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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Oklahoma Tornado Trail of Destruction [Watch (HLS stream): Oklahoma Tornado Trail of Destruction](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/KjHP0a1U.m3u8) (2:18)  _Published 2013-05-22. CNN reporter Chris Cuomo gets in a hellicopter to trace the devestating path of the Oklahoma tornado._ --- Jul 27, 2023 3:35 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [](/video/ERWSPuVi/) ![Fatal, Violent Storms Cut Through The Midwest And South, Spawning Tornadoes \[VERTICAL\] ](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/ERWSPuVi/poster.jpg?width=720)02:01 ### Fatal, Violent Storms Cut Through The Midwest And South, Spawning Tornadoes \[VERTICAL\] [President Trump Addresses Nation Amid COVID-19 Outbreak](/video/vfJuEXX8/) ### President Trump Addresses Nation Amid COVID-19 Outbreak [Severe Storms, Tornadoes Turn Fatal In Midwest](/video/ZNuDzCO4/) ### Severe Storms, Tornadoes Turn Fatal In Midwest --- ## Transcript We're gonna take you through the tornado's path from beginning to end. If you look down here you're gonna see a brown line, right. Starts with this debris field that starts going in this direction. That is actually the tornado's trail and as you see, it's going to get much more dramatic as we get near a populated area. You literally can trace with your finger a line where the tornado went. The path is completely obvious. It's about a block and a half wide and you notice it just by seeing everything that's destroyed. Everything that looks just like paper on the ground, those are homes, those are timbers, those are roofs, those are cars. There're two major time components here. 16 minutes, that was the warning window before the tornado touched down, and then a 10 minute window, during which this went from heavy wind to a tornado having the ability to destroy everything in its path. [ SOUND ] Oh, my God. This is where the tornado was. Look at the difference between life and death. Between losing everything and losing nothing. Over water, you'll see it looks like it disappears. Then when it touches down on land again, the destruction resumes. Right now we're flying at 2, 500 feet above the ground. Scientists say that debris from the tornado can get ten times as high as we are right now into the air. Look at the trees. It looks like people pulled them up and laid them down there, just like they were weeding their garden, but those are huge, old growth pine trees. Cars are just littered along the trail. They were never there. They weren't parked there, they were tossed like toys. When you look at the debris down there, you understand why search and rescue is so difficult and so time consuming. It's hard to get in these areas and once you do, to find your way through those homes is literally like digging through a haystack. One of the worst parts of this tornado's path is that it is one that this community has seen before. In 1999 and in 2003, there were terrible tornadoes here that carved almost the same path through this community. This part of the community really shows you the randomness and intensity of the tornado. 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