it s not going to get worse for you. everybody else, they re still trying to pick up pieces through here. about i ll say 20, it could be 20 to 30. a 30-mile wide f-4 tornado sat over your house for 30 minutes as the eye rolled from one side to the other. that s what these people dealt with. even in america, an f-4 tornado goes by and hits your house for eight seconds and it s gone. this was a lumbering storm over these areas not just for ten seconds but more tens of minutes. once you lose a board and a shingle and another and another. and there will be little standing in this damage path. thank you very much. chad myers following the image and the storm s track. if you would like to help, go to cnn.com/impact. we re going to keep an eye on those images over there. a young woman gets into a car, goes to a gets into a
bad spots yet. and we may not for a while. you re going to have to fly into those areas because the roads are completely shut off as well. getting in and out of this damage path is going to be a nightmare for weeks to come, don. i see the radar up on the screen to the bottom right, left he depending on where you re looking. here is the thing, track it for us. who is getting hit the hardest and who is out of the woods? this is as close as it s getting to manila. there s one more outer ban here. we always try to use the angles to figure out where we are. the storm was probably 3450 mils away from manila when it made land full. eventually it gets out into the south china sea and then into vietnam. what you re seeing is what you re going to get.
what, more than two miles wide this thing was? reporter: yeah, we talked about this yesterday, carol and the day before, how i just have never seen a damage path like this damage path. where we had tornado damage two miles to the north and another half mile to the south of this interstate, i-40, and it was just i thought there is no possible way this could be an ef-3 tornado. they are going to upgrade this, and yesterday they did upgraded it to an ef-5 with wind speeds approaching 295 miles per hour. carol? sorry, chad. i m just looking at that damage, it s incredible. this thing was upgraded to an ef-5 and so wide if it hit a more populated area it would have been even more devastating. reporter: it would have been unbelievable.
monster tornado, it just kept spinning this wall cloud and the suction vortices would come straight down to the ground. you could also see the upward motion, too, so it s not just the really violent horizontally rotating motion but also the updraft that caused some of that damage and thankfully at that time when the video was shot there was open farmland that went further east and caused damage. we saw some storm chasers and motorists that were thrown off the road. we pulled them out of their vehicles and it was just a disaster, very violent tornado and today was one of those days where you knew there was going to be strong tornadoes and they seemed to keep hitting oklahoma, and a really eerie part o today, when we were chasing that weak rain-wrapped tornado it thankfully weakened moving through south oklahoma city and we dropped south and went to the damage path of the ef5 tornado just, what seven to ten days ago and i live actually two to three
miles south of that damage path so our thoughts and prayers definitely go out to the people out here in oklahoma city and south of oklahoma city in moore, because it is going to take years to rebuild. it looks like a war zone out there. this tornado took a hard turn and tornadoes that are this strong, you can see how volatile those vortices can be and scientifically in terms of tornadoes it s right near the ground, the suction vortices, it s a big mystery how fast the wind speeds can get in the suction vortices. some theories show on small scales the wind gusts could be 400 or 500 miles per hour so suction vortices are the reason why you have one house that will sustain complete damage and the one next door will be left untouched and if we can better understand the wind speeds in those suction vortices we can better build structures to withstand them, that s how we build ourored vehicles with the spikes and hydraulics and