*EXTREMELY RARE!!* Moore, Oklahoma Tornado Emergency Update with LIVE VOICE!! (EAS #816)

You know it’s serious When they do a live voice

They actually interviewed the guy who sounded this alarm. They only do it in the most extreme situations. He said they hadn't issued one in over 10 years until this tornado came along. Scary stuff.

You know you're fucked when someone from the weather station comes on the air

You know it’s a life threating emergency when the voice is live

This must be really rare. I never knew the NWS still occasionally did live voice. I know a live voice could be heard back in the 1990s.

I think they did a live one here just because of how busy they were. Less time to read out loud than type, especially when you're in the middle of a tornado emergency. The guy clearly didn't sound upset and the message wasn't unusually "enhanced", so I doubt it was done for impact purposes.

I hate that day....smh. This brings back those memories of that day. It almost feels therapeutic reliving those warnings, thank you for posting!

THAT WEATHER SERVICE VOICE SCARES THE S**T OUT OF ME!!!!!

A Tornado Emergency is different from a Tornado Warning. A Tornado Emergency indicates critical threat to structures and people. A Tornado Warning indicates a normal level of threat from a tornado.

I didn't even realize there were events that an actual live voice came on air. Wow. That's how you know you're fucked.

This is a severe weather statement. A tornado warning remains in effect until 3:45 for northwestern McClain, and southern Oklahoma and northern Cleveland counties. This is a Tornado Emergency for Moore and southern portions of Oklahoma City. At 3:08, we are tracking a large extremely dangerous tornado 4 miles west of Moore, moving northeast at 20 miles an hour, little addition to the tornado , large destructive hail up to tennis ball size can be expected. Midwest City, Moore, Newcastle, Stanley Draper Lake, Tinker Air Force Base, and Valley Brook are directly affected by this.

Live voices are usually used when all of the AI voices are down in the area, but it's also used on stuff like weekly tests or somethin.

I do NOT want to be INSIDE the moore tornado EVER AGAIN! I will never forget this!

Wow, proves this was serious, last time I heard a live voice was a CAE for Kansas City a few years ago.

I love the severe weather statements, it’s pretty cool how they did the live one

You have to live within the broadcast range of the radio tower for the station that issued it. It's usually a multi-county area. You don't have to live within in the actual town to receive the broadcast.

that beep put a chill in my throat!

One of the problems when you do that is that it becomes very easy to miss tone alerting new tornado warnings elsewhere if you are focused on just one large tornado.

On That Day, 37 Tornadoes Broke In From Waco To Dallas To Oklahoma City Through Missouri Up Towards Indianapolis, And even 2 Tornadoes Broke Into Colorado And Kansas Border. 281/5 Wind Reports Broke Free From Waco up Towards Northern Michigan. And 129/8 Hail Reports Blew Through Dallas To Indianapolis From Parts Of Northern Michigan And some in Iowa To North Carolina.

I remember this EF5 tornado of Moore Oklahoma VERY well like it happened yesterday. This day was catastrophic. The NWS rarely ever goes live like that over the EAS system. If you hear them go live: THAT'S SERIOUS. I'm a an advanced SKYWARN storm chaser for them & have heard them live only 1 time before in person. Reed Timmer himself was shaken to the core over this tornado when he saw what it did to town. The quote I remember most from that day that sticks with me more than 10 years later: "This is May 3rd all over again." I can never unsee this tornado from 2013, or the one from 1999 when I hear the name Moore, OK. 2024 will mark 11 years without an EF5 is we don't see one this next year. I have a sneaky feeling we may see one after 11 years with this El Niño ramping up.