Yeah, I'm not as worried down here in Dallas, but it is interesting how fast they fire up. In the last 10 minutes I've watched the southern edge of the storm line jump from west of Denton to Weatherford (about 50 miles along the line from northeast to southwest.) Looks like that could soon extend down to Stephenville or even Goldwaithe.
But if someone was planning to go to bed with the windows open, they may get a wet surprise. And run of the mill here in Spring can bring some nasty straight-line winds. They were getting 55mph in the Panhandle earlier today.
Darn. Weather service just put out a Tornado Watch for the DFW area:
Tornado Watch
WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATION FOR WATCH 80
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1157 PM CST SUN MAR 12 2006
TXC085-113-119-147-223-231-257-277-379-397-439-131200-
/O.NEW.KFWD.TO.A.0080.060313T0557Z-060313T1200Z/
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH 80 IN
EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM CST MONDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS
IN TEXAS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 11 COUNTIES
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
COLLIN DALLAS FANNIN
HUNT KAUFMAN ROCKWALL
TARRANT
IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
DELTA HOPKINS LAMAR
RAINS
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...ARLINGTON...BONHAM...COMMERCE...
COOPER...DALLAS...EAST TAWAKONI...EMORY...FORNEY...FORT WORTH...
GREENVILLE...KAUFMAN...PARIS...PLANO...POINT...ROCKWALL...
SULPHUR SPRINGS AND TERRELL.
Watching the area... definately looks like Dallas will get some action, storms are popping pretty well west of Tarrant CTY. Fortunately, most of the energy is well north, and you are removed from the daytime heating by several hours.
I lived in Rockwall for 4 yrs... I miss those TX storms when spring comes around.