Tornado Damage Reported Outside Oklahoma City

A tornado-warned storm damaged homes and businesses in central Oklahoma late on Thursday night, May 11, with more severe weather expected on Friday, the National Weather Service (NWS) said.

Footage captured by Charles Finley shows a tornadic cloud swirl as he filmed from the town of Washington, and storm damage in Noble, located less than eight miles away, on Thursday night.

The NWS confirmed an EF-1 tornado hit the towns of Cole and Noble on Thursday and crews were assessing damage in the area. Credit: Charles Finley via Storyful

Video transcript

[EMERGENCY VEHICLE SIRENS]

[TORNADO SIREN BLARES]

- Tornado on the ground, y'all. Sirens are going off. It's huge. It's massive.

[TORNADO SIRENS CONTINUE TO BLARE]

- Don't overinflate it. It's not that big.

- Hey, you know what?

[LAUGHTER]

[EMERGENCY VEHICLE SIRENS]

[EMERGENCY VEHICLE APPROACHES]

- Oh, boy.

- Thank God, [INAUDIBLE].

[INDISTINCT VOICES ON RADIO]

- The lights, the lights.

- Oh, there's the donut place they were talking about.

- Yeah, Donut Palace.

- Wow.

- Whoa! There's a whole-- wow!

- Look at all those power lines on the ground.

[INDISTINCT VOICES ON RADIO]

- See some stuff down over there.