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dozens of people were hurt. hundreds of homes were damaged, and destroyed. a live report in a hard-hit town in oklahoma is just ahead. but here is how one survivor in iowa described the storm. >> you know, it was no straight wind, it was a regular twister. the wind was just blasting out. the bathroom, like they always say, and while we got here, the roof went here. the good lord was with us. he sure was. it's about more than you can bear. >> we're glad larry hill is okay. the u.s. coast guard searching for four people missing from a yacht that ran aground during a race in san francis...

It seems like this is getting worse. am i right to think that or from a meteorological point of view is this kind of what happens every few years? >> reporter: well, we always expect this clash of air masses in spring and as the warm air wants to overtaken the cold air of winter. but this has been highly unusual. earlier in the broadcast we were talking about the number of ef-4s. since we've been keeping records since 1800s of storms and weather in this country, the number or the percentage of ef-4 tornadoes is about 1% of all tornadoes and now here just within about two weeks of each other, w...

>> reporter: well, we always expect this clash of air masses in spring and as the warm air wants to overtaken the cold air of winter. but this has been highly unusual. earlier in the broadcast we were talking about the number of ef-4s. since we've been keeping records since 1800s of storms and weather in this country, the number or the percentage of ef-4 tornadoes is about 1% of all tornadoes and now here just within about two weeks of each other, we have ef-4s and ef-5s that are miles wide and long track tornadoes that stay on the ground for long periods of time. this is highly unusual and mu...

From that damaged area. period. that's all i have to say on that one. that's all i got. right now a couple storms coming into kansas city from the west. 40, 60 miles per hour. also into parts of west virginia, kentucky, tennessee. the big story, though, will be parts of oklahoma and texas. look at this map. i will show you the severe threat. it is big. it is important. and these tornadoes will be huge today. kansas city, all the way back down west of oklahoma city, down to dallas, texas, little rock and that's our joplin, missouri right there, right in the middle of this. they will fire abou...

Full alert especially tomorrow evening as the storms come out of central oklahoma and central kansas and move toward southwest missouri later early evening and late afternoon and be on guard because tomorrow will be long track tornadoes and maybe significant tornadoes as well. >> jeff, what we're hearing is that this is already statistically the 11th worst tornado season that america has seen in recorded history. obviously it's not over yet and it could rise up that ladder quite sharply and quite quickly. in all your time, how bad would you say what you've been seeing is by comparison to other...