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We know these storms aren't flat. they're in the vertical, 40, 50, 60 thought feet. let's pull this thing up and look at it. when you look at this big rotating thunderstorm, as massive as it is, look the a what's going on right here. that tornado. the most violent part of that super cell is right there in that tornado. let's lift the face of this and talk about tornado genesis. a lot of the research over the past several years has gone into what actually kicks off the tornado for the super cell? well, there's one thing that stands out. you can sometimes see this when you're in the field. it is...

If if that rear flank down draft isn't super cold it can allow a tornado form especially when you have on the eastern side of that that warm moist air. you see the rotation going on and viola, we've got otherwise a tornado. preceding a tornado, there's another feature we have to talk about. you saw it on the video that we just showed. it's a wall cloud. it's the base of the thunderstorm beginning to lower, tremendous violent motion. sometimes they whole wall clouds are rotating. sometimes you see the air coming up into the wall cloud. but when the wall cloud starts to produce a funnel and whet...

There's a damaging tornado on the ground right now. the significant tornado touchdown. >> then he ran for cover like everyone else. more powerful images from tupelo area coming in as well. take a look at this clip from mississippi tv station. >> this is video from tupelo right now, and maybe dave and michael can help us with this. is this a wall cloud? or would this be an actual tornado? and, again, this is from the tupelo area. we're not seeing debris in this. we also had a picture from david kenny earlier today. what he said was a wall cloud in the yazoo county area. look, now we're seeing h...