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What, more than two miles wide this thing was? >> reporter: yeah, we talked about this yesterday, carol and the day before, how i just have never seen a damage path like this damage path. where we had tornado damage two miles to the north and another half mile to the south of this interstate, i-40, and it was just -- i thought there is no possible way this could be an ef-3 tornado. they are going to upgrade this, and yesterday they did upgraded it to an ef-5 with wind speeds approaching 295 miles per hour. carol? >> sorry, chad. i'm just looking at that damage, it's incredible. this thing was ...

Monster tornado, it just kept spinning this wall cloud and the suction vortices would come straight down to the ground. you could also see the upward motion, too, so it's not just the really violent horizontally rotating motion but also the updraft that caused some of that damage and thankfully at that time when the video was shot there was open farmland that went further east and caused damage. we saw some storm chasers and motorists that were thrown off the road. we pulled them out of their vehicles and it was just a disaster, very violent tornado and today was one of those days where you kn...

Miles south of that damage path so our thoughts and prayers definitely go out to the people out here in oklahoma city and south of oklahoma city in moore, because it is going to take years to rebuild. it looks like a war zone out there. this tornado took a hard turn and tornadoes that are this strong, you can see how volatile those vortices can be and scientifically in terms of tornadoes it's right near the ground, the suction vortices, it's a big mystery how fast the wind speeds can get in the suction vortices. some theories show on small scales the wind gusts could be 400 or 500 miles per ho...

Would have been further -- we pulled them out of their homes, and we went to the damage path of the ef 5 i live, just two, three miles south of that.

Ground below. sometimes the tornadoes made contact with the ground and lift again and might make contact again 30 seconds or two minutes down the path. we don't know if it is on the ground exactly as it is crossing over there. seeing that traffic certainly if any cars are turned over or damaged nobody is getting off of that interstate any time soon. >> shepard: sometimes these things bounce along like a pogo stick. >> exactly. exactly. that is what i was just staying. they touch and lift back up and touch again. we had a tornado a couple of days ago in the northern areas of oklahoma that was a...