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According to the recent National Weather Service in Norman, Okla tornado touched down at 2:56 p.m., 16 minutes after the first warning went out, and traveled for 20 miles. It was on the ground for 40 minutes, after that it struck the town of Newcastle and traveled about 10 miles to Moore, a populous suburb of Oklahoma City.
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It was a Category 4 tornado on the Enhanced Fujita scale, which measures tornado strength on a scale of 0 to 5. But the region has rarely had a tornado as big and as powerful as the one on Monday. Heavy-lifting equipment was deployed under bright floodlights as the operation went on through the night.
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More than 200 Oklahoma National Guardsmen as well as personnel from other states were called in to help in the search-and-rescue effort. It is said t be the major disaster of the year.President Barack Osama has declared a major disaster in Oklahoma and ordered federal authorities to join in the search efforts.
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