eight:forty five p.m.: A half of-mile wide twister machine made straight for downtown Oklahoma City Friday evening, only one week after an extraordinary storm devastated local Moore, OK.

The storm constructed up Friday afternoon, but at just before 8:00 a couple of tornados fashioned to the southwest of Oklahoma City, with winds whipping up to one hundred fifty miles an hour. Whereas the Moore tornado was a violent but targeted storm that reduce a single course, the machine attacking Oklahoma Metropolis contained different funnel clouds that could touch down at any level.

Compounding the panic in Oklahoma, the storm approached at rush hour, stranding drivers on freeway I-35. The gadget also fashioned at dusk, making the person twisters troublesome to identify, and was once so wide that many drivers did not recognize they have been riding into the storm.

One tornado used to be moving from Dell City to Tinker Air Drive Base, whereas some other was once forming above I-35 and Crossroads Mall. As a result of the nature of the storm, it is not possible to tell if and when the individual tornados will touch down.

31,000 are at present without energy, though “that number’s going to alter so fast,” Fox News’ Shepard Smith said, “that that quantity almost isn’t worth reporting.” MSNBC had additionally pronounced that as much as 1,000 folks had been evacuated to a tunnel underneath Will Rogers Airport.

Updates beneath:

12:10 pm: CNN updates us on the latest news concerning the storm and their aftermath:

12:09 pm: RT @cnnbrk Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has declared a state of emergency on account of the extreme weather.

10:31 pm: Supply of the confusion on mass casualties: RT @mbushksdk The fireplace dept arrange a command publish on the Vacation Inn for a “mass casualty” contigency..NOT for mass casualties.

10:24 pm: Stories of a “mass casualty experience” appear to be nothing.

10:23 pm: by the use of Oklahoma News 9: “Authorities confirm 5 fatalities; a mom and her child, at I-40 and Cimarron Rd. in Canadian County. Two different victims had been present in a automotive close to SW fifteenth St. and Choctaw Rd. in Union City. And one different particular person near NW 10th St. and Radio Rd. in El Reno.”

10:19 pm: RT @NewsBreakers: @BreakingWeather’s tweet of fanatics trapped at Busch stadium in MO seems unfounded per @KMOV by the use of local fireplace officials.

10:17 pm: by way of NewsOk, Oklahoma Metropolis Police Lt. Jay Barnett:

“We are overwhelmed at the moment with calls of people trapped in vehicles in excessive water, to the purpose that we are having grave difficulty even responding to all of them. The flooding is the main problem within the Oklahoam Metropolis metro. Plenty of that has to do with individuals who, for no matter purpose, as an alternative of sheltering made up our minds to outrun the storm and acquired caught in it.”

10:08 pm: Conflicting reports of a “mass casualty adventure” in St. Louis. KSDK NewsChannel 5 announcing it has heard no reviews.

10:06 pm: Climate Underground reporting no present twister warnings for Oklahoma City house, but cautions, “still dangerous weather available in the market.”

9:fifty seven pm: RT @breakingweather: Fans are trapped beneath particles at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, MO in keeping with local information sources.

9:fifty six pm: Oklahoma G&E reporting up to fifty four,000 folks with out power.

9:34 pm: Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett informed Rachel Maddow that Oklahoma City has been “generally spared,” as so far there is no proof a twister in fact touched down throughout the metropolis, though he warned that “the night time’s now not over.” Cornett mentioned about energy outages and flash flooding, but introduced, “The skies are nonetheless mild to the west. That’s a good sign. It used to be so much darker an hour ago.”

Cornett noted the choice of vehicles on the street, and wondered if people had been scared by the twister ultimate week in Moore. “Individuals were so apprehensive they only wished to get out of the best way,” he said, including that being in a car on the street was the worst conceivable situation to be all through a twister.

9:48: RT @4WarnStormTeam: OHP is asking all driver NOT to get on I-forty or I-35. Emergency crews can’t get through gridlock.

9:forty seven: KFOR anchor Lance West is reporting a mom and daughter are lifeless after being thrown from their automobile by means of the storm. These are the primary suggested casualties.

9:26 pm: St. Louis Cardinals cancel game against San Francisco Giants on public safety suggestions.

9:15 pm: Nationwide Climate Service in Norman, OK, emphasizing severe flash flood warning for OKC metro house: “The general public who die in flood drown in their cars!”

9:thirteen pm: Climate Underground is now reporting a tornado warning for “St. Charles, St. Louis and St. Louis City Counties in MO unless 8:forty five CDT.”

Watch live stream, by way of KFOR:

Watch are living circulate, by the use of News9 – Oklahoma:

<a href="http://www.news9.com" title="News9.com – Oklahoma City, OK – News, Weather, Video and Sports Metropolis, OK – News, Climate, Video and Sports activities in regards to the chaotic stipulations on the ground:

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Climate Channel automobile tossed with the aid of twister:

DCRobTV: Huge three/four mile broad tornado on the ground close to El Reno shifting East. Yukon within the path %by means of @KFOR http://t.co/aktQjF53M7

From Lance West, OKC reporter. Tweet; “I-forty east of El Reno seems like a demolition derby. Overturned semis everywhere.”

From NBC Information Correspondent Janet Shamlian: Underground At Airport: