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So taking a live look outside, it's very humid and it's partly cloudy for now.
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We are still primed and ready for another round of severe weather.
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It's going to feel quite sticky later on this afternoon.
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Dew point, which is the measure of moisture in the atmosphere right now is the 70s.
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And a brief break on Wednesday before our next storm system moves in, but it's not going to be quite as potent as this last time.
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So we will be tracking it for you today.
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We'll have our crews out once again.
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Crews including our very own Reed Timmer from the Form 1 Storm Team, Dominator 4.
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Great job yesterday covering the storms.
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You too.
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You led the Today Show.
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Wow, yeah.
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I didn't know if you knew that.
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Just fun, yeah.
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Big deal.
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Okay, so we're gonna show some of your incredible video here.
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Well, right here you can see it forming just near Edmond.
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That's just west of I-35 or on the bridge of I-35
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and you can see the debris flying around and it became violent really fast.
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I mean, even the small tornadoes can be very strong.
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Across I-35 right there, you can see there's no cars in the path, thankfully.
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And a continued east.
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You can see the debris flying around.
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And this is as we're going east, and you can see this tree just rocket, skyrocket up at like 200 miles an hour, and that's that updraft inside the tornado.
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And there are suction vortices going around the back behind us as well.
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Explain what that is to the viewer's suction vortices.
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Those are the miniature tornadoes that will spin around inside the main circulation.
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So above us, there is a cone, And that's one of those suction vortices in front of us that's ripping the trees out of the ground.
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You can see the circulation, the main circulation above right there.
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And here we're a little bit behind the tornado.
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How far away are you right there?
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Right there, probably a couple hundred yards, I would say.
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I mean, it was vibrating, felt like it was gonna lift off the ground any second, but that's just the instinct that tells you to get out of there.
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Well, great job today.
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And I know we're gearing up for round two, so hopefully you can find some rest somewhere.
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I think you said like no sleep.
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Yeah, I think we both probably had no sleep.
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I don't know why I'm still amped up.
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Jolene brought me Starbucks.
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All right, we'll have more coming up in the next half hour.
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Good job.
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All right, sir, you're done.
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Did that make sense?
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Yep.
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I probably had two and a half hours.
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I don't know.
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I can't go to sleep after that.
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I was just like, it's too late to explain.
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Yeah, I had about two and a half actually too, exactly.
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Yeah.
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But no, I'm not used to it.
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Okay?
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Oh, yep.
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Okay.
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And I got into the studio and realized why I was down all morning but it's okay now.
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You said that you have issues with that.
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Yeah, every tornado.
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I'm out. If the
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stream doesn't work today, then we're all fired.
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We're all getting asbestos poisoning from the brakes anyways.
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They bring it down about halfway.
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We gotta put the tire on and have him do it.
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Gotta get the gear prepped for the chase.
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In Dom 1 that includes a trash bag for all the luggage in the backpack, because it's usually soaked afterwards.
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It's a lot of storm chasing convergence already, and we haven't even gotten out there.
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Haven't seen Reed in a while.
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Should be fun.
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Now welcome to the Freak Show here.
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Hi Freak Show, hey.
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Good to see you too.
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Glad you made it.
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You beat Kentorey.
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Is he here too?
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No, I didn't see him yet.
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Yeah, you better hurry.
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Yeah, look at the satellite.
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It's already blowing up here.
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Yeah, I want to stop the dry line right before I came in.
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You guys going south?
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Yeah, oh yeah.
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No, we want to be with you.
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I mean, we want part of the circus.
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I'm not going to get away from that.
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Are you sure?
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Sure you want part of this?
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There's even a lady two doors down that just randomly came in and started to be cleaning.
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And that's Connor, the future of storm chasing.
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Right, I remember.
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Hi, Connor.
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Hey, how you doing?
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Yeah, he's 50 tornadoes at age 21 now, right?
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What?
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Started at 14 when you started chasing.
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14?
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C-O-W-A-N.
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He's just a little womanly attached to it.
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We gotta get, uh-oh.
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We gotta get a kid.
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We're a good kid, Tori here, don't we?
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I'm going to show you another day.
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This one again promises to be one with Tori.
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Report on the show now in the office of Tori.
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Listen, the Homeowners Association calls me like they think I'm somebody.
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I am nobody, but they call me and they always ask me about the guys next door.
