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We know these storms arent flat. theyre in the vertical, 40, 50, 60 thought feet. lets pull this thing up and look at it. when you look at this big rotating thunderstorm, as massive as it is, look the a whats going on right here. that tornado. the most violent part of that super cell is right there in that tornado. lets lift the face of this and talk about tornado genesis. a lot of the research over the past several years has gone into what actually kicks off the tornado for the super cell? well...

If if that rear flank down draft isnt super cold it can allow a tornado form especially when you have on the eastern side of that that warm moist air. you see the rotation going on and viola, weve got otherwise a tornado. preceding a tornado, theres another feature we have to talk about. you saw it on the video that we just showed. its a wall cloud. its the base of the thunderstorm beginning to lower, tremendous violent motion. sometimes they whole wall clouds are rotating. sometimes you see the...

Theres a damaging tornado on the ground right now. the significant tornado touchdown. >> then he ran for cover like everyone else. more powerful images from tupelo area coming in as well. take a look at this clip from mississippi tv station. >> this is video from tupelo right now, and maybe dave and michael can help us with this. is this a wall cloud? or would this be an actual tornado? and, again, this is from the tupelo area. were not seeing debris in this. we also had a picture from david ken...

Jerry, happy to know you are doing okay. that is one heck of a photograph you saw in the distance. how big was the storm, jerry? >> we were at my brothers house helping with home improvements and noticed the clouds. we stepped outside and watched the whole tornado form. it probably took 4-5 minutes for the tornado to form. once it did, obviously, you start panickinpanicking. >> did you stand and watch or take cover? >> stand and watch most of the time. my brother-in-law has a safe room in his sh...

The tornado form from just a small funnel cloud to then it became -- then there was swirling down below that and the funnel cloud went up and down, then it just became like a cylinder that we could see from the wall cloud down to the ground. it was just like a cylinder and then within like five seconds, it just exploded into this -- to the f-5 that it turned out to be, and there was debris clouds on both sides of the tornado. and my niece who lived in mustang, melissa jones and her sister, lexi ...

This is coming right at the ballpark again with this cell. >> talk to us about how the conditions are ripe to keep producing altogether of the super cells. >> well, we have first a lot of low level wind shear in the atmosphere and a strong system that has a lot of cold air associated with it and that is what is favoring the formation of very large heal. you come bean that with the fact we have a lot of low level rotation and a lot of the thunderstorms are exhibiting rotation. just because they s...

Bakes those floodwaters, they evaporate and the air here is more humid than it would be in a regular year. something else, the gulf of mexico is warmer than normal. you have colder than normal, warmer than normal. that makes a jet stream thats faster than normal. when you get a jet stream moving faster, you get the potential for more sheer. more difference between what the air is doing down here and what the air is doing up here. a faster jet can make and does make bigger tornadoes. i mean, how ...

That makes a jet stream thats faster than normal. when you get a jet stream moving faster, you get the potential for more sheer. more difference between what the air is doing down here and what the air is doing up here. a faster jet can make and does make bigger tornadoes i. >> i mean, how does a tornado form? >> this is cool stuff. particles on the ground, humidity on the ground starts to rise. like a hot air balloon. when the sun comes out, heats the ground, the ground warms up and the air wan...