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Thunderstorms with the flash floods and winds and possibly hail. still a major threat. let's go to cnn severe weather center and meteorologist, karen mcguiness. what is the threat now. i know the wind was the threat and we talked about the rain. who is under the gun and what is the worst we are seeing? >> it's a multilayered event, as you well know. we saw the tornados and the freak lightning and hail. now we are looking at the flooding. but the severe weather threat as far as the potential for tornado activity is not over. however, it's greatly diminished from what we saw yesterday. we knew w...

Of times we see the video, we see a defined funnel. good bet with the amount of rainfall we saw, very difficult to see any of the tornados that perhaps people may have been very close to. and just have the stats here on how many tornados we see across the country from 1981 until 2010. 80 in march. look what happens in april. you know may being the heaviest of tornado activity across the u.s. in june, certainly, one of the highest, as well. 243. we've been talking about a tornado drought. go back to early in march. the yellow numbers indicate the confirmed or reported tornadoes in march. 18, th...

And they're really more dangerous, it's been proven, than the tornado activity. >> the state trooper i talked to earlier, betsy randolph, said it was like nothing she had ever encountered or experienced before. is that your view? >> not in el reno. we had some damage here. we had some minor damage. we are the very first line, it started with us. of course, of all the things going on the last week in moore and shawnee and all the other communities, everybody is on high alert. the thing we're fortunate about here in oklahoma is our meteorologists. it doesn't matter what station they're with, the...

Where so many people are. a lot of times, the operation will rip off farmers fields and areas like this in the plains but these appear to have taken aim at very heavily populated area. >> nbc news jay gray. please stay safe, i don't need to tell you this, but keep your own shelter responsibilities in mind too. but stay in touch with you us as can you. i want it go with dylan dreyer. there is further tornado activity in st. loupies wlap do we have? >> yes. we have been knowing for a while now there was a marge area of the midwest under the gun with the storms but we do have a tornado warning in...

Here in the northeast, temperatures are soaring well into the 90s. but it is the midwest and plains states that once again are facing down an afternoon of possible tornado activity. so let's get right to our expert meteorologist dylan dreyer who joins us again. dylan? >> well, martin, we are going to see the threat of your strong storms in the plains states, but a little later than when they occurred yesterday. it looks like the timeframe would be late this afternoon into this evening central time. for right now, though, we are keeping an eye on the potential of very strong storms. in yellow f...