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Basic necessities wherever they can find them. first, another question remains just how powerful was this storm? for that let's bring in meteorologist chad myers at the cnn severe weather center. chad, was this strongest storm ever recorded? >> we may never know. we may never know because there wasn't a wind anemometer that could withstand the wind. there's nothing that would stand up to 195 miles per hour. how we will look to see whether this was possibly bigger than camille or some of the other big storms on record was that we'll see how far things were thrown. that's exactly how forecasters...

Tornado on the ground near perkins? >> yes. these are different cells associated with a dry line and the storms fired up on the dry line earlier and became individual storms with an individual updraft which sustains these. we are on the -- one of the further south ones. there are actually more storms back to the southwest which could also produce tornadoes later on as well. >> spencer, how often is there a super cell like this or different storms, different cells like these in oklahoma without a tornado that causes damage appearing in your experience? >> usually they don't cause any damage but...

What i'm seeing right now. >> spencer joins us now on the phone, a storm chaser. spencer, where are you and what are you seeing? >> i am about three miles south of cole, oklahoma which is southeast of blanchard. we have a rapidly rotating wall cloud that developed in the last ten minutes and it looks like it could drop a tornado at any time. >> where are you in relation to -- we know that -- we heard from one of our local affiliates that there looked to be a tornado on the ground east of perkins which is about an hour northeast of oklahoma city. where are you in relation to that and to oklahom...

Affiliates say there looked to be a tornado on the ground east of perkins, which is about an hour northeast of oklahoma city. what can you tell us about that and what can you tell us about the tornado warnings in the area? >> we did have some reports of some funnel clouds associated with the perkins storm, jake, and that system continues to move off to the east here. you can see also it has some signs of rotation on this cell i believe we can put the information up on that. there is a warning on that cell as it moves to the east. tornado warning in effect until 4:00 local time. that includes t...

Care of. a large abundance of love and care coming out of the community. >> how soon, when did you seek shelter to -- from this storm? was it a few minutes? when did you go to your shelter? >> we didn't get into a shelter yet. we're watching it in the house on tv. it is not far from our back door. when the sirens go off is when we'll decide to get in it. >> tammy glasgow, thank you so much and for your heroism last week. we'll check in with you later. >> o.j. >> cnn meteorologist chad myers is driving around the area. chad, we heard from a local media, one of our affiliates there, there looks ...