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
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That video from Milsap had to be many hours ago. It was taken in daylight. Been dark here for hours.
Homes flattened in Granbury.
Multiple gas leaks ongoing.
I don’t understand where these storms are getting their energy from. It’s after 10:00PM now, and much cooler.
It’s been dry as a bone this spring.
Tropical Storm Alvin in the Eastern Pacific. He threw off moisture - tropical - and it’s just now getting to you. We in Austin got it last night, but we had no convective inputs like cooler N. Texas does.
A lot of gulf moisture training up into East Tx thats why.
Right you are.
It is a weird gulf fed thing, mixing in the upper atmosphere with cold air.
It wasn’t particularly warm today (about 75-77)and it is still 71 in the Dallas area at almost 10:30.
Unless, of course, it’s a hoax...which I try to not fall for but have been duped before.
Click on the video viewer...
Thank you.
No. With a mile-wide - that’s F5 - moving 15mph... expect possibly Jarrell or even Joplin kind of bad.
Channel 8 is reporting 2 fatalities.
One headed here on rear flank just went severe.
Width has nothing to do with the Fujita scale.
It is based on wind speed.
Safely through the first round. Second round moving in on us from Springtown & Boyd.
Prayers up for you sweet Buckeye.scary night!!
Yipes!
Get in the tub and pull up a blanket!
I think it is winding down.
Stay safe.
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