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That is an incredible picture. and bobby, i want to begin with you, and we want to give everybody proper credit. it wasnt just you, a lot of the managers who actually went outside, saw the funnel cloud and you actually had a plan in place. tell me what happened and what did you do? >> yes, maam. i mean, we knew for about ten minutes prior that we were under a tornado watch or warning. we didnt realize it was as real as it was until my senior store manager actually spotted the funnel cloud or not...

Were on our way out to west of ft. worth in palo pinto county, where two large fires have been threatening to emergency. that has kept firefighters busy. theyve evacuated several small towns. really urging people to be careful. more than 250 homes have been lost so far this year. and really, this is going to be just another dangerous day across the state. low humidity, high winds and warm temperatures and we havent had a lot of rain throughout most of the year, so its going to be another devasta...

The weekend. the funnel cloud on the left side of your screen, there is just one of the 230 twisters reported. the death toll rising overnight to 45. half of those deaths reported in north carolina and david mattingly is live for us this morning in north carolina. david, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. 11 of those deaths happening right here in this county, north carolina. it is a very rural county, very sparsely populated. the fact that 11 people were killed here should tell you...

Vortices. ill show you that in a second. just to recap, 248 tornado reports in three days. amazing stuff. in 13 states. one of which in north carolina was an ef-3. that was the national weather service crew estimating winds of 257 kilometers per hour. thats 160 mph, a category 5 hurricane in the atlantic basin. a width, talking about a wedge, 4.8 kilometers or 3 miles wide. that sun believable. and that was a track length of 101 kilometers. lets take you to some of the pictures. this is the one ...

You have got that warm air mass thats coming from the gulf of mexico and, again, meeting with that cold, dry air coming from canada. you get that rotation and then as the storm intensifies, then you get the wall cloud reaching the surface and thats where you get the tornado. as that funnel cloud reaches the ground, we begin to see the downdraft, which brings those gusting damaging winds and then the updraft which helps to fuel the storm as well and also creates large hail. so its a pretty involv...

This automatically switched over to hail instead of tornado reports. i wanted to show you the tracks of the storm. sorry im not able to do that at this time. one showing rotation on doppler is right here into the outer banks area. this is tore deer and hyde county, a possible rotation around nags head. these folks still need to be taking cover at this time. what a weekend this has beenover a . incredible. best thing i can tell you at this hour, don is that tomorrow -- everybody can take a little...

The door and it just crossed, went behind us, and crossed i-20. like five minutes it was over. >> reporter: even blew over an 18-wheeler and ripped through local businesses and homes. >> at first we heard a lot of wind blowing, sounded like a train, a whistle and all of a sudden we seen like a black funnel cloud. >> we saw people standing outside. we didnt know why. we decided to go out there too. we saw this damage out here. >> reporter: in the atlanta area a tornado watch was in effect most of...

Right there atand it just crossed and went behind us and across i-20 and in like five minutes it was over. >> reporter: even blew over an 18-wheeler. it also ripped through local businesses and homes. >> at first we heard a lot of wind blowing and sounded like a train and a whistle and all of a sudden wed seen a black funnel cloud. >> we decided to go out there and see, too. and we saw all this damage out here. >> reporter: in the atlanta area, tornado watch in effect for most of the night. hail...

Tell their stories. transformers exploded, cars tossed, trees toppled, all made for a wild spring night in parts of the southeast. in alabama there are reports of tornadoes touching down in at least six counties. this woman in tuscaloosa ran into her hallway as the storm hit. >> we got in the hallway and i could hear this -- i dont know what kind of noise it was. its a whizzing, crackling, and it scared me. >> reporter: in birmingham, heavy winds knocked down power lines and tore off roofs. in w...

>> the funnel crowd dropped right there. we were lucky we got in the door. it crossed and went behind us and crossed i-20 in five minutes it was over. >> even blew over an 18 wheeler and ripped through local businesses and homes. >> at first we heard a lot of wind blowing and it sounded like a train. a whistle. then we seen a black funnel cloud. >> you saw people standing outside. we didnt know why. we decided to go and see and we saw all this damage out here. >> in the atlanta area a tornado wa...