it now stands at 19. as for that tornado itself, it now has the terrible distinction of being the widest on record and one of the most powerful as well. chad myers is in el reno now, joins us. the tornado was upgraded today from an ef-3 to an ef-5. that really caught me by surprise. does that mean in terms of power? i mean, why was it upgraded? >> reporter: because doppler on wheels, scientists, storm chasers that we talk so much about, two teams of scientists with doppler on the back of pickup trucks spinning around found wind speeds of almost 300 miles per hour. now, those winds never hit anything. so we don't have houses that are missing because there's so much empty space here. but what we know, anderson, think about this. think about about a two-mile-wide carousel with horses going around and around. going around at 185 miles per hour. and then take those horses and spin them at 110 miles per hour. that's what this storm was doing. it had multiple vortices, or