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 ...
Heavy rain on baked soil mostly runs off but I’m sure they’ll take it however it comes, it’ll help.
Code Red text/phone call alert for Park Cities/N. Dallas - Severe Thunderstorms, large hail, heavy damaging winds and flash flooding until 10:15.
Slightly concerning part is it’s a quite a bit calmer right now than it has been...
Just heard Hood dispatch say tornado on the ground.
I remember those "calm before the storm" moments. Stay safe there.
Anything more from Granbury on damage or injuries. Lots of people I use to work with in Fort Worth live near there now.
Just heard the same...the radar base velocity on the tornado nearing Rio Vista is insane!
prayers up for those folks
Reports say that the worst has now passed through Arlington and Grand Prairie. The system is widening, and now passing over the middle of Dallas County.
Southern Johnson County still under severe weather watch. Tornados may still be possible in that area.
MILE WIDE TORNADO!!!!!!!
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
920 PM CDT WED MAY 15 2013
TXC251-160245-
/O.CON.KFWD.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-130516T0245Z/
JOHNSON TX-
920 PM CDT WED MAY 15 2013
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR SOUTHERN
JOHNSON COUNTY...
AT 919 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS AND DOPPLER RADAR OBSERVED A TORNADO.
THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF RIO VISTA...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. SPOTTERS WERE REPORTING A MILE WIDE TORNADO IN
BETWEEN CLEBURNE AND RIO VISTA. THIS IS AN INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS
TORNADO...IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY TO PROTECT
YOUR LIFE!
Hopefully, the heat island of central Dallas will steer the bad stuff around your area.
“Tornado south of Cleburne is a monster...”
News is describing it as being on the ground and a mile wide. Quiet near I35 and 820.
Thank you. Tornadoes scare me to death, wish we had a shelter here in AL. Such a helpless feeling.
Yep. The really nasty stuff went around your area tonight. Sometimes we get lucky.
BIG prayers up.
Multiple tornadoes being reported in that area right now. Saying that the cell is a mile wide.
I’m afraid that there will many fatalities...Prayers up
Watching on TWC, now. Crazy.
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