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And theres nothing more difficult of trying to predict a tornado. its like a sneeze. they are atmospheric hiccups. we can tell when conditions are right but trying to pin down when the ultimate intensity will be is still very fraught with peril. were not there yet. it turns out that a tornado isnt so much an object as it is a process. one that takes many hours to unfold. we have an animation explaining the dynamics involved. of course you need moisture from the gulf of mexico but overlaid in the...

That is bringing people in. so the numbers are getting out the best they can and the websites are getting out the best they can. if you dont have that information, ill make sure that you have it so you can post it online and post it on your show. >> well make sure udo that. well talk with the red cross and have all of that information for people watching. thank you so much, lieutenant governor, for the latest information. we appreciate it. now let me go to mike seidel. hes also in moore, oklahom...

Allows the ground to really heat up and provides the instability for many of these thunderstorms to develop. we have that wind shear in place as well. what that means is the winds will be changing direction with height. that provides that rotation for these thunderstorms to potentially produce a tornado touch down. so a tornado watch is in effect right now across the city of dallas and the rest of the region out here across parts of north central texas in effect until 7:00 p.m. central time. so ...

This is it why it is so important to take every advisory very seriously. the storm prediction center again today issued a light risk for severe storms anywhere from texas all the way up into the great lakes. a pretty widespread area is expecting severe weather. yesterday we had something called a moderate risk that was issued for moore, oklahoma, and surrounding areas in that state, that again today has been issued by the very same storm prediction center for parts of texas, arkansas, louisiana,...

Thunderstorms are. they suck up all over warm, humid air and explode upwards and eventually produce tornadoes with wind shear producing the rotation for some of the thunderstorms to produce tornadoes. we could be looking at more activity today. the storm prediction center issued a moderate risk for parts of texas, arkansas and louisiana. also extreme southeastern portions of oklahoma. this is a threat, steve, gretchen, and brian, in place yesterday across oklahoma including moore. we could have ...

Its not just seasonal or that kind of thing? is there a cycle going on now? a trend going on? how would you describe it if there is one? >> the jury, so to speak, is out a little bit in terms of the climate relationship to tornadoes. my own thinking is that as the atmosphere is slowly warming, that has allowed in the cool months warm air to get farther north. weve seen over the past decade or so a lot of tornadoes at more northern latitudes in the middle of the winter months that in the past we ...

Need clashing air masses, thats the overarching theme. cold air from the north and west, warm and moist from the gulf of mexico. but what you really need is severe instability, low-level moisture and wind shear, winds changing direction and speed as you rise up through the atmosphere, when that happens, horizontal wind shear can get caught -- where the air is going straight up at about 100 miles an hour. and that can literally stretch this spinning tube of air about a vertical axis and thats how...

Atmosphere is slo warming, that has allowed in the cool months warm air to get farther north. weve seen over the past decade or so a lot of tornadoes at more northern latitudes in the middle of the winter months that in the past we were having snowstorms. so that is my own take that we can have tornadoes in bigger parts of the country year-round. theres been some computer model research that suggests that for the core of the spring and summer that the kind of wind shear, the strong winds aloft, ...

Nothing to do with the crash in bali? >> it is just a coincidence. in bali the theyre now looking at whether a violent squall was located right off the end of the runway and that the plane might have flown into a very severe wind shear. theyre recovering the black boxes. they have got one. they will get the second today. well know pretty shortly what happened in bally. rick: the footage there unbelievable. we should mention lion air does not have what you call a good safety record. this was the ...

This, a noreaster hybrid. >>neil: do you get a sense from the people you talk to that this is something that could compromise power, wipe out power for quite a while, right? i have been hearing for weeks. >>guest: what makes the storm unique it was a tropical system that hit an upper level system and that caused the wind shear to expand so they are expanding 500 miles away from the center so that is way it is a massive storm surge and a huge wind and affecting such a large gee graphic area and t...