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Here in the united states as a particularly dangerous situation. >> when that warning goes out, people should take caution. >> absolutely. something they need to pay attention to. >> thank you so much. let's go now to a storm chase they are we've been keeping in touch with. dan has been following the tornado system closely and joins us from olin, iowa. thank you for taking time with us. where have you been chasing the storm and what have you seen? >> i started the day over in eastern iowa, and then slowly we worked our way over into northern illinois. along the way, there was numerous differ...

Radar and we're also getting reports of tornadoes on the ground from trained weather spotters. this is going to be a situation ongoing throughout the afternoon and the evening as darkness fall, people are not going to be able to see the rough weather coming. so make sure you know your radios are on. there is an area of severe weather, moderate risk something that they don't typically do this time of year very often. so we're going to have to watch this throughout the evening and into the overnight and flooding is going to be an issue. some of these tornadoes could be rain wrapped. so difficult...

Hours ago. we have two tornado watches. one for extreme southeastern texas. the other for west texas from lubbock to del rio. the other from corpus christi to houston. not only are we seeing strong to severe thunderstorms, which have the potential to produce tornadoes, but also the very heavy downpours and that will be the big problem because we've got such low visibility because of the rainfall, if a tornado does develop, it is going to be rain wrapped. you are not going to see it touch down. we've had some reports of some damage. could have been thunderstorm damage, but could also have been ...

Jeff petroski, what is it like where you are? >> reporter: well, wolf, we had the first tornado touch down northwest of aurora about 45 minutes ago. i tracked the circulation to the southwest side of the national airport about a mile south of the runway. it became rain-wrapped. and then we had a new tornado develop that was actually quite large. i have one south of the dia runway, that was on the ground for about two minutes. then it lifted. and then as that tornado lifted a new one came down, and i got a tornado on the ground right now. stand by. tornado is now on the ground, one mile, tornad...

Two miles max. the main tornado vortex, i don't know what kind of damage is currenti i occurring based on the doppler radar. looks like it was 100 miles an hour back to the west-southwest, we may have wind damage just south of the dia airport, and powerful winds and large hail. >> jeff, hold on for a moment. i believe chad myers, our meteorologist has a question for you. >> first, let's put it into perspective, chad is in a good spot. here is the airport, the runways, you are in the middle of it, jeff. as the storm went by you, multiple vortex tornadoes, is that what you were just seeing or on...