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Is standing with with more. derek. >> george, central u.s. taking center stage. large hail, damaging winds and long tracks, very dangerous and lethal tornadoes. more on that. take a look at footage comes out of oklahoma sometime yesterday. we had impressive thunderstorms flare up. this is called a shelf cloud. it's seen along the leading edge of an approaching line of thunderstorms. basically, we have a downdraft from the heavy rainfall underneath the thunderstorms. and the air that's pushed out in all directions along the surface of the earth eventually meets up with warmer air allowing it to...

Oklahoma city. andrew lots to talk about. >> may living up to expectations of wild weather. the shelf cloud. never seen anything like that. >> that's what we get this time of year. >> yeah, absolutely. derek, thank you. >> derek van dam joining us there. across the wild weather. what was a trip of goodwill has become tragic. after a helicopter went down in pakistan. and plus the u.s. military increases the threat level for some bases. what promded that move in just a moment. what prompted that move in just a moment.

A severe weather system continues to unfold in part of the u.s. in the state of missouri, a storm, severe storm dropped tennis ball-sized hail in farmington, even break something car windows. and there was a report of a tornado not far away in goddard, kansas. >> our meteorologist, derek van dam, is here to talk more about the severe weather threat across the united states. >> reporter: the wicked weather that battered parts of the plains states wednesday is starting to move eastward. places like detroit, chicago, cincinnati, all the way to little rock have the possibility to see that rough we...

Almost looks like a parallel tornado up in the sky. there are two types, one called a shelf cloud like a thunderstorm and this is called the roll cloud. kind of just rolls right across the sky. >> is it moving? like if you go through that, is it -- >> it is spinning. leading edge of cold air just kind of starts to spin a couple hundred feet off the ground. just amazing. almost looks freaky, like the military is working on something. as far as the forecast, it's very cold out there. actually very cold all the way down to the deep south. atlanta at 31. pretty widespread. but today is going to be...

We're told the truck driver was killed in that crash. want to show you something crazy, may look like an alien invasion but it's a cloud formation. forgive me for dipping into indra's territory. this is a shelf cloud spotted off the coast of belgian. this tape has gone viral. the clouds typically form on the end of thunderstorms. indra tells us these are uncommon in coastal areas because of the cool waters but they are common in tornado alley in the midwest but that one in belgian and i'm sure lots of people snapping picks. very intense. you feel like ooh! >> it's beautiful as long as you're...