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Dont have it confirmed but enough rotation to give you this warning. oklahoma city right here, a watch box in effect meaning anything you could see today could get a atornado on the ground and rotate. farther to the north, springfield, missouri, we even have storms firing into parts of michigan at this hour. heres a look at the storm itself, the tornado warning, theres new castle, the spin, the hook echo as we call it. its there moving across i-44. turner and up toward moore. we dont have confir...

The flashes in the distance are power lines and some of the local meteorologists talking about what they say is a debris ball, which is what they look for or radar, which would indicate the tornado is taking up whatever is in its path. and of course well keep the live pictures coming into us from moore, oklahoma, but i just want to tell you the threat is not over. not only are we talking about oklahoma but were talking about texas, parts of missouri and there are the tornado warned storms. so th...

Seeing a tornadoes across the region and i think it is being confirmed there is a tornado there. as we go back over to our graphic and talk about the two that we have, heres manford, again, this tornado here as we track this for you and tell you, it looks like this is going to be in place to about 6:50. and we show you some of the communities that are in the path of this storm. you can kind of see the signatures. theyre looking pretty food goo the radar. very classic hook echo. as we time this f...

You get enough sheer in the atmosphere. we do have a radar picture showing you the storm that is now moving toward arlington. there is a tornado warning in effect for arlington. we think that storm could be coming into arlington at about 1:40. right about now. the storm should be getting very close to arlington. and there is definitely what we call a hook echo on the radar picture here. we are seeing evidence of rotation as we look inside that storm. so heads up in arlington. now, looking at the...

Warning for this area. there is harrisburg. this supercell that they just issued a tornado on very good radar returns here. its looking really healthy. you can start to seat formation of a hook echo. they put a tornado warning on that cell, and look at this cell on robb. it looks like a shale core in the white here. really inference precipitation. its one of the best super cells i have seen on radar so far. portions of illinois, indiana, we need people to be taking shelter in that region immedia...

condemnation from fellow republicans. rick santorum says the comments are absurd. the white house is also being drawn into the uproar. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." lets get right to the breaking news, a huge tornado outbreak stretches from alabama to indiana and beyond. millions of americans are under tornado watches. tornado warnings as well. professional storm chasers have been following these twisters all afternoon, providing dramatic images of an unfolding disa...

But in five miles it became 200 miles per hour and more. just five miles. had the storm, had this spot right here, been maybe 15 miles farther to the west and so the spotters were out on it, saying, look out, this is a huge killer tornado, get out of the way, get out of the way, get out of the way, maybe the immediacy would have been a little more. people would have been out of their cars, out of buildings. a lot of people died in cars. you saw what happened to those cars. cars were destroyed. i...

Tornado, get out of the way, get out of the way, get out of the way, maybe the immediacy would have been a little more. people would have been out of their cars, out of buildings. a lot of people died in cars. you saw what happened to those cars. cars were destroyed. it was a giant tornado. there was some times just nothing you can do about it. theres an question. thats joplin, that little word right there. this is what we call a hook echo. this is a monster cell. but it wasnt -- it wasnt a torn...

And moisture. >> the storm developed in the five miles from just west of joplin, right over here, the storm was just on the ground as an f-0, small little tornado. but in five miles it became 200 miles per hour and more. just five miles. had the storm, had this spot right here, been maybe 15 miles farther to the west and so the spotters were out on it, saying, look out, this is a huge killer tornado, get out of the way, get out of the way, get out of the way, maybe the immediacy would have been ...

that is a monster tornado. >> reporter: battle hardened storm chasers in awe of natures power. >> oh, my gosh. this is awful. dude, the trees. the trees are debarked! >> reporter: residents running for cover anywhere they could. >> in a crowded convenience store some 20 people hunkering down in a darkened commercial refrigerator. >> can we go in the cooler? [ screaming ] >> go! >> oh, dear heaven. >> god! >> reporter: at the same time a security camera in a nearby frozen yogurt shop ca...