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Or prevent some people from going out there? >> well, chasing either for recreational purposes or scientific like mine is very difficult, almost impossible in an urban area, because basically, everything breaks down. people are trying to evacuate, police are closing off the roads, trying to keep people from getting in, and it becomes quite chaotic. >> is there anything new to this season's outbreak that you haven't seen before? because there was a tornado drought up until a couple weeks ago, now we've seen a large number of tornadoes. >> the number of tornadoes is still well below average. thi...

Or prevent some people from going out there? >> well, chasing either for recreational purposes or scientific like mine is very difficult, almost impossible in an urban area, because basically, everything breaks down. people are trying to evacuate, police are closing off the roads, trying to keep people from getting in, and it becomes quite chaotic. >> is there anything new to this season's outbreak that you haven't seen before? because there was a tornado drought up until a couple weeks ago, now we've seen a large number of tornadoes. >> the number of tornadoes is still well below average. thi...

Of. >> you know, when you go through what they went through 11 days ago, and getting the ef-1 in your neighborhood, and the rarity of that storm, only .03 turn out to be an ef-5 in scale. that puts you on edge. up to 6 to 8 inches of faithful, and people trying to pick up their lives. 13,000 lightning strikes, another several inches of rainfall. we have talked about so much rainfall in oklahoma city, it has rained 11 of the last 15 days in oklahoma city. we were in a tornado drought just about a month or so ago. we were talking about the lack of tornados in the region. in march, only 18 tornad...

Was a tornado drought until a week or two ago. how much longer does this season go on for? >> well, potentially, it could go on well into summer. and a lot of times, we have a fall tornado season, if you will, as well. so we're just really getting cranked up here. the reason bhie we did have such a drout is because it was a cool spring. it took a while for us to really heat up. >> i know we were saying why haven't we had more tornadoes this year. it doesn't necessarily forecast that we're going to have a lean season just because we start out slowly. we have proven with the explosive tornado ou...

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...