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And then damage north of that. that was f-2 or f-3 damage without a doubt, cars upside down and the rest of the cells died out and the circulation was amazing on the radar but never got down to one tornado to make big damage. we now know that the moore toned that went across was an ef-0, about 60, 70, 80 miles per hour, so really blowing things around. you can get just as much as ef zero and behind me is todays story. the story of the day is flooding. thats a road. isnt a useable road any more. ...

How does that compare to the damage you saw on may 20th, 21st 22nd in moore, oklahoma? >> a good question. moore was more of an urban area, everything was closely packed together you had a bank next a movie theater next to a home, really easy to get an idea of just how bad the damage s here, we are much more drawn out. we dont have as many homes packed close together, dont have the damage. the damage still is very, very bad but it doesnt camp pair to moore vish any terms of seeing so much damage...

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...

Ef-0 and ef-1. there can be point that is are ef-5. people say why arent you telling us this is an ef-5. we dont know yet. everything happened so fast. the explosive nature of the storms happens so fast, we have to survey the damage afterwards. we have a chart that tells us. we look at the damage and say thats probably 200-mile-an-hour wind that caused that damage. 200-mile-an-hour winds is when we get the ef-5 range. its the highest. i want to show you on google, not everything was ef-5. we sta...

In moore? >> i sure hope so. we do see the disaster hopefully teaches lessons and people take the lessons seriously. one thing we want people to learn, like with what happened in moore, we can build again. we can have better, safer, stronger homes, schools, businesses, hospitals. not necessarily against an ef-5 but certainly an ef-0, ef-1, ef-2. those kinds of damages we dont have to continue to see. >> in tom costellos piece he point had out shelters were 8 to $10,000. i saw one estimate a litt...

Four surveyors on the ground, teams of two. and they did find that it was ef-5 damage as weve told you there at the briarwood elementary school. max winds of 200 to 210. the blue coloring is where it was ef-0. ef-2 in yellow. the intensity changed dramatically as the tornado was on the ground. these storms are always evolving. it was an ef-5 for a very short period of time. notice the bright red. thats when it was ef-4. almost the worst of it in the strongest this tornado was was unfortunately w...

Know, everywhere you look, you know, you could be looking at tornado damage. were with our tornado expert the weather channel dr. greg forbes and dr. forbes, kind of the question is, how big is this tornado, how far did it go? what is your sense. >> my sense of the total destruction is its about three blocks of this subdivision neighborhood, so its probably about a quarter mile wide of total destruction. we were down a little bit on the south edge of the tornado. there most of the houses are sti...

H habitable. so im thinking it probably edge ef-0 to soft edge ef-0, at least a mile wide and f4, f5, probably three-quarters of a mile. >> dr. forbes expertise is storm damage estimate. hes done more than any other person on the planet. you have seen ef-5 damage before. is there any question in your mind that the winds dont meet the criteria 200 miles per hour damage? >> im absolutely convinced now and we have seen over just the next building over a huge white tank. it must weigh many tons. wev...

To 30 minutes before they strike, we dont know whether its going to strengthen into an ef-5 or be a puny ef-0 and take a few shingles off. a tornado doesnt usually touch down as an ef-5. it starts as an ef-1 or 2 and it gradually builds force. this thing was sucking in air from a 20 mile radius and had tremendous wind sheer and some of that high velocity air was able to spin down to the ground and tighten that thing up into a monster with winds probably 180 to 200 miles per hour. im struck here ...

Ef-3, 140, 160 miles per hour. i can see the wedge on the ground very distinctly from our affiliate kofr. >> if youre just tuning in, what were watching now are live pictures of a large tornado trafing at about 140 to 160 miles per hour. it has touched down south of oklahoma city 170,000 people are inside the area for warning of this tornado, for the tornado warning area. anyone who is watching this who is in the oklahoma city area, especially south oklahoma, get away from windows, put on helmet...