The tornado that ripped through suburban Oklahoma City, killing at least 24, could be seen from Bob Stoops’ house.

Oklahoma’s football coach lives just south of Moore, Okla., in the northern part of Norman. He watched the devastation unfold on TV from OU's football offices, but his family saw it through the back window of their home, according to The Associated Press.

Stoops told ESPN the twister destroyed the homes of two of his coaches, a graduate assistant and a strength coach.

“I was very aware; it was very close to home,” he said in the interview. “As it traveled, it missed us, but it stayed on the ground too long, there was too much devastation and the children ... any loss of life is just terrible. We have to do all we can to help them.”

Southmoore (Moore, Okla.) High School football coach Jeff Brickman was thankful he had canceled Monday’s spring practice. He told the Tulsa World he and his players were watching film in the field house when the mile-wide tornado rolled in.

"It hit right when school was about to let out," Brickman said. "All the kids in school were in shelters and we had a bunch of kids in the field house with helmets on in the bathrooms. It was pretty terrifying. It came right by the school."

Many players and coaches lost their homes.

Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin Durant responded to the tornado by donating $1 million to the Red Cross for disaster relief.