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So I always protect them.
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I said, well, Papa will go mow the grass and we'll do this and we'll take care of that.
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And so I try to protect them.
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I'm thinking, no PhD students just trying to do the right thing in life.
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Are you taking the puppy?
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Oh no, no, but I love her.
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Always did.
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Yeah, she's a sweetheart.
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Yeah, she's so cute.
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Your fingers out, I can drop it.
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What's going on?
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How are you?
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What a day yesterday.
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You missed all the fun.
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I know.
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Up there in Kansas or something, right?
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Up there with Dorothy?
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I was trying to get world news done.
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I know, I know.
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Unbelievable.
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Yeah.
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So how are you doing today?
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Are you chasing with us?
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Kind of.
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We're doing a bunch of...
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That's probably a smart idea.
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Thank you so much for all your help though.
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I have a cleaning service too, so How are you doing?
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I'm doing good.
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Yeah, you know I'm how good can I be after an hour and a half of sleep?
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I'm doing television at 5 a.m.
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Yeah, do you have a dream kid Tori?
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Hello My hands, yes, you know I've had a lot of women tell me that I don't know what it is about
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I'm giving zero early 30.
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And I thought, who is this guy?
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I've never seen him.
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I don't watch Channel 4 much. But...
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Oh, oh, so they had us on Channel 4.
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No, I saw your hands and I thought, he has the nicest hands.
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Oh, thank you, John.
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Who knows about that?
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Who cares about that?
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They would have a nice hands.
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Does anybody know whose iPhone this is?
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Hey, guys, who's missing an iPhone?
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It's a complete circus here.
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We need to get on the road.
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Half these people, I don't even know who they are.
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This circus, it has a purpose, right?
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Warning?
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Getting the word out?
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Yeah, right now we're heading south and the whole purpose of heading south today is not only for research,
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but to stream video and keep people worn in the path of the storms and that's what we do best.
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If you're going to chase tornadoes, you better be in a vehicle that can keep you safe.
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So, this is what we call the Dominator here.
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It's an F350 pickup.
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And what they've essentially done to this thing is coated with armor.
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That stops the flying debris.
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We have Ginger Zee and Jim Cantore both chasing with us today.
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So, it's kind of crazy that we're having all these big news and weather personalities out with us.
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Thank you for letting us be with you.
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No, thanks for coming.
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Okay.
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Yeah, you're a good luck charm.
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Every time you come, we get a tornado in the Ozarks.
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We're not in the Ozarks.
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We're not in the Ozarks today.
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Yeah, it's happening.
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Does D2 have air conditioning since I'm riding in there yet?
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Or am I going to get a good...
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You'll get a good lather going in there in all these vehicles.
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It'll be a glisten.
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I'll wave.
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You guys ready?
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You stay at Tim's?
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What's happening?
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No, we're going to, we go, I go to, we're staying at a hotel.
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Oh, well I have a hotel room.
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Dominator 2, which I will be riding in just down there.
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They have an anemometer, we'll be doing research.
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They're coming.
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I'm on it.
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Yeah.
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South on I-35.
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Yeah.
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Gosh, I'm just happy Reid let me come along.
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This is going to be a lot of fun.
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World News Nightline tonight.
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Got a lot to do in the next hour and a half.
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storms too.
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Alright listen I'd love to play but we gotta go.
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I know everybody says no
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but look at this circus how could the HOA not be spying on us are you kidding me?
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Yeah you're only allowed to have one vehicle in your driveway
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and look at a circus here you can see the two tour vans You've got Dominion, you've got to make friends with somebody with a warehouse.
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Yeah.
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Alright, if you make something with friends with a warehouse, you can go park the vehicles over there.
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Well, we can park these in Cape Four, which we should do.
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Man.
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I'm going to start the street.
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Steamy back here.
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Yeah, Cape Four choppers are going to try to get the aerialists going into the tornado.
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They can like zoom into the license plate.
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Oh, dude.
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That's what I'm talking about.
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The people watching the live stream at tvandweather.com get to hear the commotion of us driving into a tornado.
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Might not be a good thing.
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And, yeah, you know there's none of that usually.
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I had a couple people tweet me yesterday, George, did you ever get around to changing your pants?
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I'm like, come on.
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Really?
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Let's go to Reid Timmer in Dominator 4.
