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Which normally is not the strongest part of the storm. another thing that stood out was the amount of lightning. we were flying through at night, but once we got into the eye, i was taking photos like it was daytime because there was just so much lightning outside. it's really just those simple factors that really contribute to these storms growing in size. that ocean temperature, the low wind sheer, those kinds of things. >> your tolerance for these things is high. this is what you do for a living. but you're saying today was different than anything else you've been in. at any point were you ...

>> they've made a steady march across the central atlantic. it's in a volatile environment. you see all of the brown located around the storm. that's fiona. that's dry air and wind sheer. that's eroded the storm in the past six hours. we do not want to write the storm off just yet because some of the computer models hint at the strengthening and the potential for some impacts along the u.s. coast potentially. we're monitoring that. here's a look at the watches and warnings. puerto rico, the british and u.s. virgin islands under tropical storm watches. this is the latest 50-mile-per-hour winds ...

In front of them are gone, so you can directly see the path moving right straight through there. >> reporter: as the community grieves, many are asking why. >> this is the largest event ever in december in terms of severe weather and tornadoes. >> reporter: experts are working to understand what fueled these monster storms. >> this is very unusual. >> josh durkey is a meteorology professor at the university of kentucky. >> there is warm air ushering in a lot of moisture in the lower levels of the atmosphere, and the wind sheer set up an environment for storms to tap into that environment and t...

As well. let's talk about the warnings in place right now where you see these colors, it corresponds to a warning. where you see that red, that's a hurricane warning. now, one of our biggest concerns, immediate concerns right now that severe weather. we have had many, many tornado warnings. hurricane kind of has all the ingredients it needs to spawn these tornadoes. right? it has the warm, humid air, the super cells, the wind sheer. then it has that friction with land. so we are looking at the potential for this to continue at least through the evening. so we're looking at quick to spin up and...

Storm there. that is rotating. that has a rotating updraft. you can see the dense rain shaft. that was only minutes away from approaching the shore. after that came through we were blasted by 50 to 60 miles per hour winds. you saw beach goers running when they saw that storm approaching. it looked very ominous. they were running to get out of the rain. a storm like that is certainly capable of producing a very damaging waterspout that can come ashore via tornado. i have chased well over 35 of these. i have seen several tornado damage paths produced by the outer bands. even such, very sharp, lo...