AccuWeather's Tony Laubach reported live from Oklahoma on the night of Oct. 30 as severe thunderstorms rocked the region with powerful winds, knocking out power and even flipping tractor trailers.
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00:00And our top story this evening is the severe weather in the central U.S. and
00:05check this out a destructive severe warned storm knocked out the power in
00:09Perry Oklahoma not that long ago. Yeah this is the way that it looked here
00:15video coming to us from meteorologist Tony Laubach and he joins us now with a
00:19closer look at what happened in this area and Tony also just northeast of
00:23Kansas City we got a severe thunderstorm warning not for downtown but down to the
00:26south the southern plains this is a nasty storm that you've been experiencing here
00:30in northern Oklahoma. Yeah and it's been dragging itself out I mentioned in the
00:38last hour when we talked we were kind of waiting for some of those heavier cores
00:42to roll through you saw some of that video in the midst of that core and
00:45you're seeing that now we had some very strong winds probably gusting 60-70
00:49miles per hour it usually takes about 60 to really start rocking this car and
00:54that was about what I was experiencing there in the truck stop it was about
00:57about five minutes of that wind before we lost power with some of the stronger
01:01gusts we have got reports south of Perry of a semi truck that has been blown off
01:07I-35 so working our way down that way kind of following the line as
01:12it's pushing its way through we had a little bit of hail in there as well but
01:16really it was the wind that strong wind 60-70 maybe even approaching 80 miles
01:21per hour we did get a report from emergency management of an estimated
01:24wind gust just to the southwest of Perry prior to our power going out at about
01:2980 miles per hour so these are very intense storms as you mentioned haven't
01:33seen much in the way of tornadic activity yet that has been some of the
01:37good news we are seeing kind of an uptick in I would say hints of that
01:42tornadic activity we've seen a few little notches look few little hooks
01:46that have appeared briefly out of this line so it is something we are watching
01:50very closely as you see behind me and around me other than the flashes of
01:54lightning we are in dark hours now so getting to spot these storms
01:58particularly embedded in lines are very very difficult and very very dangerous
02:02so for folks that are in Northeast Oklahoma even the Oklahoma City area
02:07north of the Oklahoma City area right now as this line is continuing to extend
02:10down to the southwest make sure you have multiple ways to receive warnings the
02:14AccuWeather app weather radio any number of warnings that you can get have a
02:18redundant plan in place you can receive these warnings because again you simply
02:22can't walk outside take a look at the skies and see what's coming at you here
02:26in the middle of the night and again that's even more dangerous when you mix
02:29these storm modes when you don't have discrete isolated supercells you've got
02:34clusters of storms so these spin-ups these QLCS type tornadoes spin up in a
02:38hurry they're not always detectable by radar because they do happen very very
02:42quickly and again it just takes a one in the wrong spot to be in a dangerous
02:45situation so that is going to be the big threat here in addition to those
02:49damaging winds again 60 to 80 miles per hour and you might be looking at some of
02:53the wind-driven hail as well so again we have received reports of a semi blown
02:56off I-35 south of Perry we know the power is out in Perry you saw some of
03:01that video there as some of those more intense winds rolled their way through
03:04so expecting a very active night to continue probably well into the evening
03:08maybe into the early morning hours as we get on the Thursday so we've got those
03:11tornado watches in effect we got the severe thunderstorm watches and again as
03:15you mentioned Jeff we're talking about this threat from here in Oklahoma all
03:18the way up to Iowa all right Tony we appreciate your reporting great video as
03:23always there and he's on top of it there in Perry Oklahoma and Tony when we take
03:28a look at some of these reports here on the graphic you can see we have had
03:31reports of ping-pong ball-sized hail near Mulhall Oklahoma and here is that
03:35the report their overturned tractor-trailer on I-35 near the Orlando
03:39area and that's what Tony is going to ultimately check out just a little bit
03:43south of his location but the peach colored warning destructive severe
03:47thunderstorm warning here in Noble County of Oklahoma Payne County Tony's
03:51right in the heart of Noble County as we travel up by night up to the northeast a
03:56little bit east of I-35 Osage County severe thunderstorm warning there then
04:00we get up into areas like northern parts of Washington County