see, it looks like people searching for anything, anyone that they can find. trying to help. um you know, can you talk about what s going to happen tomorrow when the sun comes up ? that s when the national weather service will go in and try to try to figure out just how intense the storm was as well as emergency crews being able to do a more thorough search. yeah the national weather service will send out storm survey crews with the ef scale. that they ll determine the rating of this tornado engineers determine the structural integrity of some of the homes. the businesses that were damaged by this and that s how they ll get an estimate of the wind speed from this but exactly what you pointed out. an important part of this is that we re just barely into the very beginning of the springtime severe weather season. this is when we expect, of course not to this intensity , the magnitude the scope of this event. this is when we expect severe weather in these areas. but through the winter sea
karen? yes, it was a frightful afternoon and evening. and just to, uh, point out how the central plains during this time of year become very active with severe weather. 31 years ago, almost to the day, the city of andover, which was struck tonight by tornados, was struck by an f-5 for nay dough. that was 41 years ago. now, we use ef scale that does damage, as well as wind speeds but they will send out a crew tomorrow for national weather service, and assess just how strong this tornado was. here is the setup. a very active weather pattern across the central plains. behind this system, lot of dry air. it is also cooler airment buff where you see this lipo of storms, that s where we saw violent storms tonight. now, we have severe-thunderstorm watches out across nebraska, iowa, kansas, and a portion of oklahoma. it looks like the tornado watches have all disappeared but that doesn t mean you can t
ef-scale, zero is the weakest, five is the strongest. this appears to be a 3 or 4. this was the image taken during the lightning flash last night. again, we had a tornado outbreak for the eighth straight day in a row. devastation in the middle of this country, the ohio valley, is just insane with the amount of houses that have been destroyed any river flooding, flash flooding. four rivers fell yesterday in areas of ohio, areas of arkansas because of the flooding near the arkansas river. these are all the tornado reports from yesterday. 51 yesterday alone. the monthly total is now heading up over 500. that s much higher than normal, it should be. we had a quiet sort to this year. we ll do it again today, 48 million at risk. strong storms forming in ohio. heading for baltimore and philadelphia even towards new york city late today. again back in the midwest we ll do it all over again.