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Tornadoes, the kind we had in alabama. the national weather service crews have been out there, from the pictures, i wouldnt be surprised if this going to be on the ef-4, ef-5 scale. when you have 75% of the town completely eblit rated here. those are the kinds of wings were talking about. well pay attention to what the survey crew says. there are the explosion of thunderstorms that we had through the day on sunday. weather front continues to move east. the weather front diminishing significantly...

Past hour or so did something we call wreck the atmosphere. it used up the energy, used up the moisture, used up the heat, and so that may be good news for the rest of the day, because there will be more tornadoes today across parts of arkansas, maybe kansas, and even sneaking into parts of missouri. but when it is cold, when its rained, when its not 80 degrees with a relative humidity of 75%, the chance of a tornado actually comes down. it is the heat of the day, its that humidity. heres joplin...

Imagine sitting there 16 hours waiting to be rescued. hailing, pouring winds, sitting there on top of you. now youre freezing cold on top of all that. the severe alert moved out. a strong alert. now just a light rain. unfortunately, back behind it not much bet perp looks like the storms back building. looks like it will stay stormy in the joplin area for a while. one more large area of hail in the last half hour. happened yesterday. this is as impressive as it gets. the radar from the joplin are...

L lin. just wiped a clean swathe wherever it traveled and that went right through the heart of joplin, missouri. i heard about it last night around 6:40 in the evening local time. it went through about 5:30, they had about 20 minutes warning and this was the radar. you can see the magenta, thats the hook echo, the twisting of the storm p about and whe the storm. the white is the debris ball. the storm was so powerful, it took the roof, trees, threw it up in the air. there are reports of stuff fa...

meteorologist jacqui jeras. we have been monitoring these feeds. you have been monitoring scanner traffic. were told a number of injuries, possibility casualties. people are looking for people. whats going on? >> so much devastation. its hard to get a handle on how widespread this is. of course, communication is extremely limited. theyre asking people to stay out of the city because emergency crews are trying to set up triages to help the people who have been injured. and also, you kno...

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Outbreak will be in the top five in terms of numbers of tornadoes. hopefully it it wont reach that benchmark for fatalities, but that number is over 200 now and it does continue to grow. heres what i want to show you radar. if youre at home watching radar, you can look for some of these signatures as well. this is what we call a hook echo. you can see this little bend right in here on a radar signature on a supercell thunderstorm. that hook tells me theres potentially rotation within this thunde...

Thats all by itself. a super cell when you see it on radar -- youll know it because it will have a hook echo on the bottom of it for at least some of its life -- this is what a super cell looks like. this is not the one from last night but this is an image. right there is the hook. thats the hook echo itself. a little low pressure center thats developing here and eventually that low pressure center turns into a tornado. youll have hail north of it, and debris getting blown out. thats where torna...

Washington d.c. just northwest of there right now but not heading into d.c. this is washington county, frederick county and maryland. also jefferson and burkely counties and west virginia. there you can see the purple box here. you see a nice little hook echo or indentation. this is a doppler radar-indicated tornado. but you need to take this seriously and seek shelter. there is a severe thunderstorm watch. sometimes even though its a thunderstorm watch and not a tornado watch, sometimes tornado...