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Injured than were injured in the tornado itself. 65 miles long, about a half a mile wide. that's almost 30 square miles worth of damage. and this thing very could easily be 150 miles per hour storm. 156 makes it a category five hurricane equivalent in the eye wall. that's how strong we are talking about, something hit down across the gulf coast earlier this year. i want to show you the purple sdwarz squares. this is yesterday. tornadoes on the ground. here comes the one very close there near columbus, georgia. there were more than ten tornado warnings at the same time for storms all rotating b...

Year that either hop from one community to the next. and one house is demolished. the one next door is untouched. then we've seen damage like the one we saw in moore where communities are gone. how would you compare this tornado to those? how widespread is the damage? >> well, i'm not actually sure how widespread the damage is. but the tornado itself, how long a track it was, it went -- tons of miles. and there are many tornadoes that are pretty long track and they're very strong. they're definitely front end tornadoes. so if these tornadoes were to go through heavy populated area they would c...

And that caught a lot of people off guard who were around tracking the tornado. >> you know, i want to ask one more question. we have heard a lot about these rain-wrapped tornadoes. since last week when we were talking about all of this, is that unusual in the oklahoma area? >> caller: umm... it's not really unusual or usual. it happens with certain kinds of storms. that causes the rain-wrapped tornadoes. >> it seems like they have all been rain-wrapped tornados that we have been reporting on? >> caller: a lot of them have been. especially since the past week. basically, a lot of them have eit...

Were watching this afternoon, there was so much rain wrapped around it, you couldn't see the tornado itself, but it was at least a half mile wide as we looked at it hours ago. in this tornado, i learned something new today. it had several vortexes involved. can you explain, is that rare? >> you need a very strong storm to produce a multi vortex system. basically what that is, you see the videos, you see the live shots of tornadoes that come down from the cloud, the funnel clouds reach the ground, and you have the typical tornado, then it goes back up. but the situation we saw today was this ma...

Trying to bump debris all over the place. you want to be southeast of a tornado when it actually comes in. so you can see it coming. we're really, really getting hits by winds right now, jake. we're not even close to the tornado and the winds are -- that was at least a 70 mile per hour gust trying to get into the tornado itself, trying to reinvigorate the storm. >> chad, can you see if there is still a funnel on the ground? we can't tell from what we're seeing. >> you know, where i am, i'm in a new developing area. there is not a tornado on the ground that i can see. i see a dust devil on the ...