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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
510 PM CST TUE MAY 4 1999

...MORE PRELIMINARY INFORMATION ON THE MAY 3 TORNADO OUTBREAK IN 
CENTRAL OKLAHOMA...

SURVEYS BY NOAA METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON...AND WILL 
RESUME ON WEDNESDAY...HOWEVER PRELIMINARY SURVEY RESULTS INDICATE  
THAT A PORTION OF THE TORNADO DAMAGE FROM THE BRIDGE CREEK AREA  
WEST OF NEWCASTLE...INTO THE EAST LAKE ESTATES DEVELOPMENT IN 
SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA CITY IS IN THE F5 CATEGORY.  THIS IMPLIES WIND 
SPEEDS IN EXCESS OF 260 MPH.  THIS WAS PART OF THE TRACK PRIOR TO 
MOORE AND MIDWEST CITY.

ANOTHER VIOLENT TORNADO...RATED F4...OCCURRED AT DOVER IN KINGFISHER 
COUNTY.  A THIRD VIOLENT TORNADO...ALSO RATED F4...OCCURRED THREE 
MILES EAST OF CRESCENT.

A NUMBER OF OTHER SITES HAVE BEEN SURVEYED...INCLUDING...

POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY...ONE F2 AND TWO F1 TORNADOES FROM ABOUT ONE 
MILE EAST OF PINK TO THE NORTHWEST SIDE OF SHAWNEE...TO JUST SOUTH 
OF MEEKER IN LINCOLN COUNTY.

LOGAN COUNTY...F3 DAMAGE FROM JUST SOUTH OF CIMARRON CITY TO 
MULHALL...WITH THE F4 DAMAGE EMBEDDED EAST OF CRESCENT.

KINGFISHER COUNTY...IN ADDITION TO THE F4 AT DOVER...F3 DAMAGE 
STARTING ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DOVER.  TWO OTHERS...RATED 
F1...FROM A FEW MILES NORTHEAST OF GEARY INTO SOUTHWEST KINGFISHER 
COUNTY.  ANOTHER...RATED F0...ABOUT 4 MILES LONG...WEST AND 
NORTHWEST OF OKARCHE.

CADDO AND GRADY COUNTIES...
THE START OF AT LEAST TWO TRACKS IN THE VICINITY OF ANADARKO ARE 
STILL BEING SURVEYED...BUT INITIAL RATINGS ARE IN THE F1 RANGE.  THE 
START OF THE TRACK LEADING INTO BRIDGE CREEK WAS RATED F3 TO F4 FROM 
WEST TO NORTH OF CHICKASHA.

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