On May 3, 1999, an EF5 tornado ripped through Bridge Creek, Oklahoma, with winds reaching a world-record 320 mph. Homes were shredded, cars hurled like toys, and entire neighborhoods flattened in seconds. Amid the devastation, rescuers found something impossible: A baby, torn from a home by the storm, alive under the debris. The child survived one of the strongest tornadoes ever recorded—a storm so violent it scoured pavement off roads. That baby became one of the few miracles pulled from a day

Live update from OKC ahead of an active severe weather day FRIDAY across parts of the southern Plains, including the threat of strong tornadoes afternoon and evening central/northern TX, southern OK through the Arklatex overnight. Storm chasing for AccuWeather | Reed Timmer Extreme Meteorologist