<p style="font-weight: 400;">A massive supercell tornado accompanied by hail as big as tennis balls <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11993029/Terrifying-moment-monster-tornado-rips-tiny-Oklahoma-town-75mph-winds.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tore</a> through Kansas and Oklahoma, killing at least two people and catapulting debris almost four miles up into the sky.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Up to 20,000 customers lost power and two people died in Cole, Oklahoma, as a result of the huge twister. Entire homes were leveled while trees were reduced to tree stumps. According to Ryan Barnes, a National Weather Service meteorologist, the tornado striking Cole lasted for almost half an hour.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">MASSIVE tornado producing supercell near Slaughterville, Oklahoma. </p>
<p>This doesn’t even seem real. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/okwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#okwx</a> @VortexChasing <a href="https://t.co/hS3mLg32Bl">pic.twitter.com/hS3mLg32Bl</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Zachary Hall (@WxZachary) <a href="https://twitter.com/WxZachary/status/1648859451212832770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Extreme Meteorologist <a href="https://twitter.com/ReedTimmerAccu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ReedTimmerAccu</a> captured intense video of a <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/tornado?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#tornado</a> moving through Cole, Oklahoma. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OKwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OKwx</a> </p>
<p>Timmer reported at least four homes were damaged. <a href="https://t.co/AskARxxrkj">https://t.co/AskARxxrkj</a> <a href="https://t.co/6yIdunHC8n">pic.twitter.com/6yIdunHC8n</a></p>
<p>&mdash; AccuWeather (@accuweather) <a href="https://twitter.com/accuweather/status/1648876748682014721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">AccuWeather&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/BillWadell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BillWadell</a> recorded as a 3-inch hail hit his windshield and nearly burst into the truck in Blanchard, OK. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OKwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OKwx</a> <a href="https://t.co/LfXEzAAyQ9">pic.twitter.com/LfXEzAAyQ9</a></p>
<p>&mdash; AccuWeather (@accuweather) <a href="https://twitter.com/accuweather/status/1648857220828807168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Extreme meteorologist <a href="https://twitter.com/ReedTimmerAccu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ReedTimmerAccu</a> reports as a severe-warned supercell produces baseball-sized hail in Oklahoma. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OKwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OKwx</a> <a href="https://t.co/tZgHq06FAw">pic.twitter.com/tZgHq06FAw</a></p>
<p>&mdash; AccuWeather (@accuweather) <a href="https://twitter.com/accuweather/status/1648849342231445504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">FIRST LIGHT:<br />Cole Oklahoma Damage from the strong <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/tornado?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#tornado</a> that impacted yesterday afternoon. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/okwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#okwx</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wxtwitter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#wxtwitter</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SevereStudios?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SevereStudios</a> <a href="https://t.co/Yzri7H6pgC">pic.twitter.com/Yzri7H6pgC</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Jordan Hall (@JordanHallWX) <a href="https://twitter.com/JordanHallWX/status/1649033849332957190?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“Looked like a bomb went off,” one local resident told CBS News.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Speaking of the two deaths attributed to the tornado, Scott Gibbons of the McClain County Sheriff’s Department said, “It is reasonable to expect possibly more, based on the damage that we’ve seen thus far.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">He <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/us/tornado-deaths-cole-oklahoma.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> a man and woman had been killed, with the man found dead and the woman found injured but later died on her way to a medical facility for treatment. Gibbons told <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/19/weather/oklahoma-tornado-central-us-storms/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> that first responders had been apprised that people had been trapped in shelters, and teams were searching across a 10-mile wide path.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Supercell tornadoes, which occur more frequently in the central U.S., contain a “deep and persistent rotating updraft called a mesocyclone,” the National Weather Service <a href="https://www.weather.gov/ama/supercell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explains.</a> Mesocyclones usually range from two to six miles in diameter. Supercell tornadoes move quickly and require directional wind shear between the earth and 20,000 feet up.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">KOCO News 5 <a href="https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-tornadoes-cole-shawnee-damage-sky-5/43654350" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> nine tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma Wednesday night.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Another tornado touched down 60 miles east of Cole in Shawnee; striking Oklahoma Baptist University, where it even shredded the walls of buildings on campus. “My immediate reaction was like, holy crap,” one apparent student said. “There was a huge tree that was overturned. There was glass that was like stained glass, beautiful, shattered.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">“It looked like a bomb went off”: A tornado that tore through Cole, Oklahoma, a small town of roughly 600 people, is blamed for killing at least two people and decimating houses.</p>
<p>It is the latest deadly outbreak in the 2023 tornado season. <a href="https://t.co/5c0d82NKLh">pic.twitter.com/5c0d82NKLh</a></p>
<p>&mdash; CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSMornings/status/1649042473040134144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The Storm Prediction Center warned that areas ranging from Texas to southern Illinois as well as Little Rock, Arkansas, and Shreveport, Louisiana, faced a Level 2 out of 5 “slight risk” of severe weather.</p>

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