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Sight, was a wall cloud, the leading edge of this storm front that's across the mississippi river, headed east through the city of memphis. this spectacular wall cloud appeared to have some rotation in it. at least that we were able to see from here open the ground. no defined funnel that was formed with this. anthere was some rain and some very vivid lightning coming out of it. from our vantage point no tornado. there is a tornado warning here in the memphis area for this county. we've been listening to sirens going off for about the last half hour. but we saw the dramatic cloud coming throug...

tonight we have some amazing pictures to show you of research being done real time inside a real tornado. storm chaser reed timor rode inside a twister last night in oklahoma. somehow he managed to launch probes to measure pressure and wind speed. you've got to see this. take a look. >> watch out for these trees. wait for it. we've got to do it, joel. wait for it. ready? go ahead. get a little closer. launch. we got to go again. get closer. launch it again. launch it again. >> launch, launch. launch. >> get down, get down. >> we're good. >> get down, joel. drop it down. drop down. de...

Across i-40 in that region? >> right now we have a rotating wall cloud just to our north that could put down a tornado any second andwe we're trying t get in position to deploy probes to collect data on this one. it could touch down any second. i'm looking at it to my north. and it's right at the intersection of 377 and interstate 40. >> all right, well, if anybody's listening, and we hope they hear the location of that devastation and certainly either get below grade or get out of that little region right there. what are the wind speeds that you can tell? can you measure that from the car tha...

Luckily the wall cloud missed us. but we run into a situation like that all the time. the roads in western oklahoma are not necessarily all maintained. >> jeremy, final question to you, you said that you've been doing this for ten years. i imagine your tone would have changed had you been near a larger city where the damage could have been horrendous. >> oh, absolutely. and unfortunately, we've been -- my partner and i have been in two towns or watched two towns basically get destroyed this year, tuscaloosa and mapleton, iowa. it's something that i never want to see again. unfortunately, i've ...

Of it, a giant wedge tornado. >> it's starting to come a little bit -- now it's making a left turn. i'm stopping because it's coming up to i-40. i'm stopping as it's coming up to i-40. unbelievable. it is right here. it's a killer tornado. >> they have shut down i-40. they're not letting people go on i-40 near this thing. el reno, get below ground. you see that, that's a giant cloud on the ground. that is a maxi wedge tornado.an. >> the wind damage is incredible. winds are 80 to 100 miles per hour in-flow. the wall cloud is just about to grab a couple hundred feet. it's coming up now making an...