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He's also down in that part of the state, closing in on those storms.
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Reid, what do you have?
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Hey, right now we're headed west on Highway 9, and we're going to drop south out of Blanchard.
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Right now we've got sun, but we've also got some clouds too, and that's going to actually increase the wind shear ahead of these storms.
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It's going to keep the surface winds relatively weak, but the winds just above the ground are very strong, probably 45 knots.
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And we should be on these storms shortly.
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We'll have visual probably within about a half hour.
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Okay, Reid, appreciate that.
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And the Dominator right there.
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So here's the bottom line.
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If you're tuning in, here's Oklahoma City right here.
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There is a dry line just to our west, and storms are now firing from the southeast side of Chickasha.
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You know what I bet knocked it off there, Reed?
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Was the frickin' shaking we did yesterday.
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Remember that?
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I'm telling you right now, it just rocked that thing right off there.
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They made both my legs numb too the whole time.
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Just freaking chilling.
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I bet we see big tornado today.
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I just think, I just feel like we have bojo right now.
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In the last few days I've been
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doing so much driving compared to usual and you know a lot less forecasting on my own but
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that's what Reed Timber is for.
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And I've been doing all forecasting making decisions uh well yesterday and then trying to do like logistics.
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I hate that the two together is just not not for me.
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It feels good to be back.
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You get to know these people so intimately when you're in the car with them for so long.
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And it feels like you're back home.
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It's kind of nice.
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Especially since I moved since then.
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I don't really have a whole close-knit group of friends yet.
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And this feels like it.
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Ginger!
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Do I do a quick picture?
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Okay.
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Quick picture.
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Can you email it to me?
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Can you take this photo?
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Yeah, please.
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Alright.
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Wow.
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Okay, now action shot.
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Alright, we nailed it.
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Thanks.
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Done.
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We'll see you on the other side.
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We'll see you on the other side.
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I don't know if I like to eat something
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that I have to chew like a hundred times before I can swallow it.
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Wait, like a real gizzard?
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That's weird.
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Like a real taco and a real gizzard.
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A gizzard.
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A deep fried gizzard.
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Oh.
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It's really chewy.
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You sure you don't want one?
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Yeah, I'll try it.
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Really?
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Yeah, why not?
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Just fish yourself down here.
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Really?
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And this is storm chasing food?
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Fried gizzard.
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That's true here.
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Mmm!
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I'm still true.
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Mmm, so good.
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Sea storms are lining up now from east of Pawka City down to near Stillwater.
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Those are just now forming.
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And then these are getting to be pretty big time now.
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Southwest of downtown Oklahoma City all the way back down into Cotton County.
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And we have three supercells here.
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So we're just coming upon this cell right here.
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blowing up along the dry line and we can see them right overhead.
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That's good.
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Good.
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That looks pretty good too.
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Heading straight for Norman.
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Do you want to take this one?
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No, just wait here.
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No sir.
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Just wait?
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Yeah, it's coming right at us.
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I did some in there but we'll do it.
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And they also want a thing where you're just standing for 30 seconds.
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Let's do that right now right now.
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Yeah, let's do that scanning thing.
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We have a rain-free base here that we're looking at right now.
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You can go to our website at tvnweather.com slash live.
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It's a little bit high base right now, but there is a tornado.
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You can pull out one of that if that's easier.
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Is that good?
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This is the exciting part where I get to stand and nod.
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I don't see any rotation.
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Mike?
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Time to go?
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Yeah, you ready?
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Your photo cloud's been reported to the south.
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The one just south of us.
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You can see the back side of it.
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Unless you think this one has a chance.
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All right, we go on this muddy road.
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This one has been taking over.
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There's no doubt about it.
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Still a big mid-level lock.
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It's got a big, broad circulation on it.
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And it is heading right into Moore.
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We are under a tornado watch until 10 PM tonight.
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There's a dowel.
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Where are those guys going?
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Back to Norman?
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They've got to be trying to stay up with that cell.
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I mean, they're not going to...
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The problem is the front's going to undercut that one pretty soon with these northeries behind it.
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I mean, do you see the front right here?
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Yeah, it's going to start chewing in that other area, right?
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This is a supercell.
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There's the mid-level lock there, just right on the west-northwest side of Bridge Creek.
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This is going the wrong way in a huge hurry.
