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Jamie Lynn
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NBC News
A monster tornado packing winds as strong as 200 mph roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, pulverizing block after block of homes and demolishing the walls of an elementary school.
At least 37 people were killed, the Oklahoma City medical examiner said.
The situation in Moore is not at all clear. Lots of confusion, basis live video news feed from NBC. Rescue workers still searching for people in a lot of wreckage.
Fires are still burning, still torrential rain and ail … and winds …
Crews frantically searched an estimated 30 square miles of wreckage and were only beginning to get a sense of the destruction.
Dazed people stepped around mangled cars and picked through acres of splintered wood and metal where houses had stood. Hospitals reported several dozen injured. “The whole city looks like a debris field,” said Mayor Glenn Lewis of the city of Moore, which appeared to be hardest hit.
At Plaza Towers Elementary School, the tornado tore the roof off, and authorities kept hysterical parents back because it was too loud to hear screams for help. It was not clear how many children were inside.
A teacher told NBC affiliate KFOR that she draped herself on top of six children in a bathroom to shelter them. More than two hours after the tornado struck, several children were pulled out alive.
The Weather Channel said the twister was a mile wide at its base, and a reporter for KFOR said it kicked up a cloud of debris perhaps two miles wide. The National Weather Service initially classified the storm as an EF4, the second-strongest type, with winds of 166 to 200 mph.
“It seems that our worst fears have happened today,” said Bill Bunting, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Norman, Okla. The tornado struck at mid-afternoon and tore a 20-mile path, said Rick Smith, another weather service meteorologist. He said it was on the ground for 40 minutes. Much of the storm’s rampage was captured on live television, perhaps alerting people in its path to seek shelter.
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Unique and interesting
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