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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...

Ef-4 and ef-5s. 95% are ef-1s that do a little damage. this is what we call a wedge tornado or a stove pipe. it's kind of hard to tell exactly, but this was an ef-4 or ef-5. it's just a massive tornado that was on the ground reportedly for four hours over 250 miles. we don't know if it was continuously on the ground, maybe it lifted occasionally and dropped back down. we won't know that later today or maybe even tomorrow, but when the lightning illuminates it, it's as scary as it gets. we know that this one, you can see there it just kind of looks like a wedge coming out of the lowering of the...

Compared to others that you have chased, mike? i mean, how do you compare them? >> the devastation here has been way, way greater than other storms that i have chased. i mean, putting it into -- just this tops all those storms. >> it would, huh? you know, we're hearing the wind, mike. it seems like it's pretty strong there. of course, nothing compared to potentially 200-mile-an-hour winds if indeed this clocks in as an ef-5, which you've said is possible. hasn't been confirmed yet. but when you were at that candle factory where the roof collapsed this morning, and you were there during the sea...

Hunkered down anyway and it's an exponential level of alarm that if you hadn't gotten to shelter you should have been because you had minutes or seconds left. >> you talk with this thing going on for 200 miles, is that common? do you see a lot of that in your career? >> no. this will -- only 1% of tornadoes are, like, ef-4 or ef-5. typically they're only on the ground for a little bit and this is what we call a long track tornado and it was at night. this could go down as one of the longest, strongest tornadoes we've ever recorded. ali, this is the middle of december and two weeks from christm...