>> you very much. weather channel meteorologist jim cantore is on the ground in henriville, indiana, the scene of some of the worst damage we have seen all day. jim, are you with us?
>> reporter: i am, brian. we just got on scene here. it's awful. the same thing we looked at in harrisburg, illinois in terms of ef-4 damage. behind me complete destruction. who isses blown off their foundation. there is the high school you've probably seen from the air, as well. what i've seen are trees stripped from their barks. the worst thing is to see the look on their faces. people taking things that they have and walking out of town right now. it's very, very chaotic. obviously, police, fire on the scene, constant sounds of ambulances. very close to the heart of downtown, no question about it. this is going to be a tornado that is going to be probably producing ef-4 damage. winds 170 to 200 miles per hour here. you look back at the high school , you see a brick building, a roof torn off, winos, doors, walls, complete walls blown in here. as far as the eye can see, i can see up the hill. probably at least 1/2 mile to 3/4 mile where this thing went. if you trace the storm, it started back in southern illinois , came across all of southern indiana , produced tornadoes with it, then worked its way through northern kentucky . we had word of tornados with this supercell. there are two that tracked across this area as you've seen it from the air again, just complete destruction in through here to homes, businesses, to trees, to automobiles. right now again, just getting on the scene, we are seeing chaos here as people are trying to figure out what the heck went through here. as a meteorologist, i can tell you it's a tornado that probably produced winds between 165 to 200 miles per hour. we knew this was coming and unfortunately have to talk about it tonight.
>> we have dozens of communities under a take-cover warning. you look at the geography of this. it's a north eastern weather event down to the mississippi delta . can you remember this long a line and this numerous a number of funnels in one event?
>> reporter: brian, you know what this reminds me of, the superoutbreak of 1974 . it covered a lot of real estate. we had storms that impacted 15 states with tornados here. you've got, again, this type of outbreak going on. very far to the north. the difference is, that was in april. here we are in early march. the climate changing brings us these outbreaks earlier in the year, it looks that way.
>> jim cantore , fast work getting on the ground in henriville,
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