union and Vandalia.
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Stay safe, guys. If any of them twisters comes near, growl at the bastit!
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Ayaan's very safe at work, they have a full-scale shelter. We don't have our kit together here yet, but I have the shelter location down, a place Harry Potter would recognize.Xamonas Chegwé wrote:Stay safe, guys. If any of them twisters comes near, growl at the bastit!
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51 dead at this time. The school is still being excavated. Seven kids drown in standing water. 20-30 more bodies may come out of the school.
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