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Live: Tornadoes striking tornado alley

Posted at 5:01 PM on May 24, 2011 by Bob Collins (0 Comments)
Filed under: Weather

As the experts predicted, all getout is breaking loose in "tornado alley" this afternoon. At least one large one -- a local meteorologist calls it "a monster" -- is dancing around the Oklahoma City area this afternoon. Watch live coverage of it on KFOR in Oklahoma, and note the in-the-field stormchaser the station uses.

 

The station here features a live camera and audio from a helicopter that's chasing the storm.

An aside: The big American Family Insurance mobile disaster bus that pulled into north Minneapolis yesterday is pulling out and heading to Oklahoma this evening. A smaller unit will replace it in the parking lot of the Cub on Broadway. But the initial fear is that the tornadoes in Oklahoma will be like the ones in Alabama a few weeks ago.


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