More severe storms target central US

AccuWeather's Tony Laubach reports from Oklahoma with an update on where more severe weather is starting to form.

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00:00Right now from Cimarron County and Oklahoma, Tony.

00:07Supercell for the better part of the last couple hours, you're seeing the leading edge,

00:12kind of the shelf cloud of this storm as it is making its approach here to the U.S. 287

00:16north of Boise City. For 20 years I have been pronouncing it wrong.

00:20Thank you, Damian, for the correction on that. But this is first, really the first

00:23good view we've had under this storm as we've been kind of waiting for it to get off the Raton Mesa.

00:28This would be between the towns of Campo, Colorado and north of

00:32Boise City, Oklahoma. So basically kind of paralleling the

00:35Colorado-Oklahoma line here in the Oklahoma Panhandle. Expecting some pretty

00:40big hail out of this. Currently carrying a tornado warning for three inch diameter

00:44hail and radar indicated rotation. Obviously we've got a pretty good view

00:48under the storm. Certainly do not see anything tornadic at this point. So right now my big concern

00:52for this, especially for folks that are making that drive, this is a very busy stretch, especially

00:56for semi-trucks, making the journey here along 287, 385 between Boise City and Campo.

01:02We'll show you the radar here. Obviously, as we mentioned last hour, we're really kind of far

01:07away from the radars at this point. Both Amarillo and Pueblo are about equidistance from this. So

01:12it's tough to get a good bearing exactly where the worst of this core is. A lot of this we're

01:17tracking visually and I think we're still probably going to see that core push over this area here

01:22over the next 20 or so minutes and it's going to bring quite a bit of hail and probably some large

01:27hail with that as well. So if you are kind of stopping at truck stops there from Springfield to

01:32Campo or Boise City moving north, I would certainly recommend you just kind of hang out there. This

01:37storm will pass harmlessly between those two areas. That is the good news. So really kind of moving

01:42into the middle of nowhere right now. But unfortunately, we don't have that luxury for

01:48forever. The storm's kind of drifting east-southeast. So over toward Keys, that is a particular town that

01:56might have some issues. And wouldn't exactly write off Elkhart or Guymon, Elkhart, Kansas,

02:02there in the extreme southwest corner of Kansas, or Guymon, Oklahoma, which is the next significant

02:07town in the Oklahoma panhandle off to the east. Certainly want to keep an eye on this storm here.

02:12We do have concern that as the storm continues to move east and we get later into the evening,

02:17the tornado potential on this could ramp up and we could certainly start to see that impacting some

02:22folks the further east we get into the Oklahoma panhandle. So we're going to continue to track

02:27this storm here through the evening right now. It remains discreet, so it does have the air all to

02:31itself. We'll see exactly how this continues to evolve as we go through the evening. But again,

02:36north of Boyce City, south of Campo in Springfield, Colorado, that is the area of concern. So again,

02:43mainly an issue to travelers, especially the truckers. This is a huge trucking route here.

02:47So if you're watching us from one of the truck stops in those areas, hang tight and we'll let you

02:53know when this is clear.