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I can't believe how fast they come in and dissipate and come back into a cone form. >> it's so humid and hot and muggy out here. this was the satellite perspective as of 5:00 p.m. what we had just a few thousand feet above the surface, what's called a cap or atmospheric inversion. where a layer of warm, dry air is literally inhibiting the thunderstorms from pushing through and keeping them at bay. by 5:00, eventually 6:00 and 7:00, thunderstorms strengthen and akin to take a pot of boiling water and you start boiling it. you've got the lid on top of it and the lid starts shaking aly bit and mo...

Our drive in. we do see, though, that there is very little light out here. for our crew and a couple other crews out here, news crews out here, there is no light out here, alison. it's completely pitch dark and pitch black. as we mentioned all morning it's going to be a testament to how strong the tornado was that came through here when first light comes up, and until then this is what we have to go off here, this debris next to the technical center and what we have seen coming in, the overturned semi and debris along the road, but so far we have not seen the catastrophic damage like the ef-5 ...

We saw temperatures triple digits, and you get the ideal ingredients for the storms to start to build. that's why they were so intense and powerful. they will send out national weather service people and survey the damage and assess just how intense these tornadoses were. the ef-5 that was in moore, oklahoma, i think we might see a little less than that only because we did not see the population density that we saw in moore, so as soon as we get that information we will pass it along to you. >> okay. thank you. the national weather service says that five tornados of the 23 in total, five of ...

Of. >> you know, when you go through what they went through 11 days ago, and getting the ef-1 in your neighborhood, and the rarity of that storm, only .03 turn out to be an ef-5 in scale. that puts you on edge. up to 6 to 8 inches of faithful, and people trying to pick up their lives. 13,000 lightning strikes, another several inches of rainfall. we have talked about so much rainfall in oklahoma city, it has rained 11 of the last 15 days in oklahoma city. we were in a tornado drought just about a month or so ago. we were talking about the lack of tornados in the region. in march, only 18 tornad...

Think everyone became panicked and just wanted to get the heck out of there. >> we appreciate you, dave. thank you so much for talking with us. we're glad you're all right, and we certainly hope this is over for now for the folks there near oklahoma city. other than the rain. >> other than the rain. it's worth remembering that the tornado that struck moore was may 20th, and an ef-5. the sense of fannic is heightened. they just wanted to get out of the way. >> absolutely. we also know there were tournaments going on, a softball tournament we mentioned. they had to take cover. it's a friday even...