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Ef-4 and ef-5s. 95% are ef-1s that do a little damage. this is what we call a wedge tornado or a stove pipe. its kind of hard to tell exactly, but this was an ef-4 or ef-5. its just a massive tornado that was on the ground reportedly for four hours over 250 miles. we dont know if it was continuously on the ground, maybe it lifted occasionally and dropped back down. we wont know that later today or maybe even tomorrow, but when the lightning illuminates it, its as scary as it gets. we know that t...

Hunkered down anyway and its an exponential level of alarm that if you hadnt gotten to shelter you should have been because you had minutes or seconds left. >> you talk with this thing going on for 200 miles, is that common? do you see a lot of that in your career? >> no. this will -- only 1% of tornadoes are, like, ef-4 or ef-5. typically theyre only on the ground for a little bit and this is what we call a long track tornado and it was at night. this could go down as one of the longest, strong...

Meteorologist bill karins who is covering this. bill, what do you know? >> well, were starting obviously at daybreak. carrie is in kentucky and were getting pictures in and letting the viewers know the way it works. the storm chases are out there and there are drones and pictures on social media that we have to get permission and we pay for them and then well show you the pictures. ive seen pictures and it looks like a bomb went off and it looks like an ef-4 went through downtown and we showed y...

Speculation, i think its going to be an ef-4, could be 5, but really high end of the scale, so that doesnt typically happen anyway. so you have that time of month. you have the time of year. and you have the time of day. and then you also had the location. so, it was so far north. we werent talking texas or florida outbreak. it was as far north as the ohio valley and were usually talking about snow at that point, yasmin. >> michelle grossman, thank you. were going to be checking with you through...

Ground. foundation of the house. thats it. if a roof and structure remaining, it is lower than an ef-5. you see the damage that was done to the factory, that looks to be at least an ef-3 or ef-4. the picture of the courthouse in front of mayfield, the top of the building was ripped off. the building itself is standing. it looks like a brick building. the trees on the sides were stripped down to the bark in some cases and not a lot left. lets show you what happened. the first tornado warnings iss...

Green. it takes a long time. they have to go and look at so many places. especially in something thats 200 miles long. this is going to take a long time to figure out how big this storm really is and it doesnt matter. the number doesnt matter. people are asking all the time, what is it? it doesnt matter. so many lives were devastated. thats what we need to concentrate on. not ef-4, ef-5, what the winds were. weve seen the damage, the devastation and the lives lost. >> the devastation is what mat...

These images, still extraordinary. give me an idea how youre assessing things? i mean, he you are a storm chaser, have seen devastation in the past of tornado, but this is just so different. >> yeah. it doesnt -- its a scene i havent seen in at least a decade. and in alabama, killed 27 two years ago, comes close. high-end ef-4. another one in mississippi. easter weekend. came close, but not quite to this one. those were both high in force. i feel very comfortable at least a high-end ef-4 and pro...

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The tornado was a mile wide at one point with estimated peak winds of 170 mph, and it stayed on the ground for nearly 32 miles.