tornado hit, while, check it out. this morning, the airport partially reopened despite delays and debris everywhere. clayton: i can t say you ve ever seen video of a tornado occurrence, we see it from earthquake in japan and rick reichmuth, our chief meteorologist is there at the airport and, everyone was finding shelter and nobody was killed. it s fortunate, a large tornado. 30 mile path and an ef-4, winds offer 166 miles an hour, so incredibly destructive and i talked to a woman earlier today. who said i didn t think that tornados could hit an airport. i think people don t think of it hitting an area where there could be a lot of people in a public space and people think of their homes as maybe more of a dangerous area and hitting this, the video was quite spectacular and such a fortunate story. now, today them getting back
they re saying. but it s certainly scary and they re saying that this was an ef-4 tornado. we ve got a lot of tornados, in fact. around 560 at last count in the month of april alone. and a number of those ef 3 s and those are over 160 miles an hour and devastating effects and when you see the images, especially in the neighborhoods coming out of here. that s when we re taking the worst. and the airport, ef-2 a slightly weaker tornado, but they think they were 30 miles straight. anybody in the 30 mile path was in it. more severe weather today and see what the threat it. going on from areas of texas, and all the way up to new jersey today. and dealing with the threat of severe weather, including tornados. but move forward into tomorrow s threat and it comes back up here towards the st. louis area. so, st. louis was hit yesterday, and now, being hit potentially again tomorrow.
tracking this massive storm. who is already seeing the effects? well, so far we re just seeing a little bit of snow with this this arctic cold up toward the north. that will continue to cross the lakes and in to the northeast, but that is not the major portion of the storm. it s way back here and as this disturbance brings more moisture across portions of the south and as this colder air sinks farther toward the south, the writing is on the wall for what you say could be the most crippling storm we ve seen this season. in the initial offing here around portions of texas, louisiana, mississippi tomorrow, severe weather. damaging winds possible. we ll see that snow begin here around the plains and across portions of the midwest to great lakes and into the northeast. it as wide swathe of snowfall and heavy snowfall that we could see. one foot and more totals over a 2100 mile path. all the way from oklahoma up to chicago across the midwest and into the northeast tuesday and
baby. this tornado that hit mississippi traveled some 150 miles and was reportedly about a mile wide. rob marciano has been keeping an eye on things. where is that weather? it s out of that area in particular, but other people might be under threat from the same system. the energy moved off to the east and that storm cell that produced the tornado is certainly incredible and the width of the path and the length of the path just amazing stuff. 97 miles long. maybe longer than that once they get the surveying done. in some spots a mild to a mile and three-quarters wide. ef-4 with winds of 170 miles per hour or better. it happened during the day but it was wrapped in rain so it was hard to see. no mistaking the aftermath of that. this is all headed to the east. the tail end of this, the back half, the trailing front is now moving through south florida. this has been producing some severe thunderstorms, heavier rain. certainly lightning and gusty
on the gulf coast. reporter: well, it is because it was such a large tornado. you re talking about something two miles wide. it s damage like this to a house, cowerport s gone, once that goes, you re pretty much at the mercy of whatever the wind throws in there. this is just one home. if you look across this little lake, you can get an idea of which way the wind was blowing, coming from this direction and kind of blowing trees over just like they were bowling pins. you can go just as far as you can see and you can go as wide as you can see to see that type of destruction. we ve already seen the national weather service declare this as a 97 mile path. here s the deal. there s still half of the keens in mississippi to survey. they re going to do that this afternoon. this could very well have a path between 180 and 200 miles an hour. that s one tornado. and that would be hick path for mississippi. the longest track ever here was back in march of 1966, 203 miles.