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This is a tornado event also. there was a tornado that touched down in south jersey and some high winds that could end up being called numerous tornados. so you have tornados in the south, you have record epic flash flooding in the north, there really century superlatives tor what happened here, the history made in new jersey. here is the governor. >> an extraordinary, sadly tragic historic 24 hours in new jersey. there is no other way to put it. needless to say, look, on either side of us right now and the impact of this, these tornados that touched down in this county, this is going to take ...

The following is text directly from the NWS Damage Survey for the January 25th Tornado Event: Central Alabama was involved within a warm sector area during the night of January 25th, 2021, featuring dew points in the low to mid-60s and surface-based instability reaching as high as 1,200 J/kg. Strong wind shear was in place which, combined with instability, favored a risk for severe storms. Upper-level troughing was displaced well toward the northwest, which helped to limit the number of severe storms, with just one or two occurring in Central Alabama through the event. The storm that produced...

Hour, we have this phrase here, sort of a -- it's called hunker down. you hunker down. that's what we're doing here in houston, and we are just waiting to see, you know, what harvey is going to bring us. >> as we get daylight in the next hour or so here, craig, are there plans to redistribute resources potentially coming from houston or even farther east down to the areas that are affected farther to the west? >> i do know, you know, a lot of the first responders here, they will go where they are needed. as it is right now, you're in houston. there is not a special need for anything like that....

A springtime-type tornado event. and when those storms started blowing up and we knew they were going to be long track with parameters in place and when we got a visual on it, it was a major multivortex tornado. when they move at 50 and 60 miles per hour they can track across a lot of real estate in a hurry. >> absolutely. how fast are you going to try to stay in front of it or behind it? >> we were prepared for that. we tried to set up to the east of the tornado. the tornado passed just to the north and west of us. but you definitely have to keep up some speed to stay with those storms. we go...

Javaheri, joins us to talk about this. dan confirmed something mike, another storm chaser said to me last hour. the trees didn't bend at all. they just simply were snapped in half. this tornado was extremely powerful. >> the intensity is remarkable for this time of year. we've not seen a storm this strong this late in the season for a long time. just to hear the trek of the storm, at least 25 miles on the ground, potentially 100 miles if it was the same tornado. that's one in a 10,000 tornado event. 10 years to get a strong potentially this strong that it doesn't happen typically in december...