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Right now. the storm itself is probably about five miles to our west, five to ten, and the wall cloud in the last probably five to ten minutes have really lowered. were kind of in and out getting a good visual of it here as we make our way through the city of chickasha, but the storm itself is healthy, especially on radar, looks like its not going anywhere any time soon. its not tornado warned at the moment, i guess its low-level rotation, still isnt very strong. but as it continues eastward, it...

Seems that now days, with all the information that is available and the ability to communicate and technology, we can help prepare people even though we hasnt quite increased our lead times to what we would like, the information is there. >> shepard: conner mcrory, well stay with you and as the situation changes well get back to you.ç i want to get to rick in our meteorology center. >> that piece on the left you can see some rotation that its looking a little more significant with that right t...

Warning, and you -- the warnings help people, and in oklahoma city, theyre so good at this kind of thing. >> their certainly very good at covering it and predicting it. they have terrific equipment there and would -- yay say, you here on 134th and tenth street, its going to hit you in two and a half minutes. they were get that kind of pinpoint warning. >> the radar isç getting good. a lot of the weather tools are getting better andx our mapping technology is getting better. watching that pictu...

Hit by multiple tornados that leveled so many homes in those communities. and here we are. i dont want to say again, because no one has seen the tornados so far, but i know a lot of people in moore, specifically, are worried and are hunkering down. we have a number of people were talking to. first of all, chad myers, our meteorologist, is in oklahoma watching these storms. samantha mohr is in the severe weather center watching the radar for us and looking at the bigger picture and were looking a...

The guys in oklahoma city know where to get. they get southeast of the stormç and have an unobstructed view of the wall cloud dropping off. the rain associate width a toward -- sorted with a temperature is on the northern and western side of it, and the hail is in those areaes. i should have that unon instructed view of the tornado from this -- unobstructed view of the tornado. >> shepard: everything in the clouds looks like an animal of thing but that is just angle? >> the whole piece of the d...

Room and basement of the home, and hunker down until the storms and tornadoes pass. >> im grateful to you. i know youre going to stay with us for the hour. thank you so much. lets go to chris mcbee whos a storm chaser actually on the ground in oklahoma. chris, were looking at aerial shots. these pictures are pretty ominous. what can you see? >> well, we had a very low-hanging wall cloud near chikashay, oklahoma. were reapproaching as it reaches blanchard, oklahoma. this could be a threat for the...

Havent heard reports of damage but if anything was in the path of this tornado, it was likely not a good situation. its one of the strongest tornadoes ive seen, probably a half mile, mile wide, and it became quickly wrapped in rain and right now, were just stuck in the mud again, just like we were yesterday in northern kansas. so tornado season is definitely in full effect. tomorrow looks like a substantial outbreak from texas, oklahoma, kansas, even further north. >> reed, just tell me again ex...

>> get away from windows. get out of your car. >> it was like something out of a horror movie. i was hoping no one else was headed this way. >> norman, oklahoma is home to university of oklahoma and the sooners football team, but its also home to extraordinarily unpredictable and violent weather. >> that storm once it started really spinning west of norman ramped up pretty quickly, and boom, in a matter of a couple minutes it started spinning much, much faster. >> thats trouble with a capital "t...

Then as soon as it comes up to like may, i remember mike said, hey, its crossing may at 149th, or 134th. and anyway, the screen just got completely white. it looked like the wall cloud was just going completely to the ground. that was all the debris that was obscuring the structure of the tornado. it was rotating in it. its coming through moore, its barreling down. i live just on the east side of i-35, an eighth of a mile. my neighbors to the -- the neighborhood south of me, their houses are gon...

Useful research. >> simon, youve done this for a long time, for a decade now. what have you learned in your experience doing this? >> ive learned quite a bit. with every situation, its different. with this situation, it was completely different. one thing we learned on this situation, the wall cloud associated with this tornado was mostly on the north and northeastern side of the tornado and had some striking differences to some other wall clouds that weve seen. this wall cloud was hugging the g...