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Talking about Moore and Norman for this storm right here.
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There's your time of arrival on that.
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Let's jump back up to this storm up in the Newcastle area with Bob Moore Chopper 4.
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Go, John.
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Yeah, Mike, there it is.
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It's continuing to lower down a little bit more, and it appears at this time that it's definitely getting better organized.
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John, I need you to push in a little bit.
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There's so much haze.
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I just looked at radar.
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It's going to come down right now.
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I guarantee it.
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I think it's already on the ground.
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There's suction spots.
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Folks, this is terrible, terrible for Moore and Newcastle.
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I see a tornado now on the ground.
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I think it is on the ground in these rotating rain bands.
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Let's go to the south Doppler, and I can show you.
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It is an absolute sink drain.
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Sink drain right there.
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That is a tornado.
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Those rain curtains are rotating.
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That's a vortex on the ground.
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That is a tornado right there.
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It's going to hit the Newcastle casino if it doesn't veer off.
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Yeah, look at the front.
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On the Norman Storm.
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What?
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Tornado warning on the Norman storm.
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I just asked my girlfriend to get on 35 and drive north to shoot some tornado video for us.
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She's going north of Norman.
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She's going to be pissed.
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TDWR?
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Yeah.
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See, I can't get anything.
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Is that Verizon right there?
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I'm roaming on Verizon.
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Sorry, man.
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I can't get data for some reason.
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I can't.
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I can't either.
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This stuff could line out to the north, just like Wichita did yesterday, Oklahoma City stuff.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Safe situation, yeah.
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Alright. So if that deserves...
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Woohoohoohoo!
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Big group!
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Big group down south.
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Alright, two tornado warnings and...
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tight up there.
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Southwest and more.
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Could've sat in Reed's backyard.
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That's what I suggested.
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Yeah, it's heading right for my house.
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Yeah, it's going straight through North Norman.
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It's heading right for Tecumseh.
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Yeah, we should have stayed home.
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No, it's early.
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No worries.
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All the storms will go crazy today.
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Very early.
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Yeah, tornado warning from my own hometown right now.
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Heading straight for my house.
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I'm going to call in, see if I can call in Channel 4 and see if they have any updates.
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Linda Kavanaugh has important information.
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Very quickly, police department says they're getting a lot of phone calls.
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Oklahoma City, they said they have no public shelters.
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Shelter in place as these storms approach.
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Also, parents from Middale, the buses are being held there.
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Until further notice, your children will not be on buses at this moment.
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Mike.
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Linda, appreciate that.
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Continuing to track what I believe is a tornado on the ground.
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I wonder, is he going to stay south or is he going to go back north?
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He's going to stay south, huh?
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These are the decisions that I was having a hard time making yesterday, logistically.
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You know, it's just luck of the draw.
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Storm chasing's all luck.
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Mostly luck.
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We're gonna have to call in pretty soon here.
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What? That happens.
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That's just a bumpy road.
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It's gonna happen.
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Don't worry.
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Still going south.
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Are we going the wrong way?
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No, not the wrong way.
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There's not going to be too many wrong ways today.
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I just, uh...
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It's a pretty solid hook on the one up to the north, but...
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I trust him.
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You can see the base down there.
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The southern one's the best one.
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Oh, yeah.
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Without a doubt.
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Without a doubt.
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I haven't had a radar update yet.
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Oh, God.
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I just got new data, man.
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Thank God.
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Look, look at that.
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East central Stevens County over into southern half of Garvin County and far northern Carter County.
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Let's go back up to Bob Moore Chopper 4 with this, what I think is a tornado on the ground.
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Go, John.
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Yeah, Mike, right now we're kind of hovering.
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And as you can see the lowering, hey, Travis, go to your right real quick.
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Go to your right.
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Zoom in right there, right there, zoom in.
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Come back to your left iris up.
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There it is, Mike.
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There it is.
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If that is a tornado, there it is.
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It's right there on the ground.
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That's the clearest defined or definition that we've seen from the air.
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A definite cone on the ground.
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Law enforcement reporting tornado on the ground for sure.
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Between Moore and Norman.
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Tornado on the ground?
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Yep.
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Oh, that is literally the backyard.
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Yeah.
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Right over Newcastle High School.
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That is a tight little thing, man.
