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Program, as well as individual assistance. people who have lost their homes. the extra counties that we have asked for on public assistance include boyle, breckenridge, bullet, casey, christian, edmondson, grayson, green, harden, hart, hickman, livingston, logan, lyon, merion, monroe, ohio, shelby, spencer and todd as the same counties weve asked for the individual assistance as well. that is how widespread the damage from this event is when what i think will be an f-4 or f-5 tornado touches dow...

Now, its up to other weather service offices to say exactly how long it was. the record is 219 miles. so this is already 124 and is going to go up higher. this easily may be the longest tornado in our countrys history weve observed and yes, in december. ill get more to that in a second. we dont know the intensity. its rare to get ef-4 and ef-5. its at least an ef-3 in mayfield. a couple more, the one that hit the amazon facility in illinois. on the scales, it goes up to five. thats the highest. ...

Contrast of temperatures, 80 in memphis, 30 in minneapolis, thats where you see this very volatile weather pattern. lets show you a rewind of the radar last night. in all my years doing this, ive never seen a tornado outbreak quite as destructive as this. we saw about 150 tornado warnings right across this area. you can see the map painted in red, and those are all the tornado reports. 38 tornado reports. one tornado in particular could have been on the ground, possibly, were going to get an ass...

Disasters. the national weather service will go out and individually investigate each tornado that touched down to determine how strong it actually was. some of the preliminary reports showing winds in excess of 250 kilometers per hour. that makes it what is called an ef-3 tornado. that is an enhanced fujita scale. that is a scale that we use to show the destruction of the wind associated with tornados. but believe me, it actually goes higher than ef-3. you can see ef-4 to ef-5, which obviously ...

Confirmed at a higher level, maybe an ef-4, ef-5. going into edwardsville and defiance in illinois, we also have ef-3 damage possible here as well. when i say more than ef-3, were talking ef-4, ef-5, which is devastating to incredible damage and winds in excess of 200 miles possibly. 200 miles per hour. >> wow. yeah, that is very powerful. tyler malden, thank you so much. after the break, we will get an update from kentucky emergency manager michaels doss with the latest on the recovery effort...

Devastating torpedos that struck the central u.s. officials fear more than 80 people have been killed. the national weather service now confirms that four, four powerful ef 3 tornadoes hit in mizis marx illinois and kentucky. cnn meteorologist tom seder is here with more. tom, this was quite extraordinary, and i know were still every day, every moment learning more about this track and how many tornadoes? >> in fact, fredericka, just moments ago we now have word that there are five ef-3 confirma...

Town. that was at 9:27. that was three minutes before the tornado actually moved through. there was that notice but i cant imagine that fear that was invoked in people and what they felt, you know, was going to happen in the next three to five minutes. so as we went through, we had many, many warnings. we actually just had our tornado watch drop. that was a half hour ago. our last recent warning just dropped about 15 minutes ago. so we are in the clear in terms of that. so when this all wraps up...

Echo. that area right where mayfield is that kind of juts out, you can see the darker reds to the north of it. thats usually what we call like the hail shaft. in this case that was probably some debris being picked up by the radar also. that little hook right near mayfield, thats right where the tornado was located. its well defined signature that tells us on radar that theres a tornado so the tornado emergency was issued well in time. the problem that you have with these ef-4, ef-5 tornados is ...

So, as we go throughout the next couple days, yasmin, were going to watch how long it tracked, did it stay on the ground that long, is it an ef-4, ef-5. survey teams are going to look through everything and thats where were really going to be able to determine all the information. >> hey, i dont know if you can answer this, michelle. im sure you can, actually. but what was the kind of atmosphere to create a perfect storm like this? such devastation that we have really never seen. >> yeah. so, fr...

We havent had confirmed tornadoes or reported tornadoes since about 1:00 a.m. in the morning. most of the damage that you are seeing was done by one long track tornado. you will hear a lot of reports today. this was on the ground for over 200 miles. the thunderstorm that produced the tornado was showing the potential for producing a tornado for roughly four hours. i know about 250 miles through four states. that is almost unheard of. we dont know exactly if the tornado was on the ground, lifted ...