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 ...
I have a customer in Sulphur Springs, are they under any threat from this storm track?
OMGosh. I remember one year we visited after a hail storm and all the cars in the ARlington area looked like they had been beaten with a baseball bat. This might have been after the tornado that hit Downtown Ft. Worth that year.
From earlier: Thirty-two counties in Texas and four in Oklahoma were under a tornado watch until 1 a.m. CT.
http://ktla.com/2013/05/15/report-of-mass-casualties-after-tornado-hits-hood-county-texas/
Sirens are still blowing but pretty calm at the moment compared to earlier. We’re hanging out, watching TV (channel 8). Older kid ticked he can’t watch “River Monsters” while youngest is a little scared.
Monitoring Free Republic and Twitter...
New possible Tornado moving from Cuba to Alverado only moving at 5 mph.
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
955 PM CDT WED MAY 15 2013
TXC139-217-251-160330-
/O.CON.KFWD.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-130516T0330Z/
ELLIS TX-HILL TX-JOHNSON TX-
955 PM CDT WED MAY 15 2013
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN JOHNSON...NORTH CENTRAL HILL AND SOUTHWESTERN ELLIS
COUNTIES...
AT 953 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS AND DOPPLER RADAR OBSERVED A TORNADO.
THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KEENE...MOVING EAST AT
5 MPH. THIS TORNADO WAS OBSERVED ON FARM TO MARKET 4 NEAR 136.
THIS IS ALMOST DIRECTLY IN BETWEEN CLEBURNE AND GRANDVIEW. THIS IS
AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TORNADO...IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...TAKE COVER
IMMEDIATELY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE! THIS IS THE SAME STORM THAT HAS
CAUSED SERIOUS INJURIES IN HOOD COUNTY AND AROUND CLEBURNE.
THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
GRANDVIEW...ALVARADO AND VENUS 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 381.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Sounds really bad in Granbury on scanner. Setting up red,yellow and black triage. Fatalities not being reported in media yet..but scanner has deaths.
That may have been the big hail storm of 2011. Darn near every roof in a four county area was replaced here. Thousands upon thousands of cars were damaged. My truck still bears the scars of that storm.
Thanks for the update. I know you will stay safe so I won’t say it again.
Correction, heading east from Cuba to south of Alverado.
Sulpher Springs is clear at the moment, but the night is young.
They MAY be in the path of the Dallas supercell if it can hold itself together...it is probably ~ 1-2 hours west/southwest of Sulphur Springs.
Good to hear. Hopefully the worst has passed for your area.
Tell your kid that River Monsters repeats over and over. He won't miss anything :-)
I’m just a bit north of Dallas proper. Looks like most of the first wave is going to just miss me. No ideas about the second one. Waiting and watching.
yep, the hubby and I are staying up late watching the news. So far we are all good here in Coppell(Dallas County), but sad for our neighbors in the Dallas area.
Not good.
Good to hear that you both are safe...praying for the less fortunate.
Dallas Zoo area shows dark red on radar, now.
(CNN) -- Several people were killed and 10 were injured Wednesday night when a possible tornado hit Granbury, Texas, city officials said.
Kathy Jividen, a spokeswoman for the Hood County, Texas, sheriff's office said there were "multiple fatalities" in the wake of the storm.
Hood County Judge Darrell Cockerham said there were reports of homes being flattened with people inside.
City officials were sending school buses to affected neighborhoods to help with evacuations.
The National Weather Service warned that a mile-wide tornado reported by spotters had shifted its track and was moving "right at the city of Cleburne," a community of about 15,000 people in north Texas.
"If you are in its path ... take cover immediately to protect your life," the weather service alert said.
The National Weather Service also said 32 counties in Texas and four in Oklahoma were under a tornado watch until 1 a.m. CT.
Granbury is about 40 miles southwest of Fort Worth.
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