![]() “It looks like this is widespread, it’s not one house here, one house here,” KFOR chopper pilot Mason Dunn says, hovering over the south side of Cole. The number of houses damaged is currently unclear. Residents in the path of the storm were urged to take shelter immediately, with pictures posted on social media showing some residences completely flattened. Here’s LIVE CHOPPER 4 COVERAGE from just seconds ago. #BREAKING: ***SEVERE DAMAGE*** on south side of #Cole #Oklahoma as large, devastating tornado has severely damaged, if not leveled, many homes across wide area. “I ain’t out of the damn helicopter yet,” he says. “We are beat the hell up,” pilot Jim Gardner, who was covering the tornado for KWTV, can be heard saying. “The numbers may increase, unfortunately,” Gibbons warned, adding a “ballpark” figure for the number of injured at 12.Ī helicopter pilot flying for a local news station barely made it home after his windshield was damaged by the storm’s large hail, harrowing video showed Wednesday. The number of injured could grow as officials fear that there are people unaccounted for. A third death was later confirmed by the sheriff’s office on Thursday. ![]() McClain County Sheriff’s Deputy Scott Gibbons confirmed two people were dead early Thursday morning in the Cole area. Search and rescue operations continued throughout the night. One of the worst hit was the community of Cole, which was struck at 7:39 p.m. Visible satellite loop of supercells bubbling across Oklahoma tonight, including the one that produced the intense tornado south of Norman in Cole.
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