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earlier that showed homes that were leveled and buildings that were destroyed, i think, chad said this earlier, he was saying this was likely an ef-3 or stronger. that s what we would call a major tornado. winds around 150, maybe 165 miles per hour. you know, the weather service will come in and they ll look at all the damage and find the worst of the damage and get an estimated rating on that. it s hard to look at a tornado, a wedge-sized tornado, but when you re talking about a quarter of a mile to or three-quarters of a mile wide, i believe that s what ray foreman the meteorologist in joplin said, the path was probably a half a mile to three-quarters of a mile wide, we could be talking ef-4 potentially. we saw what happened in alabama on april 27th and this may be on par with that in items of such a large tornado and such a destructive tornado. are you standing by chad myers? yes. i want to you look at this
like. the tornado that hit st. john s hospital, some of the debris was picked up there and in dade county, about 70 miles away, people were finding x-rays from st. john s hospital in their driveway. oh, my gosh. this was a very large tornado. we have tornado warnings ongoing now but south of the joplin area. i wanted to ask you about that. what can you tell us about the warning system you have in joplin. do you have sirens? how much time did people have in that area to take cover? i would say on average in the joplin area, most people had at least 15 minutes of warning. the warning was issued before the tornado formed 37 we actually started seeing the rotation on doppler, so we were able to issue the warning, but within minutes of issuing that, that s when it actually came together, just on the very western outskirts of joplin. it went from one end of the town to the other. are there sirens there, ray? yes, yes. that s something you can t live without in this part of the
okay. hey, steve, will you just hold on real quickly? ? we appreciate you helping us out here. i want to bring in ray foreman, a meteorologist at kode in joplin, missouri. again, a meteorologist there. hey, ray, thanks for joining us. don lemon here, jacqui jeras our other meteorologist a long with chad myers. bring us up to date on the situation where you are. well, this was actually a devastating tornado. it seemed as though most of the path, the damage path, goes right through the heart of joplin. in fact, the hospital here at st. john s hospital, one of the two we have, appears to have taken a direct hit from this. they re evacuating the hospital at the moment. they set up a mobile triage unit at memorial hall, one of our facilities here in joplin. chad myers, have you some questions for ray? we did hear this tornado was on the ground for a very long time and i know you were tracking it. any idea what the size was, potential wind speed was? i assume you ve seen pictures.
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