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Almost a square box hanging down. it's round, but you get it from afar, it just looks like a part that lowers to the ground. somewhere out of that is where the tornado would form. right now, the weather service still does not have a tornado warning on that chickasha storm. 10,000, 15,000 feet high, but because no one lives up there, they are not warning people because of that. they do not believe the tornado is touching or reaching for the ground just yet. that's what's called the low-level circulation. when that low-level circulation tightens up or becomes a spin, that's when the warning will...

Arkansas here. so this is the broad area with these watches now extending, as well, up to wisconsin. it is a huge area for -- which will affect millions of people. let's go ahead here, go in closer and take a look at some of these warnings that chad was talking about, as well. of course, this is the radar out of oklahoma city. and you can see we do have this cell that shows an incredible amount of rotation moving towards guthrie, to the northeast at around 25 miles per hour. so you do need to take cover in this area, as chad was talking about, get those helmets out and shoes on the kids. also,...

Of its path. >> the way the inclusion is getting bigger, it's right here. >> then own monday may 20th, they plan their next moves. >> we look at the weather models, predicting where the strongest ones aloft are going to be service barriers that will initiate storms. >> we actually started out going south of the norman and moore area. we're looking at the radar and it had what we like to say just the look of a strong thunderstorm and that's when we made the decision to go north on i-35. >> in you're anywhere from north of newcastle right into moore, this your storm. >> just before 3:00 p.m. cen...

It again. there's the spin, there's the hook echo. i said, did i just see this? did this just happen in six minutes? because this wasn't here. >> you could feel it all coming. you're knowing as a storm chaser that it's going strong, in fact it's going to intensify. there you see it. now it's on the ground. >> moments later. >> look at it, on the ground. >> a tornado was born. >> we are in moore and we have a tornado to our west. >> i widened up to a skin in tornado and then as it moved into the moore area it widen. >> not ten minutes ago this was not in contact with the ground. it's a fast dev...

The first warning came out at about 2:40 p.m. the first touchdown, we watched it on tv, about 2:53 to 2:55 p.m. so a few minutes' notice for newcastle and it continued to drive itself right into moore. there is the hook echo. we talk about the hook. this is the rotation. this is the semicircle, the hook right there that is the most dangerous part of the storm, and the tornado would be right there, right at that point, right on that -- right there. even something called today a debris ball. we use this term that's new because we have new doppler technology. the doppler can actually pick up the ...