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cnn news 2013-06-02

I'm Wolf Blitzer in for Anderson Cooper.Welcome to the podcast.

Tornadoes hit the central plains of Frake.Cars explode just outside a major American city. Let's get started.

We begin with the breaking news. What lookslike the start of another round of punishing weather on the central plains.Four, yes, four tornadoes hitting north central and northeastern Kansas,including this one caught on tape in the town of Corning.

That is in the sky. Oh my egg rule.

That's huge now. And it's not moving veryfast.

Holy (expletive deleted). Hey, just look.It's sucking these clouds in.

Yes, it's getting bigger and bigger.

That is crazy.

In just a moment you're going to hear froma storm chaser who just made it through a twister inside a kind of custom-madetornado tank. But first, Tom Sater is in the Weather Center. Tom, there's quitea bit of severe weather out there today. We've heard reports of four tornadoesthat touched down in Kansas today. What's the latest?

Well, the good news, Wolf, is that theseare in extremely rural areas but let me start with this note for you. The monthof May is the most explosive month, the greatest number of tornadoes in theU.S., roughly around 384. Halfway through the month, on the 15th of the month,we only had three but on that day, on the 15th, it was Hood County, Texas, andthe fatalities in Granbury, then it was east of Oklahoma City in the communityof Shawnee. And we all know about Moore that followed.

Currently on the map here we have severethunderstorm watches you'll see with funnel clouds that were in western Kansasbut it's the red box, this is the tornado watch box. This is in effect until10:00 p.m. Central Time, and this is where we've had the four tornadoes. Thefirst one as we saw the pictures there of Corning, did drop and it brieflydissipated for a while. Then it was near the town of Minneapolis, notMinnesota, this is Minneapolis in Kansas, and then just south of there, we alsohad one near Bennington.

Salina, just north of Salina, we've got asmall tornado as well. Population of 48,000. But all the ingredients are ripefor tomorrow, another outbreak, where we have sent our very own cnnmeteorologist Chad Myers. He's on his way to Wichita. The threat from Kansaswill move in tonight, not as strong since we lose the daytime heating, but thethunderstorm threat with hail and damaging winds could go into the Tristatearea of Indiana, Ohio, southern Michigan, maybe even in toward the northeast,the New England, late tomorrow afternoon.

But the biggest threat right here as yousee here, and let's take this so we can all see this, it's not just a slightrisk area. This is a moderate risk which again means the possibility of supercell thunderstorms, Wolf. They have their own circulation, they move sometimesin a random helter-skelter fashion and this is where we can see the tornadoesfrom areas of Nebraska through central Kansas, Oklahoma, this time east ofOklahoma, but as we all know these systems slide off toward the east.

An interesting note, too, Wolf, if you goback to the beginning of the year, January 1, the U.S. has seen the fewestnumber of tornadoes since 1954.

Seems like Mother Nature's making up forlost time. But we'll keep you covered. Chad Myers, as mentioned, will be inWichita throughout the day tomorrow.

So it looks like it's going to be badtomorrow in Wichita, but once again, just tell us about Oklahoma City becausewe all know what they went through last week in Moore, Oklahoma, which is rightoutside.

Well, the biggest threat there is going tobe obviously just debris. Any winds that will kick up even from what we call anoutflow boundary, even if these super cells are well to the west of OklahomaCity or Moore, those outflow boundaries can obviously stir up the debris, whichis going to be quite dangerous. Anyone living in this area really knows now ofcourse to heed the warnings or make the precautions now, but some of these, wecould reach in the range of EF- 3, EF-4 so again, it's a moderate risk which isfairly high, Wolf, on the scale of our threat.

Everybody has got to be really, reallycareful out there and take all of the precautions.