Posted on 05/09/2006 8:25:52 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana
Details are sketchy, but this is what I'm hearing on Lubbock, Texas, TV weather reports. (Ron Roberts on KAMC says it might have gone down the main drag of Childress).
Doh! Should be "touchED" down.
Panhandle ping.
ping
How ironic... lol
Just heard on our local news here in OKC that Childress had a lot of damage from this touchdown of a tornado.
Tornado on the ground approaching Anna is what we heard.
Oh wait...this is a separate Warning. N. Central Collin County, TX.
From accuweather.com.....http://wwwa.accuweather.com/watches-warnings.asp?partner=accuweather&myadc=0&traveler=1&zipcode=75409&county=TXC085&zone=TXZ104
Last I heard was that it hit the "main drag", which is where all the businesses and restaurants are around 9:30 p.m.
Hopefully, if I know places like Childress, most people are gone from these areas by 8 p.m. at the latest and are home.
However, I did hear that the tornado was headed for Quanah, Texas.
Westminster, TX as well (Far north DFW area)
Yall take care
Power is out in Anna accding to some ham operators in the area.
Latest update on Childress per KAMC Lubbock:
power completely out; high school heavily damaged; lots of businesses damaged; homes with windows out due to hail
Any new information from Childress?
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1036 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN FANNIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT
* AT 1031 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS AND DOPPLER RADAR OBSERVED A LARGE TORNADO 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF MCKINNEY...OR 5 NORTHEAST OF ANNA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... LEONARD AND 9 MILES WEST OF BAILEY BY 1115 PM
Certainly appears to be a tornado on radar heading for Vernon, Texas.
The current Confirmed tornado, however, is from a different storm in the NE suburbs of Dallas.
Sounds like North Texas is no place to be tonight. I hope everyone is safe.
At least by 9:30 p.m. maybe there weren't any students in the high school (doing sports, etc.) or citizens at the restaurants.
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