美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-06-02

 I'm Blitzer for Anderson Cooper, welcome to the podcase.

Tonrnado hits the centrel plains, and a tring of cars explode just outside a major American city. Let's get started.

We begin with breaking news what looks like the start of another round of punishing weather on the centrel plains. Four, yes four tornados² hitting north centrel and northeastern Kansas, including this one caught on tape in the town of Corning.

--That just got, oh, my God, it grows huge, now.

--And it now move very fast.

--Holy...

--And it looks sucking those cloud.

--It's getting bigger and bigger. It's crazy.

Just a momnet you're gonna hear from a storm chaser who just made through a twist inside kind of customer made tornado¹ tank. But first, Tom Sater is in the Wheather Center. Tom, it's been a quiet severe weather out there. Today, we first reports of four tornados that touch down in Kansas today. So what's the latest?

--The good news that these are extremely rural areas, but let me start with this note for you. The month of May is the most explosive month, the greatest number of tornados in the US, roughly around 384. Half way through the month on 15th of the month, we only had three. But on that day, on 15th, it was Hood³ County, Texas, in the fatalities⁴ in Granbury. Then it was east Oklahoma City in the community of Shawnee. And we all know about more that followed.

Currently on the map here, we have severe thunderstorm watches, you see,  with funnel⁵ clouds that were in western Kansas. But it was red box here. This is the tornado watch box. This is the fact until 10 p.m. central time. And this is where we had 4 tornados. The first one is here, we saw the picture there of Corning, did drop and it briefly⁶ dissipated for a while.

Then it was near the town of Minneapolis, not Minnesota. This is Minneapolis in Kansas. And then just south of there we also had one near Bennington. Salina, just north of Salina, we've got a small tornado as well.

Population of 48,000, but all the ingredients are ripe for tomorrow, another outbreak where we've sent our very young CNN meteorologist Chad Myers, he's on his way to Wichita. The threat of Kansas will move in tonight, not as strong since we lose the daytime heating. But the thunderstorm threat with hailling and damaging winds could go into &&&& area of Indiana, Ohio, southern Michigan, uh, maybe even torward the northeast of New England late tomorrow afternoon.

But the biggest threat right here, as you see here -- let's take this so we all can see it. It's not just slight risk area, this is a moderate risk, which again means the possibility of supercell thunderstorm. They have their own ciculation, they move sometimes in a random⁷ helter skelter fashion, and this is where we can see the tornados from areas of Nebraska through central Kansas, Oklahoma, this time east Oklahoma. But as we all know, the systems slide off toward the east. An interesting note, too. If you go back to the beginning of the year, January 1, the US was seeing the fewest number of tornados since 1954. It seems like Mother Nature is making up for last time. But we keep covered, Chad Myers as mentioned, will be in Wichita throughout the day tomorrow.

--So it looks likt it's gonna be bad tomorrow, but once again, you just tell us about Oklahoma City, 'casue we all know what they went through last week in Moore Oklahoma which is right outside.

--Well, the biggest threat there is gonna be obviously just debris⁸. Any winds that kick up even from what we called outflow boundary, even of these supercells well to the west of Oklahoma City, or Moore, those outflow boundary can obviously stir up the debris which is gonna to be quiet dangerous. Any one living in this area really knows now, of course, to heed⁹ the warning, make the precautions now. But somebody we could reach in the range of EF-3, EF-4. So again it's a moderate risk which is fairy high on the scale of our threat.

--Everybody's gonna be really really careful out there, and take all of the precautions. Tom Stater, thanks very much.

1 tornado   

n.飓风，龙卷风

参考例句：

• A tornado whirled into the town last week.龙卷风上周袭击了这座城市。
• The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。

2 tornados   

n.龙卷风，旋风( tornado的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• And the national weather service reports several tornados touch down. 国家气象中心报告预测龙卷风将来袭。 来自互联网
• They had stock footage of lightning, tornados, and hurricanes. 他们存有关于闪电、龙卷风和飓风的电影胶片。 来自互联网

3 hood   

n.头巾，兜帽，覆盖；v.罩上，以头巾覆盖

参考例句：

• She is wearing a red cloak with a hood.她穿着一件红色带兜帽的披风。
• The car hood was dented in.汽车的发动机罩已凹了进去。

4 fatalities   

n.恶性事故( fatality的名词复数 )；死亡；致命性；命运

参考例句：

• Several people were injured, but there were no fatalities. 有几个人受伤，但没有人死亡。
• The accident resulted in fatalities. 那宗意外道致多人死亡。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 funnel   

n.漏斗；烟囱；v.汇集

参考例句：

• He poured the petrol into the car through a funnel.他用一个漏斗把汽油灌入汽车。
• I like the ship with a yellow funnel.我喜欢那条有黄烟囱的船。

6 briefly   

adv.简单地，简短地

参考例句：

• I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
• He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。

7 random   

adj.随机的；任意的；n.偶然的(或随便的)行动

参考例句：

• The list is arranged in a random order.名单排列不分先后。
• On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查，发现肉变质了。

8 debris   

n.瓦砾堆，废墟，碎片

参考例句：

• After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
• Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上，导致蛀牙。

9 heed   

v.注意，留意；n.注意，留心

参考例句：

• You must take heed of what he has told.你要注意他所告诉的事。
• For the first time he had to pay heed to his appearance.这是他第一次非得注意自己的外表不可了。