Large tornado touches down in Missouri

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This large tornado was caught touching down live on the AccuWeather Network by Tony Laubach from Blodgett, Missouri, on May 16. The central and eastern U.S. continue to face a high tornado risk.

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00:00tornado on the ground this is a biggie folks it's coming right now this again is making an approach

00:04to i-55 the location pretty much the exact same as where we were just moments ago this is going

00:10to pass hopefully just to my north but you can see this tornado ongoing right now this is live

00:15on camera a very very uh doesn't look too terribly strong i'm not seeing a lot of debris lofted up

00:22but certainly this is not going to be a good thing if you get caught in this again this is going to

00:25be just uh outside south of haywood city is where this is currently at right now again this is a

00:32full condensed tornado you were seeing this live here on the accuweather network

00:37this is the second uh tornado we've seen here in just the last few minutes and this is uh

00:42strengthening it appears to definitely be strengthening you can see the debris coming up here

00:46yeah again so if you're a hayward city blaget and points to the east again confirmed tornado this

00:55is happening as we speak right now this is going to pass just off to my north but this is going to

01:01cross i-55 if this continues on so this is something you definitely are going to want to make sure

01:07you are waiting for a lot of traffic right now uh currently sitting kind of in this area

01:13so a lot of folks are seeing this again you're seeing this live here you can really tell

01:18you can't miss this and we are seeing debris there is some pretty good debris starting to be lofted up

01:23out of this thing now so i would say this is a strong tornado for sure lots of debris in this storm

01:29uh you can't tell what uh some trees definitely being flipped around in there

01:35but this is definitely a strong tornado you were watching here

01:40yeah big time again this is not uh this is still west of i-55 it's going to be

01:47very close to i-55 here soon lots of debris lots of tree debris it looks like here we're kind of in a

01:53sparsely populated area so there is some good news there but unfortunately again we've got a couple

02:00of towns blaget you were in the path of this i'm going to flip around here shortly just as this thing

02:06starts to cross because again this is going to cross the interstate pretty soon so i'm going to go and

02:11flip around but yeah large tornado in progress this is heading toward i-55

02:17near blaget confirmed tornado get back to radar we'll keep you updated here

02:23you

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