spin back up into the clouds could come back down at any time. wolf, the storm you re seeing on the screen is now becoming the main tornado. it is still many miles from pender. it is still many miles from thurston. a lot of wide open countryside here. this is the ef-4, possible ef-5 damage. we have debris signatures in the air which means the radar itself is picking up debris in the air. go ahead, ben. and left side we have a large tornado, a new tornado that has formed left side of the screen. again multiple tornadoes on the ground here. how many are you talking about, ben in. two possibly three. i ve never seen anything like this wolf. i ve been storm chasing for probably 10 to 12 years professionally. this is just very, very dangerous. what s your contingency plan if these tornados move towards you? again, we re south of the
identify the man who could not speak. he is 36 years old. a father of two boys and a girl who adored his children and took the job as a aboarder guard to build them a home. wolf, what makes this all the more unbearable and difficult for the families that they re unable to retrieve his body because isis controls the area where it is believed to be at this point, wolf. what a horrific situation. arwa damon in erbil. thanks very much. full analysis coming up but there s breaking news i want to get to right now. a tornado is on the ground in nebraska. our meteorologist and severe weather expert chad meyers is standing by. look at those funnel clouds, chad. what is going on? tornado on the ground just through the pill jer, nebraska, p-i-l-g-e-r, very close to stanton, nebraska.
circulation. so we re in a safe position. but i just i guess i could turn around if i had to. we re just trying to get this information to you so you can get it out to the folks in this area and protect their lives and property. if anybody s watching in this area, chad, what do they need to to do right now? absolutely get underground if you can. this is a tornado with winds of 200 to 225 miles per hour right now. and you need to be underground or inside your home with as many walls between you and the outside as possible. and what i don t want you to do, ben, is get on any dirt roads now. this storm had a lot of rainfall before it started, before the tornadoes cape down. all of those dirt roads in the nebraska even some of the they call them all-weather roads are wet and swampy and you cannot drive on them. you don t want to get stuck on a dirt road. look at that, wolf. two tornadoes on the ground right now. spinning there in northeastern
stanton. that went away. these chasers were to the east of that tornado, thinking they were in very good shape. all of a sudden, we saw the new tornado signature on the radar. the storm regenerated a tornado about four miles east of that first one. separated from the first one and moved there. this one you re looking at right now is a very large max i tornado. we re looking at ef-3, ef-4 damage that moved through that town. we saw debris in the sky from that town. it is now north of u.s. 275. and the one that you re looking at, you just can t see it to the right if they pan to the right a little bit, that one would be moving towards wisner, nebraska right along highway 275. you need to be taking cover now. this is open country, but these are major tornadoes on the ground. wind speeds in excess right now, wolf, i m going to going 175 to 200 miles per hour. paralleling themselves. hold on. and in northeastern nebraska.
can see in the left side of the shot. the tops completely removed and i m getting worried folks watchinging about injuries and possible fatalities now. this is not a light situation. you need to take it very seriously. we re very worried for folks at this point. this is pretty rural this area. it s not very urban, right? it is it s pretty rural. there s still a lot of farmer steads here in eastern nebraska. it s a large industry. there are still lots of folks with their livelihood out here. we don t want to underplay the threat. chad, that tornado looks huge. i m not an expert by any means. but it looks so devastating. give us an explanation how big this is. you know, ben just said, it s probably a good three-quarters wide. there s a little spin right to the north of you a half a mile. keep looking forward as you re drive. that second tornado that did