Live: Tornadoes Still Threaten Oklahoma, Kansas and Iowa

[Mimi]

Very large tornado on the ground between OKC and Tulsa. http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/live-blog-hail-and-severe-stor/12804758


Live: Tornadoes Still Threaten Oklahoma, Kansas and Iowa
Courtney Spamer
By Courtney Spamer, Meteorologist
May 19, 2013; 5:06 PM
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The severe thunderstorm threat continues across the Plains for the second half of the weekend.

With the storm shifting eastward, so does the threat of damaging wind gusts, large hail and tornadoes.

Like the AccuWeather.com Meteorologists, you can track the storms on radar from city to city.

UPDATES:

5:07 p.m. CDT Saturday: Golf ball-sized hail reported in Burlington, Iowa.

5:01 p.m. CDT Saturday: Thunderstorm wind gust of 65 mph 4 miles west of Winfield, Kan.

4:56 p.m. CDT Saturday: Golf ball-sized hail reported 6 miles north of Rockport, Mo.

4:53 p.m. CDT Saturday: Tornado has been reported 3 miles north of Luther, Okla.

4:51 p.m. CDT Saturday: Baseball-sized hail has been reported near Luther, Okla.

4:40 p.m. CDT Saturday: A tornado has been reported 1 mile south of South Haven, Kan.

4:37 p.m. CDT Saturday: Tennis to baseball-sized hail reported 5 miles west northwest of Arcadia, Okla.

4:28 p.m. CDT Saturday: Thunderstorm wind gust of 55 mph reported in Cannon Falls, Minn.

4:27 p.m. CDT Saturday: Funnel cloud reported near Wellington, Kan.

4:21 p.m. CDT Saturday: Tornado confirmed on the ground in Edmond, Okla.

4:19 p.m. CDT Saturday: Thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph was reported 4 miles north of Stewartville, Minn.

4:18 p.m. CDT Saturday: Baseball-sized hail reported from a thunderstorm that went just north of Andover, Kan.

4:08 p.m. CDT Saturday: Golf ball-sized hail has been reported in Bel Aire, Kan.

4:06 p.m. CDT Saturday: Thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph was reported in Andover, Kan.

3:50 p.m. CDT Sunday: Large tornado heading towards the Wichita, Kansas area:

[Mimi]

Live coverage from The Weather Channel

http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-central/live-coverage-may-severe-outbreak-20130517

KOCO - Oklahoma local reporting  video

A tornado watch has been issued for much of the KOCO viewing area until 11 p.m.

Counties included in the watch are: Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw, Cleveland, Coal, Comanche, Cotton, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Garfield, Garvin, Grady, Grant, Haskell, Hughes, Jefferson, Johnston, Kay, Kingfisher, Latimer, LeFlore, Lincoln, Logan, Love, Marshall, Mayes, McClain, McIntosh, Murray, Muskogee, Noble, Nowata, Okfuskee, Oklahoma, Okmulgee, Osage, Ottawa, Pawnee, Payne, Pittsburg, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Pushmataha, Rogers, Seminole, Sequoyah, Stephens, Tulsa, Wagoner and Washington.

[Mimi]

http://www.koco.com/weather/radar

http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/severe-weather

[Mimi]

Photographs of tornadoes: http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/photos-tornadoes-threaten-plai/12813721

[Richard Myers]

Deadly tornadoes which killed six in Texas Wednesday and Thursday and brought "hail as large as grapefruit" have now hit Oklahoma hard. source  source

More storms on the way.


These were in Kansas on the Sabbath.