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Devastating torpedos that struck the central u.s. officials fear more than 80 people have been killed. the national weather service now confirms that four, four powerful ef 3 tornadoes hit in mizis marx illinois and kentucky. cnn meteorologist tom seder is here with more. tom, this was quite extraordinary, and i know we're still every day, every moment learning more about this track and how many tornadoes? >> in fact, fredericka, just moments ago we now have word that there are five ef-3 confirmations. >> wow. >> doesn't mean they stay an ef-3. the survey takes weeks to get to the actual repor...

Town. that was at 9:27. that was three minutes before the tornado actually moved through. there was that notice but i can't imagine that fear that was invoked in people and what they felt, you know, was going to happen in the next three to five minutes. so as we went through, we had many, many warnings. we actually just had our tornado watch drop. that was a half hour ago. our last recent warning just dropped about 15 minutes ago. so we are in the clear in terms of that. so when this all wraps up and we see that survey damage, aex, i think we're going to see an ef-4 or ef-5. it's hard to specu...

Echo. that area right where mayfield is that kind of juts out, you can see the darker reds to the north of it. that's usually what we call like the hail shaft. in this case that was probably some debris being picked up by the radar also. that little hook right near mayfield, that's right where the tornado was located. it's well defined signature that tells us on radar that there's a tornado so the tornado emergency was issued well in time. the problem that you have with these ef-4, ef-5 tornados is that sometimes even if that candle factory did have a shelter room and all the workers, they kne...

So, as we go throughout the next couple days, yasmin, we're going to watch how long it tracked, did it stay on the ground that long, is it an ef-4, ef-5. survey teams are going to look through everything and that's where we're really going to be able to determine all the information. >> hey, i don't know if you can answer this, michelle. i'm sure you can, actually. but what was the kind of atmosphere to create a perfect storm like this? such devastation that we have really never seen. >> yeah. so, from a meteorology standpoint this is how i would describe it. it was devastating, it was histori...

We haven't had confirmed tornadoes or reported tornadoes since about 1:00 a.m. in the morning. most of the damage that you are seeing was done by one long track tornado. you will hear a lot of reports today. this was on the ground for over 200 miles. the thunderstorm that produced the tornado was showing the potential for producing a tornado for roughly four hours. i know about 250 miles through four states. that is almost unheard of. we don't know exactly if the tornado was on the ground, lifted and came back down and on the ground again. we will find that out with the official surveys. regar...