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Now? >> well, we have been seeing a lot more activity during the last hour or so, brooke, as these thunderstorms really start to fire up here. and you can see we do have new tornado watches that are in place until 10:00 p.m. local time here across west central nebraska, down in through kansas and in towards the texas panhandle where we have some severe thunderstorms at this hour. so we do have that threat to see some of these severe thunderstorms spawn tornadoes, we have a severe thunderstorm warning here just northeast of amarillo moving to the northeast at 20 miles per hour, ping-pong ball s...

Thank you for joining us. good luck. >> you're welcome. >> thank you. god bless. >> and you. a group of scientists, students, and researchers have set up camp in tornado alley. they have a fleet of 40 vehicles ready to chase down a storm at a moment's notice all part of the newest phase of the vortex-2 project, why thunderstorms spawn tornadoes and others don't. weather channel meteorologist mike bettes is traveling with the team. mike, with a good morning. i don't know if the scientists might be tired of hearing this but you have to think of the movie "twister." i'm looking at you and think...