Posted on 05/15/2013 6:53:07 PM PDT by Windflier
Update at 8:46 p.m., by Tristan Hallman: WFAA reports homes have been leveled in Hood County.
Update at 8:06 p.m., by Tristan Hallman: Tornado warning now in effect in Tarrant and Johnson counties.
Tornadoes have touched down in Pecan Plantation (a residential town near Granbury) and northeast of Decatur.
Update at 8 p.m., by Tristan Hallman: NWS reporting baseball-sized hail in Granbury not far from the town’s high school.
Update at 7:43 p.m. by Tristan Hallman: A tornado has been spotted developing in Hood County near Lake Granbury, the National Weather Service reports. Granbury is in the storm’s path.
Update at 7:34 p.m., by Tristan Hallman: And then there were fewer: Hamilton, Mills, Montague, Parker and Wise counties are still under tornado warnings. Out is Palo Pinto.
Update at 7:27 p.m., by Tristan Hallman: Two tornadoes have been confirmed in Parker County, the National Weather Service reports. The larger of the two tornadoes could cross Interstate 20 around mile marker 409.
Update at 7:10 p.m., by Tristan Hallman: Comanche and Jack counties are no longer under tornado warnings.
But Hamilton, Mills, Montague, Palo Pinto, Parker and Wise counties still are.
Update at 7 p.m., by Tristan Hallman: Hail larger than golfballs is being reported in Millsap, located in Parker County.
Update at 6:30 p.m. by Tristan Hallman: Watches are quickly becoming warnings in some places. Comanche, Hamilton, Jack, Mills, Montague, Palo Pinto, Parker and Wise counties are all under tornado warnings.
There are also reports of hail pelting Mineral Wells.
Update at 6:05 p.m. by Robert Wilonsky: Strong-to-severe storms continue to gather steam and form into a line as they move east, and so the National Weather Service has issued a Tornado Watch for most of North Texas — including Dallas
(Excerpt) Read more at thescoopblog.dallasnews.com ...
Moving at 15 mph it’s really chewing something up. We don’t often get big ones here in NC and even when we do they’re moving through more rapidly.
That is very slow... a lot of chewing going on
New circulation reported at Hampton Road and I-30, heading east-north-east...
Pat my bottom?
Haven’t seen you in a while.
Sirens going off now in University Park. We are basically about a 1/2 mile west of 75 and Lovers Lane, just north of SMU.
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
945 PM CDT WED MAY 15 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN ELLIS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
NORTH CENTRAL HILL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
SOUTHEASTERN JOHNSON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT
* AT 944 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A HISTORY OF PRODUCING
TORNADOES WAS 5 MILES SOUTH OF KEENE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THIS
STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGE IN HOOD COUNTY AND IN
CLEBURNE. THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL SERIOUS INJURIES REPORTED FROM
WHAT WAS LIKELY STRONG TORNADO DAMAGE. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF
THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY!
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
COVINGTON AROUND 955 PM CDT...
ALVARADO AROUND 1010 PM CDT...
GRANDVIEW AROUND 1020 PM CDT...
MAYPEARL AROUND 1030 PM CDT...
THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATES...
I-35W BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 6 AND 32...
I-35E BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 371 AND 380.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Sirens going off in downtown Dallas....hail in red oak right now....siren alert just went off
TWC just showed a 5” diameter hail!!
Circulation is really tightening up east southeast of Cleburne
New warning near Cleburne.
Stay safe...prayers up.
Sirens going off in Farmers Branch, too. Don't know why. Haven't seen any warnings for this area.
Mile wide, 15 mph, is my math wrong, thinking you’d have to live through four minutes in that? Just the thought turns my stomach.
Stay safe, Ches.
Tornado warning up for Ellis til 10:15. Red Oak, Ovilla, Glenn Heights, Waxahachie.
That is torture!
AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!
EEEEEEEAKERRRRR!!!!!!
(stop that! I mean it!)
:-)
***hug!!!***
I heard reports of grapefruit sized hail earlier today in Hood County. That's killer hail.
Report in when you can.
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