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warnings that could persist right through the weekend, severe storm, even tornado type the possibilities. rick reichmuth following all of that. are rick, what are we looking at? rick: rolling fork is really the first town to get hit by this. they dont have any cell service. a lot of the cell towers have been taken offline, so its the hard to get any communication in and out, were having a hard time getting reporters to be able to talk to us about exactly what theyre seeing. this is a l...

massive tornado formed near rolling fork, mississippi. it flattened much of that town as you can see as well as others as it roared eastward across the state into alabama. mallory white for mississippi emergency management standing by live for us as is adam klotz live in the fox weather center but first, lets check in with charles watson live in emory mississippi near the alabama border. i know you been talking with residents today, what have they told you about how much of a heads up ...

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So, yes, there was a warning out there but, i dont believe it was the warning that people really thought that they needed to hear. and this is the key. if you hear that word warning, or if your phone goes off, you cannot treat it like a small issue, a small tornado. because you dont know if its going to be your neighborhood or not. now, the entire town of perryton did not get hit, but the center part of town, the tornado went right smack through the center part of town. north, southside a little...

Stan. tell the us what you saw. >> it was extremely scary. i was trying to come down on the storm from the north. rain was so heavy i literally couldnt see, so i had to pull off the chase. i could not see the tornado, but i came in right after it passed through the area. there were just very few first responderses there at the time, and the scene was horrific. just the number of injuries -- neil: what did you see right after -- im sorry, stan. after it hit, what did you see then? >> i did the no...

Injured than were injured in the tornado itself. 65 miles long, about a half a mile wide. thats almost 30 square miles worth of damage. and this thing very could easily be 150 miles per hour storm. 156 makes it a category five hurricane equivalent in the eye wall. thats how strong we are talking about, something hit down across the gulf coast earlier this year. i want to show you the purple sdwarz squares. this is yesterday. tornadoes on the ground. here comes the one very close there near colum...

Year that either hop from one community to the next. and one house is demolished. the one next door is untouched. then weve seen damage like the one we saw in moore where communities are gone. how would you compare this tornado to those? how widespread is the damage? >> well, im not actually sure how widespread the damage is. but the tornado itself, how long a track it was, it went -- tons of miles. and there are many tornadoes that are pretty long track and theyre very strong. theyre definitely...

And that caught a lot of people off guard who were around tracking the tornado. >> you know, i want to ask one more question. we have heard a lot about these rain-wrapped tornadoes. since last week when we were talking about all of this, is that unusual in the oklahoma area? >> caller: umm... its not really unusual or usual. it happens with certain kinds of storms. that causes the rain-wrapped tornadoes. >> it seems like they have all been rain-wrapped tornados that we have been reporting on? >>...

Were watching this afternoon, there was so much rain wrapped around it, you couldnt see the tornado itself, but it was at least a half mile wide as we looked at it hours ago. in this tornado, i learned something new today. it had several vortexes involved. can you explain, is that rare? >> you need a very strong storm to produce a multi vortex system. basically what that is, you see the videos, you see the live shots of tornadoes that come down from the cloud, the funnel clouds reach the ground,...

Trying to bump debris all over the place. you want to be southeast of a tornado when it actually comes in. so you can see it coming. were really, really getting hits by winds right now, jake. were not even close to the tornado and the winds are -- that was at least a 70 mile per hour gust trying to get into the tornado itself, trying to reinvigorate the storm. >> chad, can you see if there is still a funnel on the ground? we cant tell from what were seeing. >> you know, where i am, im in a new d...