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Basic necessities wherever they can find them. first, another question remains just how powerful was this storm? for that lets bring in meteorologist chad myers at the cnn severe weather center. chad, was this strongest storm ever recorded? >> we may never know. we may never know because there wasnt a wind anemometer that could withstand the wind. theres nothing that would stand up to 195 miles per hour. how we will look to see whether this was possibly bigger than camille or some of the other b...

Tornado on the ground near perkins? >> yes. these are different cells associated with a dry line and the storms fired up on the dry line earlier and became individual storms with an individual updraft which sustains these. we are on the -- one of the further south ones. there are actually more storms back to the southwest which could also produce tornadoes later on as well. >> spencer, how often is there a super cell like this or different storms, different cells like these in oklahoma without a...

What im seeing right now. >> spencer joins us now on the phone, a storm chaser. spencer, where are you and what are you seeing? >> i am about three miles south of cole, oklahoma which is southeast of blanchard. we have a rapidly rotating wall cloud that developed in the last ten minutes and it looks like it could drop a tornado at any time. >> where are you in relation to -- we know that -- we heard from one of our local affiliates that there looked to be a tornado on the ground east of perkins ...

Affiliates say there looked to be a tornado on the ground east of perkins, which is about an hour northeast of oklahoma city. what can you tell us about that and what can you tell us about the tornado warnings in the area? >> we did have some reports of some funnel clouds associated with the perkins storm, jake, and that system continues to move off to the east here. you can see also it has some signs of rotation on this cell i believe we can put the information up on that. there is a warning on...

Care of. a large abundance of love and care coming out of the community. >> how soon, when did you seek shelter to -- from this storm? was it a few minutes? when did you go to your shelter? >> we didnt get into a shelter yet. were watching it in the house on tv. it is not far from our back door. when the sirens go off is when well decide to get in it. >> tammy glasgow, thank you so much and for your heroism last week. well check in with you later. >> o.j. >> cnn meteorologist chad myers is drivi...

Oklahomans see, or anyone in this part of the country, how often do they see super cells like this? how often do they turn into tornadoes? >> we get a thousand tornadoes in the u.s. on average, some years more some years less. not all of those are super cell thunderstorms. some are made by line echo wave patterns. theyre not as big a tornado, ef-0 or ef-1. this is my opinion only, just working in the business for as long as i have, that there are at least 60 days a year out of 365 that would hav...

Last week in moore, oklahoma at briarwood elementary where she bravely protected her students. she is at her house in moore right now. tammy, i assume youre taking cover. how are you taking cover? do you have a shelter, tornado shelter in your home? >> yes. we have a shelt inner ter in th yard, an in-ground shelter. >> how alert was moore and the surrounding area for this tornado as opposed to the one that struck a week and a half ago? >> well, thats hard to say. im home today of course on summe...

>> reporter: im about ten miles east of chickasha, oklahoma now on the road up toward blanchard where i believe the storm is heading. this storm is headed to the areas that were hit so very hard, jake, and even if we dont get a tornado and hopefully we do not, because this storm did lose some organization just in the past 15 minutes. thats why were on the move going a little bit farther to the east to get a little bit better look at this tornado or potential tornadic storm. right now it is just ...

Particular cell. also severe thunderstorm cell with a tornado warning on it here southwest of norman is the main area of rotation. the warning, the warn cell is moving to the east. also, around 25 miles per hour blanchard and purcell in the cross hairs here. over 22,000 people affected here and this is the same cell that came out of chickashay, the same area where chad myers is right now tracking this storm. weve had reports of a lowering wall cloud. no reports of a tornado yet. certainly could ...

I-35 in a very populated area in that corridor from oklahoma city, moore, down to norman. were watching as it moves off to the east. it has been moving very slowly and that may be one of the reasons the organization isnt there yet. it is still very hot and muggy and all the humidity is being used by this one storm. it is the big dog, the super cell thunderstorm that is headed to a populated area. well keep watching it for you. >> chad, i was just texting with someone i met when i was in norman, ...