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A storm chaser familiar with the signs and causes of tornadoes cnns derek van dam is taking a closer look at the severity and the weather conditions that are causing these monster storms. determining the precise weather conditions that spawn monster tornadoes is a topic heavily studied by forecasters. >> now that mystery is one step closer to being solved. thanks to a first of its kind, partnership so this is a super cell that is in oklahoma in may and its just beginning to start to drop its fir...

Hurricane Lee is rewriting old rules of meteorology, leaving experts astonished at how rapidly it grew into a goliath Category 5 hurricane.

And evacuated now. >> reporter: thats the same area where a devastating mudslide five years ago killed 23. >> in less than 12 hours, weve received more than eight inches of rain with seven to eight inches still forecast to fall. >> reporter: back near santa cruz, the coastal town of capitola was devastated by the high surf, heavy rain, and power outages. john whitbys restaurant, zeldas, is heavily damaged. its been in the family since the 70s. how many people do you have working here? >> 74. >> ...

Monster storms like this. no municipality is equipped to battle storms like this by them southeasts. it requires mutual aid. governor kathy hochul knew that. governor hochul provided aid and called for aid from communities all across the state of new york. so many communities stepped up. our neighboring suburban communities, cities of rochester and syracuse, the town of am hurst, many others that im not mentioning, all realizing buffalo is the epicenter of this storm in western new york. the sto...

Moderate days in the month of november. you can see this area highlighted in red. thats the biggest threat. we could see tornados the size of ef-2 or higher. its not going to be out of the question to see ef-3 tornados with this system. you can see the area with the hashmarks. thats going to be your greatest tornado threat. this includes jackson, vicksburg, memphis, tennessee, needs to be on high alert with this. theres the snow, you can see across the plains, the upper midwest. all of this mois...

In front of them are gone, so you can directly see the path moving right straight through there. >> reporter: as the community grieves, many are asking why. >> this is the largest event ever in december in terms of severe weather and tornadoes. >> reporter: experts are working to understand what fueled these monster storms. >> this is very unusual. >> josh durkey is a meteorology professor at the university of kentucky. >> there is warm air ushering in a lot of moisture in the lower levels of th...

Severe weather tornadoes. >> experts are working to understand what fueled these monster storms. >> this is very unusual. >> josh turkey is a meteorology professor at western kentucky university. what happened here? >> there was a widespread area conducive to severe weather. there was warm air ushering in a lot of moisture in the lower levels of the atmosphere. and the wind shear set up an environment for storms to tap into that environment and thrive. >> the unusual nature of the storms have ma...

As they struggle to recover, a powerful new storm system could bring tornados to parts of iowa and minnesota tomorrow minnesota has never had a tornado confirmed in december. dasha burns reports from kentucky on the shifting tornado landscape. >> reporter: in bowling green, kentucky, no words can describe the devastation. >> you can see that these two houses are gone, and then the houses in front of them are gone. you can directly see the path moving right straight through there. >> reporter: as...

In realtime in the form of these monster storms. and we know that for each degree celsius of warming of the ocean surface, you get 7% more moisture in the air. so the potential for much greater amounts of rainfall. but you get as much as a 20% increase in wind speeds. and a 60% increase in intensity. so theres no coincidence here. the most intense and destructive hurricanes on record in the northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere and the atlantic and pacific for the globe have all happened w...