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Four surveyors on the ground, teams of two. and they did find that it was ef-5 damage as we've told you there at the briarwood elementary school. max winds of 200 to 210. the blue coloring is where it was ef-0. ef-2 in yellow. the intensity changed dramatically as the tornado was on the ground. these storms are always evolving. it was an ef-5 for a very short period of time. notice the bright red. that's when it was ef-4. almost the worst of it in the strongest this tornado was was unfortunately when it was right over the most populated areas there right around moore, oklahoma. so that's kind ...

Know, everywhere you look, you know, you could be looking at tornado damage. we're with our tornado expert the weather channel dr. greg forbes and dr. forbes, kind of the question is, how big is this tornado, how far did it go? what is your sense. >> my sense of the total destruction is it's about three blocks of this subdivision neighborhood, so it's probably about a quarter mile wide of total destruction. we were down a little bit on the south edge of the tornado. there most of the houses are still inhabitable, there's some damage, that's about a half-mile wide in addition and there's probab...

H habitable. so i'm thinking it probably edge ef-0 to soft edge ef-0, at least a mile wide and f4, f5, probably three-quarters of a mile. >> dr. forbes expertise is storm damage estimate. he's done more than any other person on the planet. you have seen ef-5 damage before. is there any question in your mind that the winds don't meet the criteria 200 miles per hour damage? >> i'm absolutely convinced now and we have seen over just the next building over a huge white tank. it must weigh many tons. we've been asking what that is. i found the answer. it was part of an oil arrangement. it flew in f...

To 30 minutes before they strike, we don't know whether it's going to strengthen into an ef-5 or be a puny ef-0 and take a few shingles off. a tornado doesn't usually touch down as an ef-5. it starts as an ef-1 or 2 and it gradually builds force. this thing was sucking in air from a 20 mile radius and had tremendous wind sheer and some of that high velocity air was able to spin down to the ground and tighten that thing up into a monster with winds probably 180 to 200 miles per hour. i'm struck here watching the coverage on msnbc. just the limits of technology. we've become a nation of sitting ...

Ef-3, 140, 160 miles per hour. i can see the wedge on the ground very distinctly from our affiliate kofr. >> if you're just tuning in, what we're watching now are live pictures of a large tornado trafing at about 140 to 160 miles per hour. it has touched down south of oklahoma city 170,000 people are inside the area for warning of this tornado, for the tornado warning area. anyone who is watching this who is in the oklahoma city area, especially south oklahoma, get away from windows, put on helmets, do not go out and try to take footage of this tornado. it is very dangerous. chad, explain, whe...