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The weather channel's jim cantore has an explanation live you've never seen. >> let's talk about the anatomy of a tornado. it starts with a super cell a rotating thunderstorm. but on these tornados there is one thing that clearly stands out, especially when we look at radar. it's called the hook echo. and what hook echo is a little appendage of the southern flank of a storm. we know these storms aren't flat. they're in the vertical 40 50 60 thought feet. let's pull this thing up and look at it. when you look at this big rotating thunderstorm as massive atmass massive as it is, look the a what'...

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Meaning business so now is the best time to get to the lower part of your home and farther south, another tornado warning, and you can pick out the hook echo in line, and you can see the inflow of the storms right there on the radar and pretty impressive storm signature, and you can see elmore and tipton and about 1,000 people in line for this one, and it is going to progress farther to the east. it has produced two tornadoes, and we know that this is going to be adding two more and broaden ing broadening the horizon here, we are watching for over two million people with this region and so it ...

You get the updrafts and you get the hail to fall out of it. we have a few storms still right now, right there along the same path. we actually have our ingrid peterson right there. we'll get to her as soon as we can, trying to get a hookup on the radio there is a hook echo right through here. that's the tornado she is on right now. let me show you this in three dimensions, because i think this is so cool there is a lot of hail up here in the parts of the storm. here is the hook right here. looking at the southwest where it is rotating, here is all the hail and all the rain. it stretches now f...

But again all this heavy rain, and like some situations where you have a well-defined hook echo, you can see it here, but also a lot of rain in there. this tornado is obscured by this particular storm. let's look at that debris ball on the radar picture. once again, right in there, that's that very he reflectivity that is -- oh, my gosh, look at that. wow, let's go back -- >> just another report of a large wedge-shaped tornado in tupelo. >> this is just awful to see this, dave. once again we talked about the tornado being just north and east of 45, so he is 4578 -- put a white line on here. th...