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You're used to seeing with a lot of tornadoes. i mean, it was big and massive and the damage was unbelievable. >> and, you know, we can hear underneath the video this -- some of the reaction from i guess your team. let's listen in a little bit. i think we have some sound. >> oh, look at that sucker! >> oh, my god! >> go! go! >> woo hoo! >> we hear you or i don't know if that's you but we hear voices in the background. obviously they are happy to capture these images but is there ever a point, chris, that you worry about your own life? i mean, this was a deadly storm, ten people were killed in ...

Captured this incredible video of the worst tornado there. it was a mile and a half wide funnel that packed 160-mile-an-hour winds. i'm joined via skype by reed timer, extreme storm chaser from the discovery channel. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> tell me what you saw. >> we first intercepted the storm near the mississippi river. we knew it was large on the ground because the atmosphere was prime for strong tornadoes. the storm was moving at about 70 miles per hour. we had a position well northeast of it. initially we saw the mile and a half tornado on the horizon. in...

Never wrapped my arms around one. these guys have been waiting all year. a slow start to the 2010 severe weather season. this area is great for storm chasing for many years. one, pretty much on the western edge of tornado alley, which is very much unpopulated, wide open spaces, big sky area, flat, country roads. you can see for miles. so you can typically chase these things and get great video and hopefully, nobody gets hurt and there is not a whole lot of damage. that's what we saw yesterday yesterday. we have 32 reports of tornadoes just in this area alone, eastern colorado, western kansas a...

Rob marciano, i know beyond being our weather man extraordinaire, you have been storm chasing before. did you ever get that close? >> never gotten that close. >> oh, thank you. >> you do it enough times you will get in the face of one of these things. this is the time of year where this will be more prevalent. this spot, not exactly time time for early march. here is it on the google map. western oklahoma, and there is hammen. same sell, just seeing the same tornado touch down. unbelievable that's the case with that sort of debris flying around that nobody got hurt. and thunderstorms across th...

>> yeah. this is an absolute worth case scenario for the florida keys, this west ward shift that yesterday is just disastrous for south florida. that center will likely cross over the central part of the keys. near march than. that would put all the upper keys in the stroing rouse part of the storm. and then also key west, also a storm surge from the other side, the gulf of mexico side as well. and the wind will be 190 miles an hour, stronger than any wind speed i have ever experienced in 20 years of storm chasing. >> it is incredible. when you think about miami and all the construction cranes...