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In. and the waves are getting very very high. they are expecting the waves to be about 20 feet high at the moment, erin. pretty incredible. stop and think about that for a moment. 20-40 foot waves. 11 foot surge. as he said the worst storm in more than a century possibly. let s bring in jeff petroski, he s a storm chaser, live pictures from his car. he s in jensen beach florida. this is what you do is chase the storms. what are conditions like right now as you are driving around? and i ll make the point we don t see anyone else on the road. looks like a lot of people have gotten out. only people on the road over here is me and law enforcement. and they are out in full force. a number of county sheriffs as well. the state highway patrol is here in full force on the outer barrier island. a few elderly people staying in some mobile homes out here. ....
Jeff petroski, what is it like where you are? reporter: well, wolf, we had the first tornado touch down northwest of aurora about 45 minutes ago. i tracked the circulation to the southwest side of the national airport about a mile south of the runway. it became rain-wrapped. and then we had a new tornado develop that was actually quite large. i have one south of the dia runway, that was on the ground for about two minutes. then it lifted. and then as that tornado lifted a new one came down, and i got a tornado on the ground right now. stand by. tornado is now on the ground, one mile, tornado on the ground, again, three and a half southeast of dia airport, moving rapidly at 40 miles an hour. 100 yards wide, white cone, probably 65 miles an hour, ....
On the plain, the large mezocyclone to the west, i had the big cloud to the northeast and the wall into the rain. all the way around, the storm on the south side of dia airport, and then the rain evaporated from where it was raining around the tornado. and the large northwest tornadoes were inside the rain, i saw it for 35 to 40 seconds. it was violent motion, i would call it a large significant tornado about a mile and a half to two miles in the open field. to my knowledge, no damage that i m aware of. but this is an open field south of dia airport. chad, jeff, hold on for a moment. we have another storm chaser, where are you, storm, what are you seeing? reporter: okay, mr. blitzer, i m nine miles north of bennett ....
Two miles max. the main tornado vortex, i don t know what kind of damage is currenti i occurring based on the doppler radar. looks like it was 100 miles an hour back to the west-southwest, we may have wind damage just south of the dia airport, and powerful winds and large hail. jeff, hold on for a moment. i believe chad myers, our meteorologist has a question for you. first, let s put it into perspective, chad is in a good spot. here is the airport, the runways, you are in the middle of it, jeff. as the storm went by you, multiple vortex tornadoes, is that what you were just seeing or one and then another tornado out of the same cell? there is one after another chad, we the tornadoes would cycle in the wall cloud, they became rain-wrapped, and then as the circulation got larger you started having them small enough ....
This racist rant and helped the world to uncover the racist rant. and then she went on television with the visors, she has quickly gone to sympathetic to sell iin out. and i believe everybody in this particular situation, especially donald sterling needed to shut his mouth a long time ago. she needs to, as well. she just needs to stop until this is over. don, jeff, i want you to stoo stand by, we ll have much more in the next hour, and more with don lemon at 10 p.m. eastern. just ahead, passenger collision courses, happening much more often than people believe. why are so many planes coming close to disaster? hey! [squeals] ....