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It just seems like the Midwest City and Moore area attracts tornados....I remember when the last big tornado hit that took out the gym where the state basketball playoffs were going to be held. My high school's basketball team was on a bus halfway there when the tornado hit....

Any new developments on the track of this storm and on the tornados? (I have't seen anything confirming that they aren't still on the ground) What about the weather situation in Kansas? (I also have family all over that area...) Thanks!

Tornado Sweeps Across Oklahoma City
By JENNIFER L. BROWN
Associated Press Writer

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)--A tornado touched down in Oklahoma City as the afternoon rush hour began Thursday, damaging buildings and forcing authorities to shut down a major highway. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

Television reports showed structures stripped of roofs, and automobiles and mobile homes scattered across the landscape. The footage also showed damage to nearby Tinker Air Force Base and a General Motors plant.

Sirens sounded in the area just before 5 p.m. and the twister touched down in suburban Moore at about 5:15 p.m. It then moved over Interstate 35 and a mall before moving to the east and into two more suburbs, Midwest City and Del City.

Authorities closed parts of Interstate 240 after heavy wind damaged industrial buildings, a mobile home sales lots, a bank and a fast-food restaurant.

The Plains, Midwest and South have been pummeled with tornado-packed storms that have killed at least 42 people since Sunday.

AP-NY-05-08-03 1908EDT

This has all tornado/Severe T-storm warnings updated instantly, just refresh it:

http://kamala.cod.edu/svr/

Regarding Kansas, there is a line of supercells extending the entire North-South Width of Kansas and about to move over the eastern quarter of Kansas. Most of them have hook echoes, it appears.