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What do you know about these in. >> they were big. they may have been to a mile wide at a time and they're still up and down in the sky, out of the sky tonight. this is just the beginning. we think of fever weather season as spring. that's when the warm air pushes away the cold air. there are the storms, sioux city, iowa, just to the north of sloan, iowa. if you see a hook or a c almost, we call that a hook echo. that's where the tornado is. one right there. that just went north of sloan. one there that went near jefferson and sioux city, iowa and more toward southwest that will develop tonigh...

Weighted down with heavy rainfall. they can cause jams. we'll come back to this video in a moment. as you know all know, watching chad meyers or other meteorologists here at cnn, this is our radar image. even on local levels you heard of the hook echo. this is el reno here. this is to the south. they don't really want to get positioned in this area where they'll have heavy rain. then you get into the hail core. they don't want that. we've seen too many windshields shattered. many times the radar will show us debris. it's cuddle a debris ball. they want to stay down here in the clear, staying t...

I can watch the rotation coming in here. we're in a very safe place. we're at least eight miles away from this from my wife and family. we're in no danger whatsoever. but there is the tornado coming down. there is a funnel on the ground. i can see it now. it's going right to left on your screen. flashing lights on. this has been the first touchdown we've seen all day here in the central part of oklahoma. it will continue, i believe, to get bigger as it moves into the western oklahoma city suburbs, jake. >> and, chad, we saw -- we saw on the left side of the screen there it looked like a funnel...

We're in the hook echo part of this storm which means that the big hail is to our north. the rotation around the backside is coming into it. and now that is -- that is what i consider to be a large wedge tornado on the ground, multiple tornadoes. it almost looks like there is more than one tornado on the ground. it will combine to be one large tornado and probably now you know moving on up the ef scale. ef-1 and 2. the more we see these come together, there is going to be one large wedge. and that wedge means that even if the ground wasn't there, this tornado could go farther down. we can see ...

Head. you don't want to be putting bowling balls above you as the home possibly starts to get compromised by the tornado. we do know that right now the sirens are going off, there's a large hook echo, which means it looks just like the storm that moved through moore. i do not believe we have a big tornado on the ground yet. i'm watching some of the pictures streaming from our affiliates, and so far all i'm seeing is rain. the storms will be visible for awhile. there's a lot of humidity in the air. we will see the tornados on the ground. later today, later tonight, the tornados will be wrapped ...