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And then glass was flying everywhere, and glass was flying everywhere in my house and out of my porch. i looked out and, i mean, it was just, it was a nightmare. gregg: in alabama the coast guard searching now for a missing swimmer. a spokesman says life guards spotted the man struggling to stay afloat yesterday. they were unable to reach him in the very strong currents. meteorologist maria molina live tracking in our weather center the tropical storm, debby. maria, where is it, where's it heading? >> reporter: it's about 70 miles to the south of apalachicola, the center of it at least. but, g...

With this line of storms, it is now approaching santa monica. there could be some hail and even a tornado. that's a possibility. notice the tornado watch that has come out across this cold front. that's where storms will initiate into parts of tornado. we're looking at a hail and wind threat. a chance of tornadoes. tomorrow as the stronger storm comes out of the west, a lot of moisture feeding into that. we'll see very strong winds aloft. the wind sheer that is necessary to produce rotating storms and tornadoes, that will really converge on the central plains. so a significant tornado threat i...

Way around southwesterly at high levels in the atmosphere, and it's that wind sheer that causes that super cell to spin like a top. i would say there is probably at least two or three tornadoes on the ground in that cluster in northeast texas south of paris right now. >> thank you for your time and analysis, reed. reed timmer, our storm chaser with the discovery channel. we'll take a quick break here. you can see the live images and intense energy that is being released from that scene. this strip of red, the consequences of that energy -- there you go -- there will be pictures like this for h...

Area. the shear values are high enough that what you're getting is not only storms building up to the atmosphere but because of the change in wind direction and wind speed, that is creating a rotation in the atmosphere, much the way it would if you were to roll a pencil in between your two hands. that rotation then gets tilted into the vertical and gets these storms rotating. so that's the environment that we're at today. again, it is not the most extreme environment with a tremendous amount of wind around, or wind sheer. but it is enough to get these storms rotatinrotating. we've been looking...

Damaging tornadoes on the ground already. >> and that acceleration of energy is a function of the warm air that is in that region? >> basically, the storms that happened last night in oklahoma, they shifted all the air south toward texas. it takes a while to lift north, but as that lifted north, the northern edge of that moisture instability is where you have that enhanced wind sheer to make she's storms rotate, and that's why these super cells have been producing prolific tornadoes, because there is that much more energy that makes them spin. >> the biggest thing is the variance, correct, tha...