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Which everything else is pointless. >> i got out here after it passed, and i just fell to my knees. that's all -- all i could do. me and my fiancee, everything we own was in the trailer. and this is all we got left. >> welcome back to "hardball." when a tornado hits, of course, you think people would run away from the danger. these guys, they run towards it. we're talking about storm chasers. they document, analyze, help forecast superstorms up close and personal. some play hosts to tornado tourists, might sound crazy, but people pay to ride along with the guys and get up close to nature at it...

About the experience and what you saw yesterday? >> we were north of the tornado, it was very large. it was a wedge-shaped tornado when we were there, and the tornado had so much debris it was hard to see the tornado, just the literal dust cloud of debris around it where the debris was no longer anything recognizable. it was just atomized debris. >> you know, simon, as i understand it, you have been chasing storms since 1999. we have been talking about 1999 specifically for moore, oklahoma, because of the devastating storm, the ef-4 that came through then. they're considering this one to be th...

When you see this? i know this is part of your business to document this because we want to learn about the storms but this is heart breaking. >> absolutely. it's gundput wrenching to see t, it gives you a sick feeling. it really is reminiscent of may 3rd, 1999. >> simon, what do you think we can learn from this storm? the work you are doing documenting this storm, what can we learn from it? >> we can learn quite a bit from this storm. there's several factors that came into play to create this event. and one would be the incredible amount, absolutely very, very incredible amount of instability...

Some of the view of the tornado, that let us know how violent it was, baa the stuff it was destroying and wrapping around the intense tornado. >> simon, how long were you guys following this storm? like, when were you able to catch it and how long were you able to track it as it made its way across? >> we began just north of the storm. several minutes before the tornado developed. and we became stuck in traffic, in central oklahoma city, and had to take several different maneuvers in oklahoma city to go through some city streets, to avoid the traffic, get around some traffic jams, and then we ...

Me and my fiancee, everything we own was in the trailer. and this is saall we got left. >> welcome back to "hardball." when a tornado hit, of course, you think people would run away from the danger. these guys run toward it. storm chasers. analyze, document and help forecast superstorms up close and personal. some play hosts to tornado tourists, might sound crazy, but people pay to ride along with the guys and get up close to nature. chris mcbee with rapid rotation storm tours. he joins us from moore, oklahoma. you might know simon brewer from the weather channel series "storm riders," he's ac...