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So i was expecting this going in to patricia, but this was definitely the most severe storm that i've flown to date, as far as turbulence. >> and you were flying, i know, low, in order to get your instruments, in order to get all the data. what could you see when you looked at the surface of the ocean. >> normally when you break out in the eye, you would have what we call a stadium effect. so you'd see the whole eye wall from inside the eye, which is a really good picture, and you can look straight up, sometimes, see clear skies, but we didn't have any of that. we could just see lightning flas...

Civilization. so as soon as i heard a stream i thought just try to find water, i followed the tiny stream i was kind of walking in it and just following it. and it just grew into a river and i followed it. >> unbelievable story of how she walked away from that crash. tornadoes tore through the midwestern late thursday evening. our derek van dam is on top of it. >> yeah that is right, these tornadoes ripping from iowa to illinois. these strong super cells moving in an easterly direction. this monmouth area here, this is where a multi-formed vortex tornado formed. you can see the tornado in th...

Anything it's cloudy. it's dark so there aren't visual references for that. you're over the ocean. so there aren't lights. can you trust what you're seeing and feeling as a pilot? >> well, yes. that's a very good question actually. you do actually look out of the windows of the aircraft. unless you're embedded in cloud, you should be able to see the thunderstorms from a distance because of the lightning flashes. and then you back this up with what you can see on your radar. you also listen to aircraft that are ahead of you on the same airway because they're ahead, getting closer to the weather...

This is being looking to the northwest at about 72nd and center. i guess it's right about there. this is the old bluecross-blue shield building. you need to take cover just as though this were a tornado heading to your city. it's that big of a deal. i know it's a severe thunderstorm warning but this is the most big severe thunderstorm i have seen, the biggest severe storm i have seen moving into a city in a very long time, wolf. >> so how potentially dangerous is this, especially for the folks on the highway there in their cars? because it's getting darker, darker and more ominous. what is tha...

I did see two circulations still on the doppler radar here in the area i'm located as well back to the west back over near norman. i have got a couple over the norman area as well. inbound outbound circulation on the west side of norman right now tracking southeastward and also a tornado developing on i-40. i do have a tornado developing based on doppler radar, a tornado just going to be west of shawnee and west of mccloud and i'm going to is stop the car and get out and look. >> jeff, i want to tell you the picture that we are showing up on the screen right now is from kwtv just outside of ok...