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that is a monster tornado. >> reporter: battle hardened storm chasers in awe of nature's power. >> oh, my gosh. this is awful. dude, the trees. the trees are debarked! >> reporter: residents running for cover anywhere they could. >> in a crowded convenience store some 20 people hunkering down in a darkened commercial refrigerator. >> can we go in the cooler? [ screaming ] >> go! >> oh, dear heaven. >> god! >> reporter: at the same time a security camera in a nearby frozen yogurt shop catches the chaos. workers moving customers to the back and then everything goes flying. the massive ...

>> reporter: battle hardened storm chasers in awe of nature's power. >> oh, my gosh. this is awful. dude, the trees. the trees are debarked! >> reporter: residents running for cover anywhere they could. >> in a crowded convenience store some 20 people hunkering down in a darkened commercial refrigerator. >> can we go in the cooler? [ screaming ] >> go! >> oh, dear heaven. >> god! >> reporter: at the same time a security camera in a nearby frozen yogurt shop catches the chaos. workers moving customers to the back and then everything goes flying. the massive tornado mowing down everyth...

>> as we have seen throughout this hour the signature of this storm has been its size and its power. we have been asking the question of how it developed. we're going to pose that to meteorologist chad myers. how did it happen so strong? people knew it was coming. they did what they were supposed to do and yet they really could not get out of the way. >> well, a couple things happened. the storm developed rapidly. even though the warning was out, with 24 minutes worth of notice the storm developed five miles from just west of joplin, just over here. the storm was on the ground as an f-0, small...

Not get out of the way. >> well, a couple things happened. the storm developed rapidly. even though the warning was out, with 24 minutes worth of notice the storm developed five miles from just west of joplin, just over here. the storm was on the ground as an f-0, small little tornado, but in five miles it became 200 miles per hour and more. just five miles. had this storm, had this spot right here been maybe 15 miles farther to the west so the spotters were out on it saying look out, this is a huge killer tornado, get out of of the way, get out of the way, maybe the immediacy would have been ...

>> as we have seen throughout this hour the signature of this storm has been its size and its power. we have been asking the question of how it developed. we're going to pose that to meteorologist chad myers. how did it happen so strong? people knew it was coming. they did what they were supposed to do and yet they really could not get out of the way. >> well, a couple things happened. the storm developed rapidly. even though the warning was out, with 24 minutes worth of notice the storm developed five miles from just west of joplin, just over here. the storm was on the ground as an f-0, small...