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chief meteorologist rick reichmuth. rick: good morning, the town of rolling fork has about 1,750 people so imagine a small town like that everybody knows everybody, and now you re going to have everybody who knows somebody if you weren t yourself impacted by the storm. it s going to be a really rough day for people as the sun comes up just exactly one hour from now. this year has been a really active tornado season. we ve had 282 tornadoes. typically so far in the season we would have 174 tornadoes, and you get a look at that. this is just your statistical averages. march right there, we are headed into our what is generally really active months of april and may and june. doesn t mean that ll be the case this year but certainly that trend has been the case. all of this has been those storm s that have been coming across california, have made their way across parts of the south where its been really warm, above average temperatures for a long time, and those temps are st ....
That hit overnight. rachel: and now 80 degrees. rick: sometimes you can get the storms really cold behind it so you rather at least it be warm because nobody has power. if you have nighttime temperatures where it gets into the 40s after these storms that s brutal as well, but yeah, a warm day for them today as they are doing search and rescue. pete: rick i m always interested in warning. there was a general understanding that the storm was coming, but how much time did each individual community have for like hey it s coming your direction. rick: so rolling fork was the first town that this cell hit, this tornado hit, and they only had six minutes of warning from the time the warning was hit to the time the tornado hit the town so not much but the area yesterday had a really elevated threat for severe weather including tornadoes. it was really well-forecast that yesterday had the chance for some large destructive tornadoes, and it ended up verifying. will: it s a good question as the st ....