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Oklahoma City Tornado: Dangerous Twister Strikes Near State Capital

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Huffington Post, 5/31/13-Sean Murphy

 

Oklahoma City Tornado

 

OKLAHOMA CITY — A violent storm formed over the prairie west of Oklahoma City late Friday afternoon, dropped a tornado in a suburb and rolled toward the state capital as viewers brave enough to remain above ground watched on statewide television.

Storm chasers with cameras in their car transmitted video showing a number of funnels dropping from the supercell thunderstorm as it passed south of El Reno and toward downtown Oklahoma City. Police urged motorists to leave the crosstown Interstate 40 and seek a safe place.

 

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Extreme Weather in Central Mexico - 7 Feet of Hail, Landslide, Tornado, Dozens Killed

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Poleshift.ning.com, 5/28/13- Jorge

 

 

 

 

At least 22 vehicles were dragged into a canyon in the town of Tepeji del Rio, Hidalgo, following severe weather on Sunday that included a tornado and hail that accumulated up to 7 feet high.

Filiberto Reyes Villa, a resident of Tepeji del Rio, Hidalgo, said: "It started to hail and lasted one hour exactly, began to collect the water of the two canyons and began to bring the cars."

 

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Tornado Pets: “We’re here for them

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wunderground.com ,Carol Cole-Frowe- May 24, 2013

 

 

 

Photo, Erin Brickman-credit: Carol Cole-Frowe

ORMAN, Okla. — It was early Thursday afternoon at the makeshift animal shelter at the Cleveland County, Okla. Fairgrounds, and Erin Brickman had yet to sleep from the night before.

The volunteer vet tech stayed up all Wednesday night to comfort dozens of tornado-displaced dogs and cats saved after Monday’s massive EF5 tornado ripped through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore.

 

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Woman returns pictures to tornado victims

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NewsChannel4- Bree Steffn,May 24, 2013

 

Lost photos

 

MOORE, Okla. – As cleanup crews start clearing debris from the hardest hit areas of Moore, many people from all over the area are finding pictures scattered and damaged by the storm.

Melisa Rose is one of them.

She lived through the May 3, 1999 tornado as well as the one on May 8, 2003.

“You have no words for it, she said “You just sit and watch and hope that it’s not going to hit you.”

On Monday, for the third time, she stepped outside to see a city once again left in ruins.

Since she lives close by she headed to the Warren Theater to see what she could do to help.

Oklahoma Tornado Aftermath Leaves Trail Of Destruction In Moore

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 Huffingtonpost - 5/21/2013, Carey Gillam and Ian Simpson

 

Trail Of Destruction In Moore

 

 

MOORE, Okla., May 21 (Reuters) - Emergency workers searched for survivors in the rubble of homes, schools and a hospital in an Oklahoma town hit by a powerful tornado, but officials on Tuesday sharply lowered the number of deaths caused by the storm.

The Oklahoma state medical examiner's office said 24 bodies had been recovered from the wreckage of Monday's storm, down from the 51 they had reported earlier. The earlier number likely reflected some double-counted deaths, said Amy Elliott, chief administrative officer for the medical examiner.

 

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Oklahoma tornado tears massive path of death, destruction

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A man looks through the remains of a home after the massive tornado struck Moore on May 20.

By George Howell. Gary Tuchman and Dana Ford

 

Moore, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Rescue workers raced against time and darkness Monday night looking for survivors after a powerful tornado blasted an area outside of Oklahoma City, leveling homes and leaving at least 51 people dead.

At least 20 of the dead were children, including at least seven from Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, which lay directly in the path of the monster storm's wall of wind.

 

 

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