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Wow, school's in session right now.
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It's a Monday.
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It's not summertime yet for the high schoolers.
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We're in good position here.
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That's not good.
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There's a water tower just north of me, and I obviously can't make it out to see exactly how street that is, but that's where your tornado is right there.
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Look at it, Mike, on the ground, coming down.
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There's your a lot better shot, and man, this dude, we're getting pretty close to it.
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It's going to be just a couple miles north of the Bailey Turnpike right there on the ground.
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Folks, this tornado has power.
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This tornado has power.
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Let's go.
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We've got to break away.
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Go to the, oh man, let's not break away yet.
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Okay, so we've seen many reports, and I'm hearing from my people back in the newsroom
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that the tornado is definitely on the ground because it's live on a couple different other networks, and it's up near Moore right now,
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so basically in the backyard of where we were.
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But we are still going to head south, it looks like.
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Maybe he goes to work on the highway.
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I don't know right now.
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It's hard being back here because you don't really know, but I trust him again.
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We'll drive south at Aron Springs.
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We're too far south to catch up with the one to the north, but our storm is going to do the exact same thing.
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Hopefully it stays out in the open country.
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We'll drive Jim into another tornado today.
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It's going to hit the Newcastle Casino.
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It's a quarter mile west of I-44 right now.
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It's a mile right down the N.C.
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Bailey where it turns down south.
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That's where it is right there.
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Folks, this is heading into Moore.
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This is heading into Moore.
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Heading into Moore.
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This tornado is heading into Moore from the Newcastle Casino.
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Tornado emergency in Moore right near my house.
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This is May 3rd all over again.
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Oh my god, it's an F5.
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Yeah, this seems to be priority stat one.
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Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| tornado noun | /tɔɹˈneɪ.doʊ/ | A violent wind in the form of a mobile, rapidly rotating, funnel cloud that has contacted the ground. |
| chase verb | /t͡ʃeɪs/ | To follow at speed. |
| circus noun | /ˈsɜːkəs/ | A traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other novelty acts, that gives shows usually in a circular tent. |
| circulation noun | /ˌsɝkjʊˈleɪʃən/ | The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began. |
| folk noun | /foʊk/ | People, persons. |
| casino noun | /kəˈsiːnəʊ/ | A public building or room for gambling. |
| debris noun | /ˈdɛbɹi/ | Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed. |
| backyard noun | /bækˈjɑːd/ | A yard to the rear of a house or similar residence. |
| zoom verb | /zuːm/ | To move fast with a humming noise. |
| gear noun | /ɡɪɚ/ | Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor. |
| shelter noun | /ˈʃɛltə/ | A place where a person or animal may find protection from the elements (especially rain, storms, or cold) sometimes as a place to sleep (such as a cave). |
| sink verb | /ˈsɪŋk/ | To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance. |
| radar noun | /ˈɹeɪˌdɑɹ/ | In full primary radar: a method of detecting a distant object and determining its position, velocity, or other characteristics by analysing radio waves… |
| hurry verb | /ˈhʌ.ɹi/ | To do things quickly. |
| southwest noun | /saʊθˈwɛst/ | The intercardinal compass point halfway between south and west; specifically at a bearing of 225°. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| blow up verb | To explode or be destroyed by explosion. |
| break away verb | To leave suddenly. |
| come down verb | To descend, fall down, collapse. |
| close in on verb | To enclose around; to tighten or shrink; to collapse. |
| come along verb | To accompany. |
| get around to verb | To eventually begin or return to some task. |
| get out verb | To leave or escape. |
| get out of verb | To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 121 contractions and reduced forms, such as we're, I'm, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: southwest /saʊθˈwɛst/, southeast /sawˈθɪjst/, northwest /nɔɹθˈwɛst/, lather /ˈlæð.ɚ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: circulation /ˌsɝkjʊˈleɪʃən/, shelter /ˈʃɛltə/, shortly /ˈʃɔɹtli/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, trash /tɹæʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: circulation /ˌsɝkjʊˈleɪʃən/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/, unbelievable /ˌʌnbɪˈliːvəbl̩/, miniature /ˈmɪn.(i)ə.tʃəɹ/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like tornado, chase, circus.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | I've been doing · has been taking |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | haven't even gotten · Haven't seen · I've had |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | are still primed · is coated · been reported |
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.