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About, two teams of scientists with doppler on the back of pickup trucks spinning around found wind speeds of almost 300 miles per hour. now, those woininds never hit anything. so we don't have house that's are missing because there's so much empty space here. but what we know, anderson, think about this. think about about a two-mile-wide carousel with horses going around and around. going around at 185 miles per hour. and then take those horses and spin them at 110 miles per hour. that's what this storm was doing. had multiple vortices, or multiple horses going around a two-mile, 2 1/2-mile c...

From a leveled elementary school. raising questions about why more storm shelters weren't available. >> there should be a place that if this ever happened again turg schoo school kids can get to a safe place. >> an ef-5 touched down in el reno, oklahoma, less than 30 miles from moore. when the unthinkable happened in moore it was a mile wide. ef-4, ef-5 damage as far as you can see. the storm in el reno was 2.6 miles wide. twice as far as here. that's wider than the island of manhattan. and the widest tornado ever recorded in the u.s. the el reno storm surprised chasers by shifting directions ...

Vortices had winds of 295. remember, moore was only 210. this was stronger than moore. the good news is there wasn't a lot to hit. it hit this building right back here. this is ef3 damage, not ef5. the ef5 out in the field with nothing to hit. >> i saw one figure that said it was 2.6 miles wide at one point. in perspective, manhattan, the island of manhattan is 2.3 miles wide. what could this have done in a more populated area? >> it would have taken out -- everything would have looked just like moore except it would have been twice as wide. and even stronger damage because at 295 there was mu...

Formed way over here. moved this way. stayed there until 6:43 p.m. covered almost 16 mile. do the math there, you realize on any given area, it could have been grinding away for 2 minutes or more. as you mentioned, it was not only strong, well, well over 200 miles an hour, but quite wide. 2.6 miles across at its biggest area and ef-5. one more thing to note in all this, erin, at one point the weather officials say it went from a mile across to 2.6 miles across in less than a minute. so it was not only moving this way and grinding away, it was not only big, it was explosive in the way that it w...

What, more than two miles wide this thing was? >> reporter: yeah, we talked about this yesterday, carol and the day before, how i just have never seen a damage path like this damage path. where we had tornado damage two miles to the north and another half mile to the south of this interstate, i-40, and it was just -- i thought there is no possible way this could be an ef-3 tornado. they are going to upgrade this, and yesterday they did upgraded it to an ef-5 with wind speeds approaching 295 miles per hour. carol? >> sorry, chad. i'm just looking at that damage, it's incredible. this thing was ...