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Happen in unpopulated areas and go hardly noticed. if you remember seeing the pictures from moore, oklahoma, it picked up even the grass and everything was brown becauseç e entire layer of sod had been churned up, and because the rain that comes with it, the dirt left hip becomes mud. so the tornado picks up the mud. and one thing you knew as you drove around the area, is which cars were there when it happened. even if they werent hilt by the tornado you knew if they were nearby because they h...

And now twitter and facebook and instagram to disseminate and it feels like its worse than it was in the. is thatñr deceptive? >> absolutely. theres to much information available. as soon as a tornado comes in, everyone has videos and makes it seem like -- people think tornado areç hitting more and more. theyreç not. and but were hearing about it. we starting to pay attention a little more. >> shepard: i felt like that waç a large part of the reason for the success of the warnings in moore...

But you knowi do. when they get on the move they can go for a very long way, and they can become large and menacing, and we know from the experience in moore, oklahoma, how bad this can be. you watched with us and horror last week. these are pictures a few minutes ago. these are now live pictures. this is live. and really all we can do now, jonathan hunt, is watch and,!" wait. weç were on this program, in ts time slot, last monday? the time seem. >> a week ago monday, and you just hope and pr...

There. >> shepard: thats all right. >> i talked to the storm of to the southwest of oklahoma city that is just severe. its getting very close toxd the moore area and we would hate to see something go through there probably going to get hail and strong winds. keep in mind theres still a ton of debris on the ground there, winds could cause problems. want to keep it away from getting rotation. >> shepard: how low are these clouds? >> probably at that point, 600, 700 feet. >> shepard: they look low....

Very of a thing coming down out of the cloudsío5 and then it touched down, looked veryç sma, and just kept growing and growinnd then all of a sudden youç saw the dont field. i guess we watched it for upwards of 30-40 minutes. i dont remember if seeing one live and constant like that. >> the only one that makes me think kind of a similar thing, two years ago in tuscaloosa, we had the live picture, during fox report, that you had that live picture of the tornado cutting right through town the...

Warning, and that potentially could drop a tornado right in that area. theres one cell -- i got to tell you. i want to go to the south. and this is a little bit more concerning to me for the populated area. to get -- i know you dont want toç get off that shot but show the mops as well. theres one cell just to the south of oklahoma city, southwest, a different storm, and that storm would be headed very close to the norman and moore area, that being their saying in about 30 minutes. you see wher...

>> this is what we should be seeing this time of year. what we have been getting,ç though, is these storms have been so close to oklahoma city and oklahoma city being -- having such great meteorologists in the yeah, so prepared for the storms and they have theç choppers, and were getting live shots of towards like we havent gotten in previous years years d theres so many more storm chasers on the road. were getting a lot more information. the good part is were also saving lives in the proces...

Save -- safe to say. i think its safe to say theres more sheer in place today than on the day of the moore tornado on may 20th. and so i dont want to alarm anyone. you never know, and that was destructive going over populated areas. >> shepard: kokh was reporting this storm ills headed east. right? >> yes, thats right,. >> shepard: as it gets farther east the lower level winds are stronger, which would be a better environment for tornadic5 activity. >> thats correct. >> shepard: do we have seems...

About to produce a tornado. its still getting organized. it could be a little while before or if it produces anything. >> shepard: on the right-hand side of the scream -- screen is a map, and at the center where the image stops, thats chickasaw on the bottom of the storm system and moore on top of the storm system. is that right? >> yeah. thats correct. moore is to the east of chickasaw, near the oklahoma city area, and right now a storm, as it progresses east, is head towards the metro but its ...

Telling their children and grandchildren about. >> we talk about how good the local meteorologists are bull the overriding branch of noaa that monitors severeç weather d thats located in norman, oklahoma, which is just to the south of oklahoma city and just to the south of moore. oklahoma. so you have -- the guys who are the best at determining all of this and interpretingç our weather information, satellite ;ekthose guys are right there,d that certainly helps for people kind inform the pri...