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To: HairOfTheDog
Yes! - I want pictures of twisters!

I have a picture. It's not Corin's tornado. It's the first one I saw on the day of the Jarrell tornado. I don't know enough html so I'm just going to type it.

www.vvm.com/~curtis/Stormchase.html

This is a guy's webpage that is a meteorologist in central Texas and is also storm spotter. The storm in his second photo on the page was the one I spotted and followed to Jarrell. I worked in an office right down the farm road from Spring Valley, the community he mentioned. They announced on our PA that a tornado was spotted and everyone should take cover. My desk was on the second floor and I could see the tornado. I had just gotten on the stormwatchers team from my county - and I had a jeep. I grabbed my radio, jumped in the jeep and went. The 3rd and 4th photos are also part of this. That guy says the tornado dissipated and another one formed in south Bell county, but I was following and I didn't see it go away. I was watching it stay together the whole way. But, of course, he is a meteorologist and I had only just been trained so I didn't know what I was doing.

32,587 posted on 05/09/2003 3:37:42 PM PDT by Wneighbor (aka Mrs. Field)
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To: Wneighbor
Rose was at home when the Jarrell storm passed a couple of miles to our west and hit the Albertson's store in Cedar Park. I was trapped at work... I was working at Motorola's Oak Hill facility, and they herded everyone down to the first floor and wouldn't let anyone leave until the tornado warning was over. I was quite p.o.'d about that at the time.

By the way, we took a drive up to Taylor today to see what land might be available up there, as well as figure out how long it would take to drive to Dell from there. Had a nice afternoon drive, then went out to dinner!
32,619 posted on 05/09/2003 7:13:25 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (Dumb mobs bomb mud.)
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