CNN Anderson Cooper 360 May 21, 2013 02:15:00
Miles per hour. they'll be out tomorrow looking at the real damage, not just aerials. >> did you say the debris around this thing was as wide as 2 1/2 miles at one point? >> that's right. when the suction picks stuff up off the ground, it throws it into the tornado itself, into the funnel, into the c condensation funnel and everything gets thrown out. if the radar sees all of that debris and thinks it's rain, thinks it's something, it's bouncing off of that debris. and that debris bounce-off field is 2 1/2 miles in diameter. you can see how much larger the debris field is when it turned into i...
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