F5 Oklahoma Tornado May 3rd, 1999 | Violent Tornado Outbreak | Severe Weather Event | Violent Storms in Oklahoma, OH

STORM'S PATH HAS NO PITY

Editor's note:The following story was originally published May 16th, 1999 in The Oklahoman

In Jo Jamison's back yard south of Amber lie two overturned but salvageable bench swings. Next to one of them, the clothesline is ready for action, and two Bradford pear trees have shed their annual blossoms.

From the Archives: May 3rd articles from The Oklahoman

Piedmont Residents Unharmed by Storm 1999-05-04 PIEDMONT -- A tornado damaged residences but spared residents of this Canadian County community Monday night. Piedmont Fire Chief Rick Lofgren said that he had reports of damage to residences but...

Man Avoids Flying Truck In Restaurant 1999-05-04 MIDWEST CITY -- Only 15 seconds separated Mike Pederson from a rental truck in the dining room of the Cracker Barrel Restaurant in Midwest City on Monday evening. Pederson, a Cracker Barrel...

Killer Storm Spared Midwest City Crowd 1999-05-04 Editor's Note: Jim Willis is a former staff writer. He was in Midwest City on Monday to be inducted into the Midwest City High School Wall of Fame and was one of 700 people evacuated to the...

Victims Urged to Make Applications 1999-05-04 Oklahomans who suffered property damage in the latest siege of tornados were urged Tuesday to begin early in trying to get government help. A toll-free number is available for people needing...

Storm Trackers Examining Deadly Paths 1999-05-04 Monday's tornado outbreak began so quickly and was so long-lasting that National Weather Service meteorologists, still tracking developing violent weather, were unable to give an exact count of the...

Two Moore Schools in Shambles 1999-05-04 With a grade school in shambles, a high school heavily damaged and a technology center "flattened," Moore schools Superintendent Wayland Bonds wondered late Monday how the 1998-99 school year could...

Victims Scurry As Tornado Rakes Homes 1999-05-04 A half-mile wide tornado slammed into southwestern Oklahoma City about 7:15 p.m. Monday, killing at least one person, injuring numerous others and destroying or damaging as many as 100 homes....

Victims Tell Stories Of Fear, Outreach 1999-05-04 For residents of one Moore neighborhood, the tornado's approach was too familiar. When the area was hit by a tornado in October, Ronna Johnson and her family took cover in a closet. But when they...

Utility Crews Try to Assess Damage Toll 1999-05-04 Electric, gas and telephone utility crews were working as fast as possible Monday night trying to assess the extent of damage to their systems in the path of the metro area Oklahoma tornado. The...

Tornadoes Shred State 1999-05-04 An evening of terror gripped Oklahoma on Monday as tornado after tornado battered the state with a ferocity that stunned even seasoned storm veterans. The state medical examiner said 31 people...

Tornado Reports 1999-05-04 In what may become known as one of the worst outbreaks of tornadoes in state history, Monday's numerous twisters built rapidly. The first instance of severe weather came about 5 p.m., when a...

Roaring Monster Leaves Little 1999-05-04 MOORE -- As the monster roared overhead, sweeping cars from the driveway and churning the house into a swirl of splintered timbers and brick, air was sucked from the basement. Dust fell onto the...

Towns Pummeled By Twisters 1999-05-04 Monday's barrage of tornadoes wrecked homes, businesses and lives across the state. A tornado that killed one person in Dover nearly leveled the town of Mulhall, where virtually every structure...

Search Through Rubble Continues 1999-05-04 The death toll from Monday's murderous tornado outbreak climbed to 38 as authorities continued to comb through the debris of hundreds of homes and businesses damaged and destroyed across Oklahoma....

A Personal Account: When You Can't Go Home 1999-05-04 Editor's note : While covering the aftermath of the tornado that struck Moore on Monday, Oklahoman staff writer Nolan Clay discovered his own house at 324 Cedar Lane had been destroyed. No one...

Residents Shaken By Twister's Fury 1999-05-04 Charlotte Jeffries' oldest sister planned a trip to Oklahoma City on Wednesday. She was coming from Sacramento, Calif., to help her widowed sister prepared for a neighborhood garage sale next week....

Victims, Volunteers Flood Area Medical Centers 1999-05-04 Outside Hillcrest Medical Center, sirens wailed as ambulances kept arriving Monday night. Frazzled medical workers helped old men and women, heads and knees covered with bandages, into...

Twister's Damage Leaves Moore Without Power 1999-05-04 MOORE -- As darkness settled in, finding people became more difficult in this blacked-out city, all of which had lost power in the storm. The victims and the volunteers were easy to tell apart....

Storms, Tornado Threat Stops RedHawks Game 1999-05-04 Thunderstorms and the threat of tornadoes suspended play Monday night at Southwestern Bell Bricktown Ballpark, with the Oklahoma RedHawks owning a large lead. The RedHawks led Memphis 7-0 when...

TORNADOES SHRED STATE At Least 25 Killed; 1,000 Homes Destroyed in City Area Fierce Storms Flatten Entire Subdivisions 1999-05-04 An evening of terror gripped Oklahoma on Monday as tornado after tornado battered the state with a ferocity that stunned even seasoned storm veterans. Authorities confirmed there were at least 25...

Deadly Tornado Rips Through City 1999-05-04 A tornado reported to be at least a half-mile wide killed at least one person and damaged hundreds of homes in Moore, Oklahoma City and surrounding areas Monday night. The slow-moving storm...

'They Were in the House That's Gone' Victims, Volunteers Flood Area Medical Centers 1999-05-04 Outside Hillcrest Medical Center, sirens wailed as ambulances kept arriving Monday night. Frazzled medical workers helped old men and women, heads and knees covered with bandages, into...

Storm Trackers Examining Deadly Paths Destruction to Yield Clues to Count of Twisters That Struck State 1999-05-04 Monday's tornado outbreak began so quickly and was so long-lasting that National Weather Service meteorologists, still tracking developing violent weather, were unable to give an exact count of...

'It's Gone. It's All Gone.' Residents Shaken By Twister's Fury 1999-05-04 Charlotte Jeffries' oldest sister planned a trip to Oklahoma City on Wednesday. She was coming from Sacramento, Calif., to help her widowed sister prepared for a neighborhood garage sale next...

Piedmont Residents Unharmed by Storm 1999-05-04 PIEDMONT - A tornado damaged residences but spared residents of this Canadian County community Monday night. Piedmont Fire Chief Rick Lofgren said that he had reports of damage to residences but...

Man Avoids Flying Truck In Restaurant 1999-05-04 MIDWEST CITY - Only 15 seconds separated Mike Pederson from a rental truck in the dining room of the Cracker Barrel Restaurant in Midwest City on Monday evening. Pederson, a Cracker Barrel...

Killer Storm Spared Midwest City Crowd Tornado Veered From School 1999-05-04 Editor's Note: Jim Willis is a former staff writer. He was in Midwest City on Monday to be inducted into the Midwest City High School Wall of Fame and was one of 700 people evacuated to the field...

What Is a Tornado? 1999-05-04 While the violence and damage from tornadoes are well-known, the actual mechanics of these storms are complex and not completely understood. They can occur in a variety of situations but are...

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