26 years ago today, the May 3, 1999 #tornado outbreak happened, including the strongest tornado in History - the Bridge Creek to Moore to OKC F5. I was a freshman meteorology student at the University of Oklahoma, and we had just finished our calculus exam when we piled in the soft top Geo Tracker, driven by Matt Sannes. We blasted down I44 to target the dry line down near Altus, but ran into a lead renegade supercell that formed off a horizontal convective roll near Lawton. The storm looked lik

Do you remember the AMAZING rescue of "Mud Baby?" Aleah was 10 months old when she was sucked from her mother's arms during the Bridge Creek-Moore tornado on May 3, 1999. She was then rescued from the mud by a deputy. https://tinyurl.com/mvnkutn8 | KOCO 5 News