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SEVERE WEATHER: Powerful Tornadoes Hit Oklahoma

Posted by Kidsdaily Entertainment on Monday, May 20, 2013

A devastating, mile-wide tornado touched down near Oklahoma City on Monday, leveling homes, businesses and schools in the suburb of Moore. There were no immediate reports of fatalities or injuries.

The funnel cloud could be seen for miles, creating a debris field several miles wide. Weather officials estimated the strength of the tornado to be an F4 or F5, the highest intensity rating on the Fujita scale.

“This is war zone terrible,” Jon Welsh, a helicopter pilot for KFOR-TV who lives in Moore, said while surveying the damage from the air. “This school is completely gone.”

The 106-acre Orr Family Farm was completely destroyed, killing between 75 and 100 horses, KFOR said.

A host on KFOR called Monday’s storm “the worst tornado damagewise in the history of the world.”

Another tornado was reported on the ground west of Meeker, north of Shawnee, on Monday.

The tornado comes a day after powerful storms ripped through the center of the country spawning at least a dozen tornadoes, killing two people and causing extensive damage from Georgia to Minnesota.

According to the Oklahoma state medical examiner, the two victims in Sunday’s storms—Glen Irish, 79, and Billy Hutchinson, 76—were from hard-hit Shawnee. At least 39 other people were injured on Sunday, Oklahoma emergency management director Albert Ashwood said.