Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110524:22:46:00
Years past because we really, truly haven't had such good doppler radar. and we haven't had such big tornadoes. if a tornado is on the ground, wolf, it spins up, and it picks up things. picks up shingles and boards and everything else and parts of cars. that debris gets up into the cloud. well, the radar beam actually can see boards a lot better than it can see small rain drops. so when you see a big bright spot right there over newcastle, that's actually parts of the ground. that's trees and roots and that's singles in the air that the radar is picking up. it's called a debris ball because it...