Super Cell Tornadoes News Today

Should have been 56. it was 80 in memphis on a december day. the jet stream also in the way pushing storms at a rapid rate. we had a level four out of five risk for severe weather. thats just one short of the highest risk there was. so we started out about 6:00. we have some storms on the radar. we start to get more and more of these tornado warnings in different areas. heres st. louis. in mayfield. many tornadoes were on the ground at the same time. and this is where the rub is. we had such lar...

Joplin is way up there. but there will be many tornadoes on the ground. have that noaa radio on today. >> as you pointed out to our viewers, this year tornadoes seem to be so much more powerful than over recent years. >> yes. many times we get storms that line up and they are called squall line storms. they are all in a line and they all fight for the energy. they all fight for the moisture. the storms today are not in the line. there is one there and theres one there and another here and anothe...

relations. are the tensions of recent days any worse? any better? im wolf blitzer and youre in "the situation room." first, breaking news this hour. a large tornado has been spotted on the ground in oklahoma and storm-ravaged missouri is being hit by severe weather and possible in the coming hours, searchers in joplin have been taking advantage of the break in the bad weather for a few hours now. 17 people have been pulled alive from the rubble as of last night. but the death toll is f...

Just north of jackson, mississippi. but now we also have damage to the south of melvin, alabama. so every time you see a pink box on our map that means a storm is rotating. doesnt mean that somethings on the ground yet because the weather service tries to give you some lead time. they try to predict that a tornados going to come down in the next 10 or 15 minutes to give you time to get the kids and dogs and get below ground. we know that storm with the pink box near melvin, alabama that storm di...