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I've seen ones before like i've seen the joplin one which was kind of wrapped in rain and i've seen the battle one in 2010 in south dakota. this is up there with the real violent stuff. >> chris, how close do you let this thing get to you before you back away? >> this one got to within a half to three-quarters of a mile. at that point, i started to back away. >> do you feel something when you're there? the wind? is there rain? help us understand what that is like. >> it's kind of an indescribable feeling. your ears are popping and you feel the ground shaking like in the case yesterday. a littl...

Different tornadoes that wasn't from one single tornado like this one. and here just to show you the comparisons, you'll hear about this probably for the next week or two, the comparisons in moore, oklahoma, they were hit by two ef-4/ef-5 tornadoes. haven't gotten the official rating on the one that happened on your monday afternoon. but the green line there is the one from 1999, imagine that, an ef-5, only had ten going back the last 14 years and then below that is the one, the red line is the one that happened monday afternoon. they literally crisscrossed each other. one went through the nor...

The one that we saw today wempbt through the southern portions. so within 15 years, the north side was destroyed and now the south side was destroyed. how is this looking as far as deadliest tornadoes in our country's history? look at the date on a lot of these. it's before we had tv. mostly before we had radio, in some cases. they were talking before 1950 when they had very little warning. but in the modern era, the joplin one, two years ago, was 158 in fatalities. so here's how we are tonight.

A, quote, incredible tornado. it was the afternoon of may 3rd, 1999 when an f-5 tornado crossed into moore, oklahoma. you can see the devastation that tornado wrought when it hit 14 years ago. the mayor today was also the same mayor back then. he said today's storm followed much the same path as that huge one in 1999 and that everybody still just calls may 3rd. the 1999 may 3rd tornado was an f-5. winds at over 300 miles an hour. that may have generated the highest winds ever recorded on the face of the earth. that tornado in 1999 gnawed a path through town three quarters of a mile wide, kille...

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...