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Beach. continuing coverage of severe weather that is rocking the heartland of america. the midwest, parts of indiana, illinois, and parts of kentucky, and severe warnings out this afternoon and i can tell you we have storm chasers out and about in central mississippi, our chief meteorologist is like if the fox weather center with an update. rick: there was tornado that went to the north of chattanooga with reports of damage and critical injuries in that area. that is the first batch of storms th...

From the tornado, and we will have tornadoes crossing i-65 in ten minutes. >>shepard: jeff, what area is that? >>reporter: southern indiana west of louisville and east evansville along highway 64 and coming from the northwest suburbs of louisville right new. >>shepard: all right. if you are not familiar and you live in tornado alley noaa weather radio gives the best updates and they work in the power goes down. the 1st much -- pretty much a more able day in cincinnati, louisville, indiana, and a...

High risk, and a lot of destruction and a lot devastating tornado in the ohio valley this afternoon. >>shepard: we hope some of funnel clouds will not touch down. they are, that is often the case. they form, stay in the air and dissipate before they hit the ground. rick is in our extreme weather center and watching the same cells. what do you see? rick: you see somebody on the ground there giving us those reports and you look at radar and you see the radar and you can see that and someone has to...

But this is possibly going to bring us ef3 or ef4 and not out of the question to see ef5 tornado and what we will see, you look, we are missing a couple pieces of data. but the cells are heading together. these tornadoes can get on the ground and stay for miles and miles. they continue to cause that destruction so we are talking about long lived big tornadoes that we have seen in harrisburg, the ef4, and last spring, that caused the damage. a very dangerous situation we are setting up the next f...

Jeff? >>shepard: rick we will work to get back in to with him. the storm chasers have been showing us patterns all along and in the box areas you were showing us the winds come and go. it will be sunny and the clouds drop, and it is ominous. rick: generally you get the worst of the tornadoes with a nice sunny day, the heating of the day, heats the hair, and that shoots up throughout the afternoon, and this morning, though, we had a lot of storms that happened across alabama and that acts to stab...

Unless breaking news changes everything. >> but first from fox at 3:00, in miami, this afternoon, we begin with a fox news weather alert and word of more tornadoes to whiching down in the midwest and the south with new reports of clouds spotted near harrisburg, illinois, the sail town hard hit by a powerful tornado year. a reporter on the scene says he her warning sirens a short team ago this afternoon. and in alabama officials say tornadoes destroyed several homes in huntsville, in the northern...

Pretty big founds and in louisville a lot of rotation so that is scary. a big area under threat here. you can see all of this red, the moderate risk and this morning, a high risk. they do this less than ten times a year with that kind of a threat but it includes cincinnati, through louisville, lexington, and around the nashville area under a high risk for tornadoes. very rough situation on our hands and it will go in to the overnight hours toward the eastern side of this and. and headed in to th...