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And then damage north of that. that was f-2 or f-3 damage without a doubt, cars upside down and the rest of the cells died out and the circulation was amazing on the radar but never got down to one tornado to make big damage. we now know that the moore toned that went across was an ef-0, about 60, 70, 80 miles per hour, so really blowing things around. you can get just as much as ef zero and behind me is today's story. the story of the day is flooding. that's a road. isn't a useable road any more. those are types under the road that you can see exposed. the dirt is gone. sinkhole. everything m...

How does that compare to the damage you saw on may 20th, 21st 22nd in moore, oklahoma? >> a good question. moore was more of an urban area, everything was closely packed together you had a bank next a movie theater next to a home, really easy to get an idea of just how bad the damage s here, we are much more drawn out. we don't have as many homes packed close together, don't have the damage. the damage still is very, very bad but it doesn't camp pair to moore vish any terms of seeing so much damage just by turning right to left. >> nbc's sarah daloff on the ground for us there in union city, o...

Oklahomans see, or anyone in this part of the country, how often do they see super cells like this? how often do they turn into tornadoes? >> we get a thousand tornadoes in the u.s. on average, some years more some years less. not all of those are super cell thunderstorms. some are made by line echo wave patterns. they're not as big a tornado, ef-0 or ef-1. this is my opinion only, just working in the business for as long as i have, that there are at least 60 days a year out of 365 that would have type of super cell thunderstorm with either a tornado or a hail core producing damage in america....

Ef-0 and ef-1. there can be point that is are ef-5. people say why aren't you telling us this is an ef-5. we don't know yet. everything happened so fast. the explosive nature of the storms happens so fast, we have to survey the damage afterwards. we have a chart that tells us. we look at the damage and say that's probably 200-mile-an-hour wind that caused that damage. 200-mile-an-hour winds is when we get the ef-5 range. it's the highest. i want to show you on google, not everything was ef-5. we start with a lighter strength tornado and it builds up. toward briarwood elementary, it was ef-5. t...

In moore? >> i sure hope so. we do see the disaster hopefully teaches lessons and people take the lessons seriously. one thing we want people to learn, like with what happened in moore, we can build again. we can have better, safer, stronger homes, schools, businesses, hospitals. not necessarily against an ef-5 but certainly an ef-0, ef-1, ef-2. those kinds of damages we don't have to continue to see. >> in tom costello's piece he point had out shelters were 8 to $10,000. i saw one estimate a little lower. but nonetheless, we are looking at money that, especially a working class neighborhood l...