JIM MORET, CNN ANCHOR: These pictures from earlier this evening show a storm brewing outside Oklahoma City. What has developed between then and now is an enormous tornado by some accounts more than half a mile wide. It has reportedly destroyed some 350 homes. (</s>END VIDEO CLIP, MAY 3, 1999) JEFF FLOCK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This was just a massive tornado. It was a mile wide at one point, and it cut a path, I think it was about 19 mile long, and so just tremendous devastation. And the thing that we are finding out is that they really don't always hit in the country. They more often hit in the country simply because there is more country. But this took out a suburb of Oklahoma City. These were entire communities flattened. The power of this tornado, with those 300 mile-per-hour winds, just leveled homes. (</s>BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, MAY 3, 1999) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I am worried about the people in those houses that are flattened. I mean, there is probably 50 houses within four blocks of me that are all flattened, and you know that there were people in some of those houses.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Imagine a line of homes, like a neighborhood, gone, just completely down. So it is an amazing site here.</s>FLOCK: This was an F-5, the most powerful tornado you can get. These were winds in Oklahoma City that were in excess of 300 miles an hour. The devastation was just amazing.
CNN 20: Severe Tornadoes Hit Oklahoma, May 3, 1999