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What, more than two miles wide this thing was? >> reporter: yeah, we talked about this yesterday, carol and the day before, how i just have never seen a damage path like this damage path. where we had tornado damage two miles to the north and another half mile to the south of this interstate, i-40, and it was just -- i thought there is no possible way this could be an ef-3 tornado. they are going to upgrade this, and yesterday they did upgraded it to an ef-5 with wind speeds approaching 295 mile...

Monster tornado, it just kept spinning this wall cloud and the suction vortices would come straight down to the ground. you could also see the upward motion, too, so its not just the really violent horizontally rotating motion but also the updraft that caused some of that damage and thankfully at that time when the video was shot there was open farmland that went further east and caused damage. we saw some storm chasers and motorists that were thrown off the road. we pulled them out of their veh...

Miles south of that damage path so our thoughts and prayers definitely go out to the people out here in oklahoma city and south of oklahoma city in moore, because it is going to take years to rebuild. it looks like a war zone out there. this tornado took a hard turn and tornadoes that are this strong, you can see how volatile those vortices can be and scientifically in terms of tornadoes its right near the ground, the suction vortices, its a big mystery how fast the wind speeds can get in the su...

Would have been further -- we pulled them out of their homes, and we went to the damage path of the ef 5 i live, just two, three miles south of that.

Ground below. sometimes the tornadoes made contact with the ground and lift again and might make contact again 30 seconds or two minutes down the path. we dont know if it is on the ground exactly as it is crossing over there. seeing that traffic certainly if any cars are turned over or damaged nobody is getting off of that interstate any time soon. >> shepard: sometimes these things bounce along like a pogo stick. >> exactly. exactly. that is what i was just staying. they touch and lift back up ...

Lebanon, missouri to 11 miles west of hazard. quarter size hail and 70-mile an hour wind gusts reported. the source on that was weather radar. hail damage to vehicles and crops expected. expect considerable tree he damage. wind damage likely to mobile homes, roofs and outbuildings. many different areas in the path of this including bennett springs, decaturville, dry knob, eldridge, extreme southwestern part of fort leonard wood there. falcon and lebanon. the list is long. if you are are in the a...

And it was a dangerous situation. we saw severe structural damage. looked like some where in the union city el reno a)ea and then the same storm went through south oklahoma city and we were communicating with mike norman in the oklahoma city area to keep everybody warned in the path of the storms and right now, im trying to get to my house in norman which was two miles south of the ef5 damage path. we are driving through the ef5 damage path, what was that ten days ago and the same area had torna...

Get out of the path what is going on here. if they are saying the tornado threat is diminishing a little bit that doesnt mean we couldnt still see a good ef2 and maybe ef3 tornado. maybe not as wide as what we saw to the west of oklahoma city but sill a tornado that goes over a population area, a mobile home park or housing development or are business the same damage will be done. >> shepard: we are reading the latest from the oklahoma city wires. and speaking with the storm chasers as well. it ...

You are talking about torrential rains. flash flood warnings for the metro and tulsa. that is what the model continues to forecast. i wi&l continue to track a lowering down the cbs side of i-40. heading towards shawnee on i-40. i do not see a tornado on the ground. i say there is a strong likelihood that additional tornadoes potentially damaging making its way south and east of oklahoma city and it moves east of the oklahoma city area. >> jeff, i was just in the shawnee area last week and in man...

Lets bring in chris mcbee, a storm chaser. i dont know if you can see what were looking at right now, but theyre probably some of the more amazing pictures ive ever seen. chris, can you hear me? >> yes, im sorry, yes, i am here. >> i dont know if you can see what were showing on msnbc right now, but as i am sure you heard, perhaps you were out there today, a lot of people got taken by surprise and were put in danger today by the storm. >> you know, it really was quite a large tornado that made a...