Storm chaser shows tennis-ball sized hail while tracking storms

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AccuWeather's Tony Laubach reports from a hailstorm in Oklahoma and discusses the severe weather outlook for the rest of the weekend.

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00:00 We are just gotten out of a pretty

00:01 hefty little hail storm.

00:02 We got a little bit of rain that's

00:03 come in on the backside of this,

00:04 which is a shame.

00:05 So I was going to give you a walk

00:06 and talk and show you some of the

00:07 big hail out there on the ground.

00:09 So you're just going to have to

00:09 settle for the video here.

00:10 We'll show that to you here.

00:12 This just fresh in.

00:12 This was moments ago.

00:14 We saw a hail up to tennis ball size.

00:16 You see some of that there in my hands.

00:18 That was enough to to wreck some

00:20 windshields, mine included,

00:22 as we were there on I-35

00:23 working our way in.

00:24 This is a pretty hefty hail.

00:26 Saw a lot of it in the ground,

00:29 actually in holes when it hit the ground.

00:31 And you see what kind of my

00:33 windshield looks like there.

00:34 These are some of the shots

00:34 they're panning across

00:36 of some of the shots that we took

00:37 as we were working our way in.

00:38 This kind of snuck up on us

00:40 here at the last second.

00:41 And unfortunately,

00:42 we were unable to make it in.

00:43 Several motorists there

00:44 taking shelter under an overpass.

00:46 Folks, please don't do that.

00:48 We beg of you.

00:48 Do not clog overpasses.

00:50 There were a lot of people

00:51 sitting on I-35

00:52 when this rolled through

00:52 because they were unable to get through

00:54 because people were parking

00:55 under the overpasses.

00:56 But some folks there

00:57 taking advantage of the truck stops.

00:59 That is much more acceptable.

01:00 Certainly wanted to go ahead

01:01 and keep that in mind.

01:02 This storm has moved off

01:03 to the northeast

01:04 and has done so fairly quickly.

01:05 We've got tornado

01:06 warnings on that storm.

01:08 Nothing confirmed with that so far.

01:09 We have had a few tornado

01:11 warnings scattered throughout the day.

01:12 This is another long day.

01:13 We were on tornadoes

01:14 yesterday by 1 o'clock.

01:16 We're seeing a very similar event,

01:17 a little bit more messy

01:18 down here so far.

01:20 I'm kind of curious to see

01:21 how that's going to affect

01:21 the overall evolution of today.

01:23 We are under a PDS,

01:25 potentially dangerous situation.

01:27 Tornado watch,

01:27 a elevated layer of tornado

01:29 watch here across central Oklahoma,

01:32 and that's going to extend

01:33 into northeast Oklahoma

01:34 and southeast Kansas as well.

01:35 So we are expecting

01:36 quite an active day again.

01:38 It's been a little bit

01:39 of a messy start so far.

01:40 A lot of storms have kind of happened

01:42 here on the western

01:42 northwestern parts of Oklahoma.

01:44 So really, our focus, Melissa,

01:46 is going to be a little bit further south.

01:48 We probably will start to sneak south

01:49 toward the I-40 area

01:51 and get west of Oklahoma City

01:52 to watch these storms

01:53 as they move out of southwest

01:54 Oklahoma as well as Texas.

01:56 And those are going to be

01:57 the storms we're going to probably track.

01:59 Those, I think, are going to pose

02:00 the biggest threat for tornadoes

02:01 as we go later in the afternoon.

02:03 Again, up here,

02:04 it's been kind of a messy situation.

02:06 Obviously, some very, very large hail.

02:07 You saw that in the video.

02:08 2.5 inches is what I measured here.

02:11 That was after it gave

02:13 my windshield a little kiss.

02:14 So we are already seeing

02:15 some impactful storms in the region.

02:17 We expect those to continue again.

02:19 That's a PDS tornado watch in effect.

02:21 We'll see those tornado watches

02:22 lining up throughout

02:22 the rest of the day today.

02:23 So again, expecting another busy day

02:25 and this is going to go

02:26 late into the night

02:27 as we get further east

02:29 into Oklahoma and Kansas

02:30 and probably into Missouri as well.

02:32 All right, meteorologist Tony Laubach

02:33 making the trip from Nebraska

02:35 and Iowa south to Oklahoma

02:38 for the severe weather.

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