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How carefully are you able to ? there s a certainly amount of chaos at play, you can t know exactly where it s going, how narrowly can you predict its path? we had issued a tornado watch about two hours before the touch down, the initial touch down just west of moore, we knew the conditions were becoming much more favorable, along and east of a dry line that often is focal point of storms here in oklahoma. but when you see the storm and see you see where it s setting up, you can t say precisely how strong that tornado is going to be. meteorologist is a science and certainly the tornado warning system has come a long way since its inception in the 50s, but we have a long way to go. today unfortunately is a warning of how melissa mentioned earlier ....
Through the midwest and the plains over the weekend. thousands of people are picking up the people in dozen of towns. but our chief meteorologist rick reichmuth is live in the city where that twister hit. reporter: imagine a tornado hitting at 12:158 in the morning. a lot of people hope to rely on a tornado warning system. but a storm went through and hit the siren system so the siren did not sound. they don t create sirens to let people inside know there is a tornado. but a storm hits in the middle of the night, you can see this one it forms 50 miles from mere. it was moving 0 miles an hour at its forward speed. cutting a path from the southeast through this town. take a look here now at what s left of this residential area. these are solid homes. these are brick homes and they ....
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This happened after at national weather service publicized a revamped tornado warning system. that is getting credit for help keeping people safe? reporter: not in this particular instance. the new national weather service warning system, that s going affect kansas and missouri, not l rolled out in texas. you ve seen the picture, the destruction. i want to show you a closer view. we ll bring you inside. dennis wooten, a gentleman nice enough to let us see what happened to his moment. rewee bring you into the living room here. you can see the devastation. dennis is cleaning up as he speak. he and his dog sonny picking up pieces. notice the hole in the roof, insulation that came down into the main living area. what caught his eye when he pointed out to us look at the wall. right where it meets the seam where the ceiling is, newspapers somehow wedged in between the wall. one of those unexplained forces that you see as these tornadoes ....
Leaders personally, but from what i ve seen on tv, the city of arlington was evidently hit very hard, and i believe lancaster as well was hit pretty hard. mr. mayor, thank you for the time this afternoon, and again, all of our thoughts go to everybody in every community in texas this tuesday afternoon suffering from an extraordinary display of natural force in a very, very densely populated area. the best thing we can report today is the effectiveness of the tornado warning system, so while the storms have been intense and obviously have been in a heavily densely populated area, the ability to anticipate their arrival for most at this point has, at least for now, kept the number of casualties reported down. we ll take a momentary break. we re back with you here right after this. i take insulin, ....