Joplin father's desperate search for son

Michael Hare desperately searches for his 16-year-old son, Lantz, missing since Sunday's tornado in Joplin, Missouri.

Lantz was last seen in front of the Dillon's on 20th Street in Joplin, Missouri. He is six-feet tall and weighs 190 pounds.

He has sandy brown hair that is long in the front and hangs over his eyes.

He may have facial lacerations and some sort of head trauma. He was last seen with Johnathan Taylor, also known as JT, who survived the tornado.

The photo posted is three years old, so he looks a little older now.

If you have information, please contact Hare's family directly at (417) 396-6523 or (918) 497-8498 (Michael's cell phone). For additional information, go to the "Help Find Lantz Hare" Facebook page.

Here's a transcript of the exchange as seen in the video:

SPITZER: Michael, when's the last time you heard from Lance or have any word about where he might be?

MICHAEL HARE, FATHER OF MISSING BOY: I actually talked to him the night before the tornado and his little brother called me and said that he was trying to get home in it. And that severe hail had hit his car and nobody had heard from him.

And that was roughly about right 10 minutes after the tornado went through Joplin. And I actually live in Tulsa, and I was in my car on the way to Joplin as soon as I got that from my youngest son.

SPITZER: Well, I hear that he was in the car with somebody else who has survived. Is there any way to use that lead as a way to help track Lance down?

HARE: Well, that lead was actually how we found the car, Lance's car, and where a start point. Before that, there were just massive searches in - I mean an 8 block by 25 block radius. All my friends, my ex-wife's friends, my wife's friends, my friends, everyone was just looking for him.

And through that kid being found at Freeman Hospital, we were able to locate the car, as soon as he came to, he got life-flighted out of Freeman Hospital here in Joplin to Springfield, Missouri, to St. John's.

And through him coming around, we were able to pinpoint where the car was, the last place, the grocery store that they pulled into and the window, the front window and the back window imploded. He jumped in the backseat and that was the last time he actually seen my son. SPITZER: Look, I don't want to create false hopes, but is there any sense that it's good news that you haven't found any sign of him right near the car and that maybe he's just - we know communications are incredibly hard right now in the whole region. Any possibility he's somewhere else and just can't reach you somehow?

HARE: Luckily, we all have cell phones and we've gotten out to hospitals from Dallas to St. Louis to Kansas City to Rogers, Arkansas, and no news is good news right now. I guess you could say, as long as nobody pinpoints where he's at, there's still hope. We just want to find him.

SPITZER: Look, everything we hear is that people are going through every house, lifting up everything that can be moved to look for people, to look for survivors. And as you say, the fact that he hasn't been found has got to be some form of good news.

HARE: From the firefighters to National Guard to Lance's friends that actually located the car to, you know, we got from J.T, Jonathan Taylor, the kid that was with Lance, where to look for the car.

But one of Lance's friends with the Bridge Minister, it's a Christian-based organization here in Joplin was actually the ones that found the car and we were all there within minutes. And firefighters, National Guard, cadaver dogs and we've ran every hospital.

We've ran every lead and thank God you guys put us on to get it out there, maybe somebody's seen Lance hare. He's 16, 190 pounds, 6 feet tall and his family just wants him back.

SPITZER: We'll put that picture up on the screen so everybody can see it and maybe we'll get word of where he might be. J.T. is the name of his friend who was with him in the car.

Does J.T. remember anything about where Lance said he might go or what condition Lance was in when the tornado was hitting?

HARE: No. J.T. was actually - when he came to at Freeman and my ex-wife, Michelle, was - we were all on our way there, but she got there first and she got to talk to him before they took him back to the E.R. and he said the only thing he remembered was walking up in a van on his way to Freeman Hospital.

And since then he has been in critical condition in the Trauma Unit in St. John's. He's been able to give the nurse leads to give us about where and how it all went down, like I say, the windows imploded. He jumped in the backseat and next thing you know, he was in a van.

So now he remembers being at Dylan's and subsequently we found the car, and through that, a National Guard member told us that he had found Lance, wasn't sure about his condition - or somebody fitting Lance's description, and that he was life-flighted, and we just don't know.

We've called 150, 200 hospitals. We've done everything we can. Now it's a waiting game to find him. Hopefully he'll wake up somewhere and call his dad.

SPITZER: What is the best way for people to reach you if, in fact, they find Lance?

HARE: My cell phone is 918-497-8498 and we have phone charges for the house, the car. We haven't been home, but we find a way to charge our phones. We will accept every phone call. Every lead, we will run down. We won't leave anything unturned.

SPITZER: Here's what we're going to do. We're going to take that phone number and put it up on our web site, so anybody who see Lance's picture up on this broadcast and can go to our web site cnn.com/inthearena, and obviously, we're praying that he's alive and doing well.

HARE: Thank you and there are two web sites, there's one on Facebook, find Lance Pantz, and another one that is findlancehare.com.

SPITZER: All right, just one last question, what condition was the car in when you found it?

HARE: It actually looked like it had rolled over. There was the grocery store, railroad tracks, and his car was found about 150, 200 feet away and they originally started in the grocery store parking lot. It looks like it just rolled and rolled and rolled, I have no idea how many times, but the car is destroyed.

Here are clips of our coverage of tornadoes in Oklahoma that struck on May 24, 2011:

And here are clips of our coverage of the Joplin, Missouri, tornado, which struck on May 22, 2011: