officials say the twister crossed an interstate, struck a motel and then ripped through a mobile home park flipping and leveling homes there. oklahoma is among the states that have seen a massive outbreak of more than 230 tornadoes in just the last ten days. i want to bring in cnn's ivanka brer -- ivan cabrera in the cnn weather center. >> there is not. and we are now on day 11. we've been keeping track of that number. we just had to update it because we had tornadoes on the ground. i'll go through this context. 241 tornadoes in the last 11 days. there's been a tornado on the ground in the last 11 days across somewhere in the u.s. from about new mexico all the way to pennsylvania. this was, of course, the el reno, oklahoma tornado. national weather service crews have been out there. because of the damage they saw they've. able to tell us the kinds of winds that did that damage that you're seeing there, 140 to 145.