Is the radar facility located well to the east-southeast of Norman? The apparently dry area is nearly circular, which would jibe with some sort of radar artifact, but with evident rotation around the periphery on all sides. It’s not moving much. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see that loop pop up on some conspiracy oriented site, since it creates something of an illusion of directing the cell away from Tinker AFB, which is just beyond the edge of the cell into the black apparently dry area. It really is unusual looking, to me and at least one other FReeper. I’m no meteorologist but I’m not a complete novice, either. Can’t honestly say I’ve ever seen anything quite like that before.
OKLAHOMA CITY - UPDATE: 11:00 p.m.
Via Oklahoma Associated Press news wire:
Oklahoma City area hospitals are reporting critically injured patients after a deadly tornado that killed at least two people struck the metro area.
Integris Health System spokeswoman Brooke Cayot says:
... three of the system’s hospitals received close to 50 patients and that five are in critical condition and one of those critically injured is a child.
Mercy spokeswoman Rachel Wright says the hospital took in four patients — all in stable condition.
Two of those critically injured were in vehicles that were on Interstate 40 west of Oklahoma City when they were caught in the tornado.
UPDATE 10:40 p.m.
OU Medical Center officials say they have extra staff to handle injuries if need be, per standard protocol. At this time they say they have only had three children with storm injuries and two adults at the main hospital.
Heavy flooding and stranded vehicles are visible on Reno between Rockwell and Council.
OG&E is reporting 74,113 customers without power across the OKC metro area.
You can see that kind of appearance on radar images of hurricanes too.