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That is crazy. >> in just a moment you will hear from a storm chaser who just made it through a twister inside a kind of custom made tornado tank. first, tom, theres quite a bit of severe weather out there today. weve heard reports of four tornadoes that touched down in kansas today. whats the latest? >> the good news is that these are in extremely rural areas but let me start with this note for you. the month of may is the most explosive month, the greatest number of tornadoes in the u.s., roug...

Explosive month, the greatest number of tornadoes in the u.s., roughly 384. halfway through the month, on the 15th of the month, we only had three but on that day, on the 15th, it was hood county, texas and the fatalities in gan burr granbury, then east of oklahoma, shawnee and we know about moore that followed. we have severe thunderstorm watches with funnel clouds that were in western kansas but its the red box, this is the tornado watch box, this is in effect until 10:00 p.m. central time, an...

>> holy [ bleep ]! >> just sucking these clouds in. >> its just getting bigger and bigger. that is crazy. >> in just a moment you will hear from a storm chaser who just made it through a twister inside a kind of custom made tornado tank. first, tom, theres quite a bit of severe weather out there today. weve heard reports of four tornadoes that touched down in kansas today. whats the latest? >> the good news is that these are in extremely rural areas but let me start with this note for you. the m...

Theres the other one. >> this storm has also caught the attention of other storm chaser. >> theyre going the same place we are. >> who, like jimmy and scott make money selling images of violent storms. scott and jimmy continue on. driving directly into the storm looking for forming funnel clouds. they encounter heavy rains. >> theres hail, a little hail. >> some of the hail stones can go right through your windshield and break all of the windows out in your car. thats what scarce me the most. >>...

Really a slow moving storm and the tornado was slow moving itself. so we had plenty of time to get out of its path, although it was, had some very wobbly motion to it so we made sure we kept our distance and had time to move if we needed to. >> looked like one of the funnel clouds was particularly big and particularly loud. i want to take a look at this one section of this video. >> wow. thats a long rope. goes way back. connects way up. they are saying in the storm way up here. there it goes in...

We have not got any word of damage or injuries or deaths. we do know that what had been a number of tornado watches turned into warnings, when funnel clouds were sight it. casey is in me middle of this. >> i can tell you its a frightening situation unfolding here in oklahoma. were watching serious seasoned newscasters on television in the oklahoma city area reporting and giving us information on this massive funnel cloud that has just been sort of hugging the ground now for quite some time, near...

This point thats being reported. let me kind of set the scene back here behind you. you can see that there is a trailer home just back there that is still standing. all of the siding and everything ripped right off of it. but what youre seeing littered on the ground here is whats left of a second mobile home that was just right next door. but it was about 30 feet back. in fact, this same area went through a tornado in 2010 and the homeowners back there, who are now pilfering through what is left...

It is so pow -- powerful and so strong. casey is talking about the tornado that has the same force and impact of a category 5 hurricane. cool air from the left, warm air to from the right and power that turns its way through here. luckily in oklahoma they knew the storm was coming, and some alerts were sent out to look for something like this, when you see the video, some of these funnel clouds, martha, theyre huge. theyre on the horizon, theyre big and theyre powerful. and they are moving throu...

Here before it starts storming again. the forecasts indicate that the storms that come in this afternoon or this evening could be strong or stronger than those in this area last night in a cone of intensity thats the worst between dallas and that it extends all of the way up into minnesota. as you indicated we have more than three dozen people injured, two deaths in oklahoma and 300 homes sustaining some type of damage. people will tell you that the early warnings worked. the local station, the ...

Much more on the severe weather were watching. incredible live images of the ominous activity taking place right now in edmond, oklahoma. take a look at these images right here just in the last 30 minutes or so weve seen a number of funnel clouds forming. we heard from some of the reporters theyd even touched ground in edmond, oklahoma then making its way toward i-35 in the arcadia area, then threatening luther as well. it is too early to tell what kind of damage has been done here but we know f...