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Lives were saved by brandon and national weather offices into this storm on the ground for like 200, 250 miles. tornado warned for 6 1/2 hours and seeing the damage that came in now and we are starting to get the storm surveys. the quad state one, the long one, haven't got that 0 foirm one and could be an ef-5. the last one we had was moore, oklahoma. back to 2013 since we had an ef-5. but most of those that occur ds are not in december. most are typically in the springtime. death toll is approaching the 40s and will go down as one of the deadliest tornadoes in

Country you had to go back to 2013. it's been a long time since we had one that strong. it's possible this one could get there, but most likely an ef-4. and the last time, by the way, we had an ef-5 tornado it happened in december, but all the way back in 1950. you have to go back to illinois in sunfield, illinois, in december. so, it has happened in december that we had an outbreak like this, but it's been over 60 years since we've seen anything like this. the ingredients for the big set up. it was, obviously, 70s. 80s right before the outbreak happened and a record high in memphis of 80 degr...

During the joplin, missouri tornado. that classified as an ef-5. this is similar but on a larger scale because of the amount of loss of life and on top of that, not just this town hit. many towns across this region in kentucky, southern illinois, arkansas and tennessee. simply tragic on all levels, sandra. all you have to do is take a look here. it may be sunny and pretty out as far as the weather. it is nothing like that here on the ground. once that sun goes down, it guess very, very cold. in the early morning, it's difficult to do anything out here because of how chilly it is. the frost com...

Now, it's up to other weather service offices to say exactly how long it was. the record is 219 miles. so this is already 124 and is going to go up higher. this easily may be the longest tornado in our country's history we've observed and yes, in december. i'll get more to that in a second. we don't know the intensity. it's rare to get ef-4 and ef-5. it's at least an ef-3 in mayfield. a couple more, the one that hit the amazon facility in illinois. on the scales, it goes up to five. that's the highest. we haven't had a five in almost eight and a half years. we have had significant ef-5's befor...

Kentucky's had at least 64 deaths. this one already is the third deadliest tornado in kentucky's history. look at all the other months, may and march dates are on that list. we don't yet know how strong the one tornado was that went through mayfield. they've out doing the damage surveys. you can imagine they have to go along the entire 200 mile path and try to see what the peak was because that's what they'll rate it. the one that hit the amazon facility was rated at ef-3, 165 miles per hour winds. that's severe damage on our scale, almost into the extreme damage category. when you see the pic...