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>> i actually talked to him the night before the tornado and his little brother called me and said that he was trying to get home in it and that severe hail had hit his car and nobody had heard from him and that was roughly about right ten minutes after the tornado went through joplin. and i actually live in tulsa, and i was in my car on the way to joplin as soon as i got that from my youngest son. >> well, i hear that he was in the car with somebody else who has survive. is there any ...

>> shepard: jeff, describe what you are seeing. what kind of vehicle are you in? what are you seeing around you? >>ening at this time i-35 in moore on highway 37. the main east-west road on the southwest side of moore. to give you better south of the 40 interchange and 4 miles north of the city of norman, at this time no tornadoes near that location right now. this particular tornado has weakened and has became rain wrapped as we say. weakened at this time, but like i said the tornado has weaken...

Now. not as defined as they were before. tracking that circulation right into moore. >> i think that may have roped out a little bit. it looked like a very strong tornado. and the circulation has weakened and roped out a little bit. that is just southeast side of norman thats tracking northeast. and we still have a little bit of circulation from moore back down towards new castle it looks like they are sort of getting elongated and kind of shearing out a little bit but there has been a lot of da...

West of norman. large wall cloud. new tornadoes coming up on the south side and probably going to norman now. from the viewpoint i have here off the bridge in norman, just in the moore area, looking back southeast, back about southwest as you can see another large wall cloud coming and there is also a tornado developing very near and just south of the city of norman as well in radar. i can see it but this one in moore has weakened. continues we have multiple tornadoes in and the southwest suburb...

Populated area and we are getting reports of thunderstorms, firing up along the boundary, the area of low pressure is located across the northern plains, and right now we do have 7 tornadoes watches in effect, from -- stretching from wisconsin down into texas, and, a very broad area we are watching for, casualties that are favorable for the thunderstorms, to develop. and, produce some tornado touchdowns and there are three severe thunderstorm watches, one in wisconsin and one further south, acro...

Storms. weve been showing you video and pictures. i found another image. sometimes the video is overwhelming. this was video posted on the st. louis national weather service website. this was a house hit outside st. louis. if you look closely, there are policemen going through the house, looking for anyone injured. look at this, no roof on the house. theres a policeman walking up the stairs, going to the top. that was an incredible picture. and this is the only image i know of the storm as it ap...

You have got that warm air mass thats coming from the gulf of mexico and, again, meeting with that cold, dry air coming from canada. you get that rotation and then as the storm intensifies, then you get the wall cloud reaching the surface and thats where you get the tornado. as that funnel cloud reaches the ground, we begin to see the downdraft, which brings those gusting damaging winds and then the updraft which helps to fuel the storm as well and also creates large hail. so its a pretty involv...

That will have to be replaced before they can repair power. down at the edge of the street, theres a blue tarp on the top of one of the roofs there. some of the branches, the bigger branchs that came off of that hit that roof and did cause a little damage there. theyll have to get that replaced. that is the kind of damage in tuscaloosa county. as we talked to the sheriff a few minutes ago, we were fortunate. we did not fare all that bad. there was no loss of life here unlike whats happened in th...

Actually touched down just west of rochester. you see it there. a wall cloud, well defined, a funnel cloud, rather, touching the ground. once it makes contact, boom, classifies as a tornado. that was the case in hayfield, minnesota. what a sight to see. never get tired of looking at that stuff, the wonders of naturer. the wonders of nature this morning, heavy rainfall to this area and oil up on the beaches to clean up back on thursday and friday of this week. it also disrupted the issues trying ...

Enter the territories right around edmond, oklahoma. also the villages, oklahoma. theyre sitting right along the interstate here. this is interstate 40. this cell as i mentioned moving towards the southeast. they are under a tornado warning. but in this large shaded area, this yellow shaded area, thats where the severe thunderstorm watch is in effect until 10:00 p.m. tonight. so the atmosphere is very conducive for thunderstorms, and were also looking at these super cells that develop that have ...