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Now they have shifted more to arkansas. big flash flood threat throughout the ozarks. notice little rock in the bottom middle of your screen okay for now but you will deal with some of the storms as we go through the later portions of the morning. we re hearing about really nasty flooding conditions south of st. louis especially down around paducah, kentucky hearing about one of the worst flash floods that you ve dealt with in many, many years if not decades. again, further to the south there is the paducah area to the upper left, nashville to the bottom right. you re clear for now but nashville is one of those areas that has to deal with these storms a little later this morning too. these storms aren t moving fast. flash flooding can be, kills more people in this country per year than tornadoes do. okay. you can understand people s reactions. they want to get out of there, get in their car and go but you have a cushion to that. it was a reaction to the moore, oklahoma. it s not ju ....
So if i understand it, mr. lomborg, dr. lomborg, is saying there is throwing money at the problem isn t necessarily going to solve it. is that accurate? fundamentally, yes, bill. i mean, this is really about you re right on spot. we need to make sure that people in oklahoma have storm shelters. if you want to help people like that. if you want to help people with hurricanes, you need to do something about the levees in new orleans. you know, these are very, very simple things. there are other good reasons why we need to tackle global warming. but tornadoes and storms aren t let me ask you this, then. do you believe that global warming is a real and present situation? yes. it is happening. bill, you would too. both of you agree, the planet is heating up. right? yeah, and humans are responsible. right. and to you, born, believe that as a consequence of that, there could be any effect whatsoever on the power or the volume of tornadoes, hurricanes or big storms? if you ....
Because you were saying exactly the same thing the other night. i m not sure what you mean by we can t stop tornadoes, but we could, for example, pass laws making it difficult or undesirable to build fragile houses in the path of tornadoes. i m not sure we disagree about that. so if i understand it, mr. longberger, dr. longberger, is saying there is throwing money at the problem isn t necessarily going to solve it. is that accurate? fundamentally, yes, bill. i mean, this is really about you re right on spot. we need to make sure that people in oklahoma have storm shelters. if you want to help people like that. if you want to help people with hurricanes, you need to do something about the levees in new orleans. you know, these are very, very simple things. there are other good reasons why we need to tackle global warming. but tornadoes and storms aren t let me ask you this, then. do you believe that global warming is a real and present situation? yes. it is happening. ....
The scale and winds around 200 to 210 miles per hour there. it started at 2:45 and ended at 3:35. you see the damage happened in 50 men s and more of it happened in moore 10 minutes and how long it took to move through the city limits its. 17 miles path length and most longer than most tornado paths out there and the maximum width 1.3 miles. think about that. if you re driving in a car 60 miles an hour that is over a minute you re driving in that car and take that long to go from one side of the tornado to the other when it was at its max size. as far as the path intensity went these storms aren t at the ef-5 tornado for long and area of red south of moore and the city limits there is when it was ef-4 intensity. the yellow is ef-2 so it fluctuates in intensity as it goes through and the worst of it peaked over the city itself. joe, you ve been asking the question and on the front page ....
The hour, one minute after the next, on the ground with an ef-4 power. that s about 166 to 200 miles per hour. i ve seen some homes that are completely gone. i ve seen homes where there was a slab and there should be a house on top, it s gone. that indicates even the potential of above 200 miles per hour which would bring it up into the ef-5 category. weather service not going to do that for a couple days. they have to go out and look for it. they don t want to go out and look at it while search and rescue is on the ground. that is not their priority to figure out how big it is. we know it was a huge, huge tornado. south of dallas, still have a couple storms to worry about. southwest of ardmore, i don t believe at this hour, anderson, we have anything on the ground. i don t believe there s a tornado on the ground at this hour. i couldn t say this a half hour ago. even the tornado watch for st. louis. we ll watch all these storms. if they continue to spin or put anything down close to t ....