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Lane and we knew we had to take 0 cover really quickly. within about a half a mile we noticed a convenience store was there and that was the closest thing we could get into quickly. >> beverly, we know you've lived there your whole life so you've seen tornadoes. this is nothing knew from you. >> caller: no. >> we have been hearing from storm chasers what was new for them was the amount of people hitting the road usually told to hunker down, seek shelter, go downstairs into a storm basement. why this time did you decide to leave? get on the road? what about this storm was different? >> caller: ...

Wichita falls, springfield, not good news for you. that is going to be the bull's yim he eye here for potential strong weather and strong tornados as well. guys, that its the set of what we are dealing with right now as far as the rest of tonight heading into tomorrow. three days, maybe fourth one here. watch that closely of the worst kind of weather -- >> ivan, oklahoma, tornado alley its used to big, bad, deadly storms. this one steamed to be even by that standard, an enormous killer. how different was this? can you give us a sense of the scale of the storm that hit moore compared to the one...

Pine bluff to shreveport are the areas of concern. so the worst it looks like it's over wrks but still some risk. >> when we're describing this as potentially a historic storm, we're keeping in mind including back in 1999. do we yet know if it is appropriate to call this a storm of historic proportions? >> anytime you get an ef 4, ef 5, it's historic. an ef-5, it's super historic. we've only had nine or ten of them since that one in 1999 in moore. that's the crazy thing i keep thinking about. the possibility that we could have two ef-5s in moore, oklahoma of all places in 14 years. where we've...

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...