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>> 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 i...

>> 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 wal...

>> 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 meteo...

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 y...

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 whether that funnel cloud is on the ground or not is a tornado. the problem is, when you see debris on the ground, you know you have a tornado. the debris cloud is the last place you want to be. within that, you have trees, homes, cars, sometimes you've got humans. eventually, it is centrifuged out. in some of the common torn...