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 towns 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 storms 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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Think I'll join you.
It sure is. This is the best soak Farmers Branch has had in months. Thank goodness that's all we got tonight. Getting some powerful thunder and lightning right now.
TV reporting 11,000 without power in DFW.
Crap..now another coming down through Azle..huge hail core.
Someday I’ll show you a monster hailstone from May Fest ‘95.
Storm chaser on facebook posting direct from brother who is a cop in Godley and called to go to Granbury and said around 30 people missing and entire families were eating dinner and their homes completely collapsed.
Yes. That was earlier today. Seems the worst of it is now over in Grandbury, but they got hit bad. Very bad. One kid said his neighborhood is gone.
It usually means bad juju.
KDFW coverage from the Fox News site:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1155606214001/
The Jarrell twister was doing unbelievable things that nobody knew about because nothing was left. What was left had to be quickly rescued to get survivors out of flattened houses. You can’t let the public or even the rescuers know how bad it is if you need them to keep rescuing.
The next day, after the damage was known, everybody just fell apart with grief. Property owners were angry at not being able to get to their houses.. because parts of people were everywhere for miles and the rescuers themselves were psychologically falling apart.
A mile-wide slow-mover even at 175mph is destroying everything it touches. I’m praying Granbury had Angels moving them out of harm’s way.
Oh dear God!! This Granbury stuff sounds awful. My heart is breaking for these people.
Heart-breaking.
You just can’t catch a break!
Better link http://www.myfoxdfw.com/category/234333/live
no..........
Yep...creepy silence sucks on all fronts.
Thanks for that input regarding the Jurrell twister.
It’s hard I know...spent three weeks helping around Biloxi shortly after Katrina. Sometimes I still don’t believe what we did/saw there.
I freaked myself out bigtime.
Don’t say that..I feel blessed right now. Heart breaking for Granbury folks.
Abby barking now...she doesn’t like the sound of things to come...lol
I mentioned it yesterday, to a co worker.
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