and my brother and my mother started falling back as the floor gave away, i grabbed her and pulled her back in this area right here. we have a tree right here, a tree right here, all around us, it s chaos and things are going to hell in a hand basket, yet here we are. not touched. jenna: what an account. he s lucky he survived. two people, though, died in those tornadoes, an 83-year-old man and this 16-year-old girl. jon: you can see here how a tornado forms. experts have desmed that what they call an ef3 twister hit those areas of jefferson county, an ef3 typically has wind speeds between 136 and 165 miles per hour. they can knock down walls and damage to homes is usually severe. jenna: jonathan serrie is live in clay, alabama. jonathan, just seeing around you just like utter devastation. reporter: it truly is. take a look around here, over here, this what looks like used to be a mobile home, unsalvageable. as we pan to the right you can see this debris scattered. crews
now. one man rode out the storm in his home and described what it was like to see it crumble around him. i felt that pressure on my body, felt it in my ear, i said everybody get down, get down now. that s when i covered up, and my brother and my mother started falling back as the floor gave away, i grabbed her and pulled her back in this area right here. we have a tree right here, a tree right here, all around us, it s chaos and things are going to hell in a hand basket, yet here we are. not touched. jenna: what an account. he s lucky he survived. two people, though, died in those tornadoes, an 83-year-old man and this 16-year-old girl. jon: you can see here how a tornado forms. experts have desmed that what they call an ef3 twister hit those areas of jefferson county, an ef3 typically has wind speeds between 136 and 165 miles per hour. they can knock down walls and damage to homes is usually severe. jenna: jonathan serrie is live in clay, alabama. jonathan, just seeing aro