When Form 2220 Columns 2023-2024

I'm Stormtracker meteorologist Allison Miller. Our spring season got off to a slow start, but it has picked up. That's all because we're seeing our classic severe weather set up: this cold upper-level low and cold front bringing in the cold air behind it, clashing with the warm air. We're also getting dry air colliding with humid air, so right along that boundary layer is where we're getting the severe weather outbreak. All across the central plains, and extending into Texas, we're experiencing the largest outbreak right over Oklahoma. This is how tornadoes form, starting right where those air masses are colliding. We get wind shear, which is the winds changing with height. We get this rotating column of air on the ground. The thunderstorm lifts it up and turns it vertical, creating violent rotation. This is basically what a tornado is. Sometimes you can't even see these tornadoes because air isn't colored. The way you can see thunderstorms form is when it picks up debris or water drops and you can see the rotation from the cloud to the ground. You need to check out this video, which was caught on tape by Charles Cook. You can see the formation of the funnel cloud and then it touching the ground, where it picks up debris and you start to really see the shape of the tornado. This was the historic storm that moved through yesterday from Newcastle over towards Moore. You can see the strength and intensity of the debris stretching over two miles wide. It's an incredible video that he has posted on YouTube. Let's go back to the graphics and you can see this tornado. The one in Moore will go down in the records along with some of the largest tornadoes on record. The Tri-State tornado...