type of circumstances because the tornado itself and those conditions can rapidly expand like it did and become a huge wedge tornado and if you get too close to it, you could get hit by it. and simon, i know michael bettis, mike bettis also talked today on morning joe about rethinking this and said, when bill karins asked him, you know he said i m going to talk to my family. if my family wants me to wrap it up, that s what i ll do. your thoughts? well, i mean every person, every chaser has to make that decision on their own. really, like the tornado that we encountered on friday, wasn t necessarily, i mean it was a very intense tornado, capable of probably causing ef-4, ef-5 damage. but it like we could be dmeer that tornado and other circumstances and the storm itself would not be as dangerous as the storm was on friday. what made friday very dangerous
reno friday night. samaras son paul was also with them. this is from the discovery channel. they were on the show storm chasers. chad meyers was in oklahoma after a monster storm hit two weeks ago. he shows us how dangerous it is to be in a car. reporter: just piles and piles of debris here in moore. ef-4, ef-5 damage. somewhere around 200 miles an hour. it is unimaginable what could cause a house to turn into that. if you think about a fender-bender at highway speeds of 30, 40, 50, 60 miles an hour, it gets bent up. i get it, it is fixable. we came across this car. i can t tell what you kind of car this is without looking at the blue oval that says ford. if you were in this car at 200-mile-per-hour wind speeds twlb s no place left for you inside. then we came across the front just to get even more crazy.
this is a serious rotating storm. brooke, the tops of the storms are up to about 50,000 feet tall. that s ten miles high. so, the severe hail that can come out, the wind that can come out, and, of course, the tornado damage, as well. sometimes hail and wind can do as much damage to a house, not ef-5 damage, but certainly significant damage to a home and, obviously, to your health, as well. you need to take cover. these storms mean business today. wouldn t be here if i didn t think that this could be a significant day here. this could be a day where we have big tornados again on the ground. talking ef-3s or greater tornados on the ground possibly running into populated places, so pay attention today. so, just so i m hearing you correctly, chad, you are saying a possibility of multiple, multiple tornados. i think without a doubt there will be more than one tornado on the ground at the same time in different locations, but that s because the storms have not made
more time. you have the two-story building. then the second after, that is not completely demolished. that s the reason it s an ef-3. i want you to look around. we had it as an ef-5 damage, but the winds are only 160 to 200 miles per hour. the winds are way stronger than that. the damage you are seeing, if you spin around, that is not ef-5. no, we do see walls standing here. some parts of the neighborhood where there s nothing left. there are walls where we are now. you are right. ef-5 is very, very strong in certain parts of the line of this storm. when you live through something like this and your house is destroyed, you don t care what ef it is. you are right. ahead on starting point, five days after receiving a c-section a woman had to race to her car to flee the tornado.
hasn t been able to make phone communications or a lot of people get scared, leave, think they are safe. contact your family, let them know you are safe. have you everybody else worried to death about where you are, did you leave? we don t know where you are. please contact your family if you haven t and let them know. we ve been talking about lives lost 24 certainly too many. but when you walk through the damage, it s shocking it wasn t more lives lost. the injuries not as bad as you might expect. why is that do you think? moore is pretty resilient, and as you know, we ve had several tornadoes through the area. our citizens pay a lot of the attention to the weather. they are used to this. pay a lot of attention to the weather and they heed the warnings, and, you know, you have the damage, you have the things still happening and you can prepare a lot. but if you can t get in a