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mean. we can see people standing in the middle of the road just looking at what we assume were their homes. and you say there wasn't any warning. what do you mean? how quickly did this come up on them? >> well, the problem was just the storm in general. the weather service does a great job of tornado warnings but the problem was this time the storm developed very rapidly and from the -- really five minutes before it tornadoed i would not have actually believed if you told me it was going to tornado. the storm produced a wall cloud very quickly, and that wall cloud tightened up very rapidly. and then it just -- it went to the ground very, very quickly. so there wasn't -- a lot of times with a strong tornado there's a lot of leeway, a lot of time for people to prepare. but this time just because of how quick the tornado developed i'm not sure that there was a tremendous length of time for people to prepare. >> we're looking at the fire you were talking about right now in someone's home. brian, if you can hold for one second, chad myers, our, you
jacksonville area. five confirm tornadoes across the florida panhandle. a lightning strike in mississippi believed to have sparked this fire in a gas and in davenport iowa, the threat of flooding as the winter snow melts the mississippi river, reaching the highest level in four years. both storm systems on the move to the northeast. a very soggy weekend ahead. abc's senior meteorologist >> tonight, severe weather taking direct aim at the lone star state. tornado warnings near waco. >> this is a very dangerous storm. >> is coming right at us. >> meteorologist - - tracking this lowering wall cloud west of the city. in - - mississippi, flames erupting from a gas pipeline before dawn. a lightning strike is to blame. the new storms coming on the heels of a separate system that brought widespread destruction to the florida panhandle on thursday. including and ef two tornado.pa
Dodge City 2016 was an incredible day for the Netweather / WeatherHoliday storm chasers, as they witnessed an amazing seventeen tornadoes across three hours.
you step outside. those are ominous-looking clouds. there's the funnel cloud reaching down and the wall cloud, too. this storm system produced a likely prn lly tornado. the weather service will assess the damage and report back. nonetheless, very active. get to the graphics. you'll be able to see we have had 18 tornado reports confirmed across the central u.s. several occurring across indiana. we've seen reports of wind damage, a lot of the storms that are fired ed off across the cel u.s. are straightline winds. the national radar, let's zoom into the indianapolis region. you can see some of the storms that have impacted this region in the last 24 hours. there's bloomington. that's where the tornado footage
also s he told them he's available if they ever need him. >> let's get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, looks like we have wet weather heading our way. >> east coast hasn't had a lot of wet weather. storm system was in the middle of the country, oklahoma on saturday. had a couple of tornados that came down. made gorgeous pictures, but a little bit of damage was done. no injuries. you can see that was the wall cloud there which ended upturning into this tornado as it struck right around nighttime. the casino took some damage. let's get to today. we are watching the storm system. know located right over the top of st. louis. heaviest rain, chicago, nashville. kentucky. atlanta, not raining yet, it is -- it will be soon. also watching the carolinas. that's moving. we get enough heating and sunshine. it could intensify and could give us some severe weather.
the most powerful, this ef-3 twister northwest of wichita. winds gusting to 165 miles per hour. with a 27-mile path. david, behind me is that same cell we have been tracking and you can see the rotation of that wall cloud, just spectacular but very, very dangerous. it's not the only one. look at the watches that are up. for the next several hours. as you watch the storms in motion, they'll progress off towards the east and become linear. some wind damage possible and certainly some hail. through dallas tomorrow morning. then, another batch of severe weather, day two, slightly east of here tomorrow. getting windy. david. >> rob, our thanks to you. you and the team stay safe out there tonight. in the meantime, we learned today that roger ailes has died. the former fox news ceo had just recently resigned amid among mounting allegations
>> it was like something out of a horror movie. i was hoping no one else was headed this way. >> norman, oklahoma, is home to the >> norman, oklahoma is home to university of oklahoma and the beloved sooners football team, but it's also home to extraordinarily unpredictable and violent weather. >> that storm once it started really spinning west of norman ramped up pretty quickly, and boom, in a matter of a couple minutes it started spinning much, much faster. >> that's trouble with a capital "t" right there. >> monitoring the storm that day is mike morgan, chief meteorologist if station knfr in oklahoma city. >> you can really see the wall cloud starting to spin much, much faster. at that point we knew there was going to be a reasonable chance that a tornado was going to set down on the western sides of norman, third largest city in oklahoma, and go right through town. hey, mike. we've got power flashes right here. it's going to be about two miles just to the west of campus. just to the west of the norman campus.
>> it was like something out of a horror movie. i was hoping no one else was head this way. >> norman, oklahoma is home to university of oklahoma and the sooners football team, but it's also home to extraordinarily unpredictable and violent weather. >> that storm once it started really spinning west of norman ramped up pretty quickly, and boom, in a matter of a couple minutes it started spinning much, much faster. >> that's trouble with a capital "t" right there. >> monitoring the storm that day is mike morgan, chief meteorologist if station knfr in oklahoma city. >> you can really see the wall cloud starting to spin much, much faster. at that point we knew there was going to be a reasonable chance that a tornado was going to set down on the western sides of norman, third largest city in oklahoma, and go right through town. hey, mike. we've got tower flashes right here. it's going to be about two miles just to the west of campus. just to the west of the norman
>> get away from windows. get out of your car. >> it was like something out of a horror movie. i was hoping no one else was headed this way. >> norman, oklahoma is home to university of oklahoma and the sooners football team, but it's also home to extraordinarily unpredictable and violent weather. >> that storm once it started really spinning west of norman ramped up pretty quickly, and boom, in a matter of a couple minutes it started spinning much, much faster. >> that's trouble with a capital "t" right there. this is big hail here. >> monitoring the storm that day is mike morgan, chief meteorologist if station knfr in oklahoma city. >> you can really see the wall cloud starting to spin much, much faster. at that point we knew there was going to be a reasonable chance that a tornado was going to set down on the western sides of norman, third largest city in oklahoma, and go right through town. hey, mike. we've got tower flashes right here. it's going to be about two miles just to the west of campus.
moist air. so cool outflow on the backside you see the rotation going on and voila, we have a tornado. preceding a tornado there's another feature we have to talk about. it's a wall cloud. it's the base of the thunderstorm beginning to lower, tremendous violent motion sometimes these whole wall clouds are rotating. sometimes you just see the air coming up into the wall cloud. when the wall cloud produces a funnel and when the funnel is on the ground or not, when you see debris on the ground you know you have a tornado. and the debris cloud is the last place you want to be because within that you have trees, homes, cars and sometimes you have humans and that debris of course, is being rotated around the storm and eventually sentry centrifuged out. in some of the stronger tornados, we see common features around that immediate funnel. that is upward motion on the outside of that tornado followed by inward sinking motion on the inside. this is an amazing feat of