The National Weather Service (web|news) has now confirmed that a tornado touched down in Broken Arrow Wednesday night.

From the air, in Ranger 8, we can see the damage was limited to an area roughly the length of a football field near 71st and 145th streets.

As far as tornados go, this was considered a baby, an EF-0 on the tornado scale with winds of roughly 75 m.p.h., but as you can see, even a baby tornado can raise a serious ruckus.

A cinder block wall was toppled and smashed, rafters from a roof, ripped out of the beams they were nailed to. down the street, the roof of an ambulance company, crumpled and shredded. Luckily, the EMT's were out on a call when it hit.

"While we were picking up the patient the sirens were going off the sky was black and we really ran her to the hospital, she needed to be at the hospital, soon as we dropped her off we got a phone call, we didn't have a roof anymore," says Debi Chowning of Integrity E.M.S.

Michelle Hawksworth, a business owner, ran her counter-top shop running on generaotr power after the tornado ripped the weatherhead off the wall, and tossed around granite like cheap formica.

"It just snapped 'em in half, actually a couple of 'em on the sink legs we actually reinforce with a piece of steel so that when you cut out for the sink it reinforces it, well, it even bent those rods," she says.

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