Hit mississippi almost exactly one year ago. watch and listen to this as one storm chaser captured a monster twister on camera yesterday. large tornado coming in across the interstate 55! this is south of exit 243. a large destructive tornado! this is a really big tornado. this is large, large, large tornado. i m stop iping. this is a tornado emergency south of batesville. you can hear the adrenaline just pumping in his voice. that s one of the many people following this system when it was on the ground. on the phone now is another storm chaser and meteorologist. thank you so much for gegts on the phone with us. you heard your fellow storm chaser the adrenaline in his
Communities are across the south are dealing with a brutal reality this christmas eve. a devastating storm system has killed 11 people. the doeath poll picking up. thur hop 40 people have been injured and at least 14 tornadoes hit mississippi yesterday. some also thinking that could have been different sightings of the same massive tornado that ripp eped there. look at this monster twister. listen. . here we go right in front of me. stay with me. large tornado, holy mackerel, large tornado. large tornado coming in across interstate 55. this is south of exit 243. this is going to be a large, destructive tornado south of batesville. this is a really big tornado. this is a large, large, large tornado. this is a tornado emergency south of batesville. you can hear the adrenaline
Injuries and things like that. but it s not been a massive amount as of yet and, again, where we are, there s a lot of damage but it s like the power lines are leaning on themselves. they haven t gone too much on houses. so far where i am at, i ve gotten reports of injuries except for on the scanner a couple coming across the scanner in. somebody got hit by glass and things like that. scott, where are you right now? are in you a car? i m on johnson street. i m on the street. we parked and we re checking out some damage. and so far it appears that the damage is strong but not as bad as it could be. scott morris with the northeast daily journal in tupelo, thank you so much. please stay safe. up next on the lead, we ll stay with mississippi where they are nervously watching and waiting for the dangerous storm system to move through. more on which areas could be in the path of a monster twister
Even as the risks have never been more apparent. you might remember the deadly tornado outbreak that tore through the heartland last may. this monster twister killed nearly two dozen people in the area of el reno, oklahoma, including a veteran storm chaser. we have the senior editor and staff writer for outside magazine. he has studied that particular event and this overall phenomenon. grayson, so many people want to get up close to these monsterous tornadoes. there are companies willing to take you, but you say it is not necessarily something that is a good idea? well, you know, it is actually easier to get out on these storms now than ever before. they re in the, since about 2,000, there are dozens of these companies that have cropped up, that will take beginners out and get you in front of a tornado. most of that, most of the time you spend chasing is, you know, time spent in a van driving thousands and thousands of miles
Lives. reporter: a monster twister that forecasters predicted all week could happen and it did. hold on, brothers. hold on. reporter: a crew from the weather channel caught in the middle of it. everybody duck, go, go, keep it going if you can. everybody duck down. reporter: watch as a violent tornado sent cars, trucks and everything else in its path flying. the storm so erratic among those killed were veteran storm chasers tim samaras, his 24-year-old paul samaras and fellow researcher carl young. three men who normally found themselves running toward the storm, rather than away from it, as sceeen here in the discovery channel show storm chasers. samaras explained why in 2004. why do you want to get so close to tornadoes and do this? i plant probes in the path of tornados and in order to get them correctly in the path you have to be close.