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What do you know about these in. >> they were big. they may have been to a mile wide at a time and theyre still up and down in the sky, out of the sky tonight. this is just the beginning. we think of fever weather season as spring. thats when the warm air pushes away the cold air. there are the storms, sioux city, iowa, just to the north of sloan, iowa. if you see a hook or a c almost, we call that a hook echo. thats where the tornado is. one right there. that just went north of sloan. one there...

Weighted down with heavy rainfall. they can cause jams. well come back to this video in a moment. as you know all know, watching chad meyers or other meteorologists here at cnn, this is our radar image. even on local levels you heard of the hook echo. this is el reno here. this is to the south. they dont really want to get positioned in this area where theyll have heavy rain. then you get into the hail core. they dont want that. weve seen too many windshields shattered. many times the radar will...

I can watch the rotation coming in here. were in a very safe place. were at least eight miles away from this from my wife and family. were in no danger whatsoever. but there is the tornado coming down. there is a funnel on the ground. i can see it now. its going right to left on your screen. flashing lights on. this has been the first touchdown weve seen all day here in the central part of oklahoma. it will continue, i believe, to get bigger as it moves into the western oklahoma city suburbs, ja...

Were in the hook echo part of this storm which means that the big hail is to our north. the rotation around the backside is coming into it. and now that is -- that is what i consider to be a large wedge tornado on the ground, multiple tornadoes. it almost looks like there is more than one tornado on the ground. it will combine to be one large tornado and probably now you know moving on up the ef scale. ef-1 and 2. the more we see these come together, there is going to be one large wedge. and tha...

Head. you dont want to be putting bowling balls above you as the home possibly starts to get compromised by the tornado. we do know that right now the sirens are going off, theres a large hook echo, which means it looks just like the storm that moved through moore. i do not believe we have a big tornado on the ground yet. im watching some of the pictures streaming from our affiliates, and so far all im seeing is rain. the storms will be visible for awhile. theres a lot of humidity in the air. we...

Almost a square box hanging down. its round, but you get it from afar, it just looks like a part that lowers to the ground. somewhere out of that is where the tornado would form. right now, the weather service still does not have a tornado warning on that chickasha storm. 10,000, 15,000 feet high, but because no one lives up there, they are not warning people because of that. they do not believe the tornado is touching or reaching for the ground just yet. thats whats called the low-level circula...

Arkansas here. so this is the broad area with these watches now extending, as well, up to wisconsin. it is a huge area for -- which will affect millions of people. lets go ahead here, go in closer and take a look at some of these warnings that chad was talking about, as well. of course, this is the radar out of oklahoma city. and you can see we do have this cell that shows an incredible amount of rotation moving towards guthrie, to the northeast at around 25 miles per hour. so you do need to tak...

Of its path. >> the way the inclusion is getting bigger, its right here. >> then own monday may 20th, they plan their next moves. >> we look at the weather models, predicting where the strongest ones aloft are going to be service barriers that will initiate storms. >> we actually started out going south of the norman and moore area. were looking at the radar and it had what we like to say just the look of a strong thunderstorm and thats when we made the decision to go north on i-35. >> in youre ...

It again. theres the spin, theres the hook echo. i said, did i just see this? did this just happen in six minutes? because this wasnt here. >> you could feel it all coming. youre knowing as a storm chaser that its going strong, in fact its going to intensify. there you see it. now its on the ground. >> moments later. >> look at it, on the ground. >> a tornado was born. >> we are in moore and we have a tornado to our west. >> i widened up to a skin in tornado and then as it moved into the moore a...

The first warning came out at about 2:40 p.m. the first touchdown, we watched it on tv, about 2:53 to 2:55 p.m. so a few minutes notice for newcastle and it continued to drive itself right into moore. there is the hook echo. we talk about the hook. this is the rotation. this is the semicircle, the hook right there that is the most dangerous part of the storm, and the tornado would be right there, right at that point, right on that -- right there. even something called today a debris ball. we use...