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  • We do have new pictures in from the Redrock, Oklahoma from a tornado that sent Redrock residents to the shelters on May 8, 2003. This was the same night as the Moore, OK and Oklahoma City, OK tornado. These pictures were in fact taken at the Frontier School in Redrock, OK.


  • See below for a Yahoo Map showing the start point of the May 8, 2003 Moore, Ok - Oklahoma City, OK tornado.


  • There is also a link here of mighty interest showing the comparison of the track between the May 3, 1999 and the May 8, 2003 Oklahoma City tornadoes. The similarity is astonishing.


  • Another similarity appeared between the May 3, 1999 Oklahoma City tornado and the May 9, Oklahoma City tornado. The second similarity was the tracking of the thunderstorm from Oklahoma City into Stroud, OK on Interstate 44 which is half-way between Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK. In 1999, Stroud suffered a great financial setback when their shopping mall was destroyed. Tonight, the weather spotters noted the tornado wall cloud passed very near Stroud's former shopping center.


  • May 8, 2003 Redrock, Oklahoma Tornado from Frontier School - Image 1 small
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    Redrock, Oklahoma - These pictures were in fact taken at the Frontier School in Redrock on May 8, 2003. Steve Shiever emailed these pictures to the Frontier School staff. Since my father-in-law is part of the Frontier School staff, he was able to forward these pictures to me.


    As a sidenote, as soon as my father-in-law called with the news of a tornado in Redrock, I grabbed the camcorder and took to the road. Redrock is about 25 miles south of my location. As it turned out, I traveled the wrong direction and found a river between myself and the tornado... I never actually saw the storm myself. With the river where it was, it put me too far from a bridge to let me catch back up with the storm. My sister went chasing that night also. You might be able to say she had somewhat better luck than I, but not really. She managed to stay closer to the storm, but had her windshield cracked by a golfball-sized piece of hail. She decided to leave the storm area rather than risk more hail damage.


    May 8th, 2003 Oklahoma City Tornado
    Click here to go to Yahoo Maps and view the actual map this image came from. This is where the May 8th, 2003 OKC tornado is purported to have touched down.
    Oklahoma City, OK - According to Channel 9 News in Oklahoma City, OK, the Map shown above notes the location where eye-witnesses say that the May 8th, 2003 OKC tornado touched down. You may click through on the image to go straight to Yahoo Maps to put the rest of OKC into context.

    To compare the tornado paths of May 3, 1999 and May 8, 2003 Click Here. (Warning: This image is 305 kb in size.) The similarity is simply astonishing!

    The airport seen to the left of the image is Will Rodgers International Airport. Yours truly lived in OKC for two years when I was a child. About where the designation is for I-44 to the south of SW 59th Street by the airport is where I lived when the 1972 tornado hit Will Rodgers Airport. We watched from the backyard as the tornado had risen back off the ground and the funnel passed over the school yard behind our house. I was seven years old at the time.




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