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Intensity and stknals Is wind spssd based on obeerved damage: OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The clouds bunching churning charcoal-gra- y on the southwestern Oklahoma horizon don't look that ominous to Don McGee he wrap up his day at the Lawton Police Department and heads for his part-tim- e security shift “You could see the wall cloud to the north with little tails hanging out of it” McGee says “Cars stopped to watch it It caused a little traffic jam" But what was kicking up as a typical afternoon thunderstorm was about to explode into a series rtf vicious tornados some with funnels half a mile wide that would chop a path of death and indescribable destruction 60 miles long “It’s the wont in anyone's memory" Oklahoma City Mayor Kirk Humphreys says while surveying blocks of destroyed homes in the south end of the city Tuesday '''tfJ'ti'V''1' FO 40-7- 2 Chimneys u mph dvntQt bn brnnchu broken FI Mobishomss pushed of toundatonor ovsrtumsd rr-- M10'r'-- 6 F2 113-15- 7 mph Considsrabis damage mo Mwditraeii F3 156-20- 6 it Roofs end een wmi Mne overturned cere frown Forecaster Cheryl Sharp is on a team of National Weather Service forecasters and meteorologists in Norman Okla that's tracking the monster storm system as it emerges from a springtime collision of cold air from the north and warm moist air from the south The first storms show up on radar near Lawton about 4 pm Ms Sharp says The weather service puts out its first thunder- i storm warning — covering Comanche County in southwestern Oklahoma — 13 F4 wsee 207-26- 0 eastern corner The enormous system u four dozen eventually spits out as many tornadoes before it spends itself Oklahoma City television stations go live as soon as the twisters form and using helicopters ground spotters and sophisticated radar follow their ferocious dance across the state The main storm forms near Chickaaha about 43 miles to the southwest It skips across the flat Oklahoma countryside toppling trees power lines outbuildings and cars until it rips into south Oklahoma City “I was at home” says Chickasha police Capt Lynn Williams “It started moving toward this direction It looked like it was going to miss town But I took the fondly over to the shelter” The funnel is spotted about 3:30 pm and hits the municipal airport on foe edge of town 13 minutes later "The first two hangars are damaged pretty mph NEW YORK (AP) — A Haitian immigrant who investigators say was sexually brutalized by officers in a New York City police station was the victim of revenge prosecutors say Five white officers went on oonwucwo sb s 8 mph a vounoeions eno nomee moo os frown considerable dWancas sii are mangled But the tornado stays several miles west and northwest of the most populated part of town Williams says “It kind of bypassed us" he says “We got extremely lucky” Not everyone Eight die in Chickasha Just south of the capital at 6:40 pm Wendy Knapp is getting her son ready for practice She doesn’t know the National Weather Service is tracking a huge twister lumbering northwest and has just sent a tornado warning for McClain T-b- bad” Williams says As many as 20 light aircraft because he was punched during a melee on a Brooklyn street “There would be a price to pay for the assault” Thompson said “Because the evidence will show that when someone hurt Justin Volpe be believed in hurting trial on federal civil rights than back" charges Tuesday in the case of Abner Louima Prosecutor Kenneth Thompson said one of the officers Justin Volpe was angry The case along with this year’s police shooting of an unumed African immigrant has strained relations between the Police Car crashes THREADS iNTHINGSl COUPON into school yard 'Mils iij j I I Depvtment and the black munity in New York City “Why he picked yesterday why he picked this school why he picked these kids we don’t know” Lt Ron Smith ssid Tuesday Steven Allen Abrams 39 of Santa Ana was arrested for inves- tigation of murder and assault with a deadly weapon after driving his car into the Southcoast the and Cleveland counties She and other parents have just arrived at foe coach's home when the funnel cloud ' conies into view She turns around I had eerie that should an “I feeling go home" says Ms Knapp a Red Cross volunteer at an evacuation shelter in Newcastle “They made fun of me but I was right “I've been in several of them in my lifetime But this was a big one This did mope damage than I’ve ever seen in my Ufd There are dead cattle in people's yards It looks like a war zone It looks like the ‘ Murnh bombing” ecutor said The alleged assault left Louima hospitalized with severe internal injuries and prompted widespread brutality demonstrations in New Yak “Ladies and gentlemen Abner Louima was tortured in that bathroom and his torture was cruel Kornberg said Louima had 130 million reasons to lie about the incident — one for every dollar in his civil claim against the city and was simply inhumane” Louima’s internal injuries were anti-poli- 1 Volpe's attorney I vo- - 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COSTA MESA Calif (AP) — A man who told police he wanted to “execute" innocent children plowed through a day care center playground with his car lulling two toddlers and injuring five people authorities say When the big Cadillac finally came to a stop pinning several children underneath he calmly sat behind the wheel until police airested him Monday com- Thompson said Volpe 27 mistook Louima for the real attacker — Louima's cousin — as police tried to break up a brawl outside a nightclub on Aug 9 1997 Blinded by rage the officer later rammed a broken broomstick into Louima's rectum and mouth in the bathroom of a Brooklyn police station the pros in n u 2 AP photo Chelsea Zuchnic walks past the remains of a truck wrapped around a tree Zuctmlc's destroyed home In Bridge Creek OUa on Tuesday Prosecutors: Man tortured after cousin hit cop F5 261-31- minutes later But the winds swiftly rise to howls and fierce clouds whirl high over Comanche and Grady counties Barely half an hour later at 4:47 pm the service issues the day’s first tornado warning “From then on there was just chaos" Ms Sharp says “It was very busy” Over the next 20 hours the weather service issues 174 warnings covering dozens of Oklahoma counties They trace a diagonal line straight toward the state's north- Ksultivattng young people's awareness of the environment is an important step toward lessening future impact on the delicate ecosystems that live among us of Logan Neighborhood Councils - |
