we know about how their banks are under limited hours, you can t take much money out. long lines and all of that. far more effective hit as is is what is happening on a more every day front. mcdonalds pulling out of the country. 800 plus mcdonalds are shut down no starbucks there. i always start thinking about the russian people what are told very little but they start noticing this sort of stuff. it s one thing to wait on a long line to get money out of your bank if you can. it s quite another not to get your big mac. these every day things are the kind of things that hurt vladimir putin. i think you re right, neil. you and i are probably old enough when mcdonald s opened in russia. it was at the end of the soviet period. i can remember the enthusiasm
of times we see the video, we see a defined funnel. good bet with the amount of rainfall we saw, very difficult to see any of the tornados that perhaps people may have been very close to. and just have the stats here on how many tornados we see across the country from 1981 until 2010. 80 in march. look what happens in april. you know may being the heaviest of tornado activity across the u.s. in june, certainly, one of the highest, as well. 243. we ve been talking about a tornado drought. go back to early in march. the yellow numbers indicate the confirmed or reported tornadoes in march. 18, that was the quietest march in 35 years for tornados. then, the next month. only 83 tornados. the quietest month, april, in 21 years. in the past five days, 111 tornadoes, bringing up around to the average mark of 276 and 207, being the number we re sitting on. an active pattern, certainly.
start to get picked up. chad myers with us. stay save, chad. chad will be with us all night, as we continue to cover the damaging tornados in oklahoma. now, the destructive power of the tornadoes in oklahoma, really an incredible sight. we ll have the latest from the ground and from the cnn weather center as they tell us as many as 23 tornadoes hit across a huge swath of the country. stay with us. çñ
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just 12 days ago, we had tornadoes through oklahoma and moore. the ingredients had been in place for seven to ten hours. this has the possibility of curing. the moisture coming off of the mexican gulf. cool, dry air in the north of this region. 1,000 tornadoes every year in the country. 800 of them happen out of oklahoma, kansas, working towards missouri. the highest density area, the people most used to it were impacted by this. you have so many, 18 reported tornadoes on friday. that many come down in five to six hours. and the majority touching down from 5:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. in this region. going to catch people off guard. and look at the lightning strikes. tabulating nearly 14,000 lightning strikes in 24 hours across this region. 600 or so in this region.