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Is going to block these weather systems from hitting joplin here. we re going to go up and around. looking excellent. next frontal boundary moving through probably around tuesday, but really not looking for all that much with it. much deserve and much awaited respite from severe weather here. you see those boxes, they re going to remain to the north and west. relatively quiet for the entire southeast under that influence of high see the clouds with the clockwise rotation? that s what we have for the memorial day weekend upcoming. we leave the severe weather well to the north. chicago getting in on that as that front is draped through there and bringing some nasty weather. all that across the ryuko archipelago of japan. see a remnant low with a nice cold front now as it continues or has at this point finished its extra tropical transition. ....
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i wasn t not until later. i was on facebook and saw posts from meteorologists telling people to take cover and the tornado was coming and i saw it and took cover myself. it s just indescribable what happened. i haven t slept. it occurred and trying to update people and help where i can. that s all anybody can ask for. i think like everybody thinks that it is very tough and weather is not cooperating. it s a very bad situation, piers. and how far away were your aunt and uncle from where you are? two to three miles from where i was downtown to the north. it s relatively undamaged now but you go a mile south, two miles south of where i live, it s an eraser just half mile wide just eliminated half of the town. ....
What did you see? has there ever been anything quite like this before in your storm chasing career? yes. back in 99 there was the most intense storm and how fast the tornado came down on the southwest side of the city and then how fast the width of the tornado literally exploded from a few hundred yards wide in the first 30 seconds on the ground to almost a mile wide and about two minutes later. and that s what i witnessed. and then moving through the city at close to 50 miles an hour at mile wide ef-4 tornado created tremendous damage is what we witnessed. yesterday in joplin and that s what we witnessed this powerful tornado that moved through the city of joplin. you re an experienced storm chaser. you do this for scientific reasons and create very valuable research by doing this. there must have been moments last night when you were fearful ....
yes, piers. we know conditions are bad and communication is bad from joplin because of appalling weather you ve been having. tell us exactly what happened to you. i m not sure if he can hear me. can you hear me, tom? yes, piers. i know the communication is very bad. we ve been having trouble all day. it s obviously terrible weather still in joplin and will only get worse. tell me, tom, what happened to you last night? talk me through the experience you and your daughter had in the tornado. we heard the first tornado sirens go off and just from watching some of the radar we knew that that one was going to be going a little bit north of us. it s just when we heard the second set of sirens that we actually knew that we might be in for something a little bit worse from watching the radar on ....