right now, i m actually starting to see rotating rain currents. it s got to be really close. may have to dive south a little bit to stay safe here. i would say it s got to be a strong tornado. just by radar signature. as of yet, i can t confirm, but there s i would say there s probably something definitely on the ground. is this the first one you ve seen today, jeremy? yeah, it is. on i was the same storm system in tupelo and could not get a view of it. same scenario, very rain-wrapped system. and i know it did heavy damage over there. i just said, kept going east out of its path. i couldn t get any view in the trees and didn t want to get run over. very hard to chase in this part of the country. very dangerous situation. you re a professional storm chaser. so are you heading toward the storm right now? or are you driving away from it? no, right now i m driving south a little bit because i was seeing rotating rain curtains and didn t want to get into the circulation. right no
i do believe this is on the ground. it s up in those rotating rain curtains. there s jack town right there. here s highway 62. this is meeker. this is the pottawattamie county line right here. this is lincoln county right here. all lincoln county. jack town right there. meeker right here. it s only four miles west of meeker. and i m showing vortex circulation here. in the past sweep, just the past sweep, it has come down a notch. it s probably spinning out right now or at least spinning down. it has been on the ground back in through here. a tight vortex signature. there is a tornado warning firmly in effect with this storm. let s go to the storm tracker. and you folks from jack town, it s over jack town right now, over to meeker, and meeker in particular, could go as far north as sparks. you folks need to protect your life as this heads your way. you want to be someplace below ground out of the way. storm cellar, basement or saferoom if you re fortunate enough to have one of those. th
south of here, we saw rotating rain curtains. we saw a large tornado on the ground. it went from 100 yards wide to a quarter-mile wide and 30 seconds later a half mile wide. this thing came down as an f-4, almost instantaneously went to a mile wide and moved across the south of the state at about 30 miles an hour as an ef-5 and did tremendous catastrophic damage another this location. i want our viewers to listen to this clip where you re telling police officers that a tornado is coming. let s listen to this. hey, guys? the tornado s trying to come down right here. the winds are out of the north, then coming back around. the tornado is right here. it is coming on the ground right here. get the sirens going, get the sirens going, i m telling you. tell me about that. the alarm sounded 30 seconds after that. you said the police didn t even know the danger was there. they already had a previous
a spa and gym. we ll take you inside on this american morning. good morning to you. thanks so much for being with us on this thursday, may 26th. welcome back. what a whirlwind few days it s been for you right there in the heart of what s going on joplin, missouri. it continues. and more bad weather. another night of meteorological mayhem as tornadoes wreaked through the region. from louisiana to the great lakes. oklahoma s governor declaring a state of emergency in 68 counties hit by tornadoes. this video taken by storm chasers is about as close as you can get. 16 people were killed in the latest round of storms. in memphis tornado warnings ringing out again last night, the sirens sounding. you can hear them there as the sky grows darker by the minute. an ominous sky, a funnel cloud that was in the distance. the national weather service warned people in memphis as well as nashville to take shelter and in some cases to evacuate. right there, you got it. we ve got a