Can you say TORNADO?!!! - Page 4

monte · 04-13-2007

awww thats sweet thanks. It freaked me out for a short time.

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Originally Posted by Luv2Dance

Glad you guys are okay. Whew! I was stressing for you!

myhappyplace2 · 04-13-2007

Golf ball size hail, winds roaring at 70 mph, yep it was scary and loud. Been watching the weather guys on channel 8. Loooks like we are safe for the rest of the evening.

monte · 04-13-2007

I think I need to go to the liquor store

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Originally Posted by Kellyk

I've already opened DJ.

Kellyk · 04-13-2007

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Originally Posted by myhappyplace2

Golf ball size hail, winds roaring at 70 mph, yep it was scary and loud. Been watching the weather guys on channel 8. Loooks like we are safe for the rest of the evening.

Then whats that big ball of pink and purple on the west side of Fort Worth?

monte · 04-13-2007

OH shitte now I'm really heading to the liquor store

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Originally Posted by Kellyk

Then whats that big ball of pink and purple on the west side of Fort Worth?

Starfish · 04-13-2007

Hope you all are ok, my sister lives in Arlington. I hate tornado's! We get enough of them here in WI.
Stay safe even though I know you don't have basements.

tlegray · 04-13-2007

Glad to hear y'all are through the worst of it.

Is there a Texas radar (weather) map? I know we're suppose to get hit with something tonight but whatever hit y'all in Dallas is going East so it shouldn't hit me.

knapthyme · 04-13-2007

Hope the big pink and purple is gone! Too skeery!

monte · 04-13-2007

All the local channels are on the weather. It is heading east. Where are you at?

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Originally Posted by tlegray

Glad to hear y'all are through the worst of it.

Is there a Texas radar (weather) map? I know we're suppose to get hit with something tonight but whatever hit y'all in Dallas is going East so it shouldn't hit me.

tlegray · 04-13-2007

I'm in Houston. It may or may not come down this far south. Looks like it's getting ready to hit San Antonio and Austin.

Found this site: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge/radar....t=N0R&loop=yes

Seakony · 04-13-2007

Geez.... what a good disappointment weather wise. News kept showing rotation on top of us. I kept looking out but saw nothing, just some rain, pea size hail, no winds. I have seen alot worse than this was. Oh well, I guess I can put all my valuable stuff back from it's safe haven. Poor Tarrant County...they always get the worst part of a storm.

monte · 04-13-2007

dang I can't believe you didn't get winds. It was blowing quite hard in uptown. The hail looked more like golf balls.

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Originally Posted by Seakony

Geez.... what a good disappointment weather wise. News kept showing rotation on top of us. I kept looking out but saw nothing, just some rain, pea size hail, no winds. I have seen alot worse than this was. Oh well, I guess I can put all my valuable stuff back from it's safe haven. Poor Tarrant County...they always get the worst part of a storm.

roni · 04-13-2007

Holy Cow you guys

Last year in March I was at my mother's in Missouri. Big super-cell storms came through the night before I left. Spent 30 minutes in the bathroom listening to the TV talk about the tornado that was going down Nifong Road - two blocks away.

I just wanted to fly home to Kathy. Saw several semi's flipped over on I-70 on my way to the Kansas City airport the next day.,

Seakony · 04-13-2007

about 20 something years ago..maybe 30....I went to Wichta Falls right after a F5 3/4 of a mile wide plowed straight across the city. About 42 people killed. I have never seen such destruction in my life. We spent 3 days salvaging my friends brothers house and her aunts house which were both totaled and in different parts of town.
I kept expecting the high winds this evening..but got nada. I am really fascinated by high winds....I know I know....can be destructive, but a thrill just the same. I aint too crazy about hail...but seeing something bigger than a nickle is also exciting and rare.....And I still have never seen a tornado. I guess I need to join the storm chasers to see one.

Kellyk · 04-13-2007

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Originally Posted by Seakony

about 20 something years ago..maybe 30....I went to Wichta Falls right after a F5 3/4 of a mile wide plowed straight across the city. About 42 people killed. I have never seen such destruction in my life. We spent 3 days salvaging my friends brothers house and her aunts house which were both totaled and in different parts of town.
I kept expecting the high winds this evening..but got nada. I am really fascinated by high winds....I know I know....can be destructive, but a thrill just the same. I aint too crazy about hail...but seeing something bigger than a nickle is also exciting and rare.....And I still have never seen a tornado. I guess I need to join the storm chasers to see one.

You're crazy!

I remember that storm. I had relatives that lived there at that time....what a mess!

Tonight could have been a lot worse around here, but the hail was larger than golf balls. My dad is in Euless and he said it was almost baseball sized there. He's off 121 close to where one tornado hit. I'm watching all the damage done and some video that people have taken....amazing!!! Twisted metal hanging off power lines, hundred year old trees turned to firewood.

I HATE high winds. Give me lots of rain, lightening and thunder, I can even handle the hail but wind.....I'm terrifiied of it! Just ask the crew I drove back from the toobin regatta during a storm....not pretty.

04-13-2007	#55 (permalink)
tlegray life=playa Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: TX Posts: 503	I'm in Houston. It may or may not come down this far south. Looks like it's getting ready to hit San Antonio and Austin. Found this site: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge/radar....t=N0R&loop=yes Last edited by tlegray; 04-13-2007 at 09:27 PM..

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myhappyplace2 añejo Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: The big D with some other kool peeps> Posts: 2,784	Golf ball size hail, winds roaring at 70 mph, yep it was scary and loud. Been watching the weather guys on channel 8. Loooks like we are safe for the rest of the evening.

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Starfish reposado Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 1,009	Hope you all are ok, my sister lives in Arlington. I hate tornado's! We get enough of them here in WI. Stay safe even though I know you don't have basements.

04-13-2007	#52 (permalink)
tlegray life=playa Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: TX Posts: 503	Glad to hear y'all are through the worst of it. Is there a Texas radar (weather) map? I know we're suppose to get hit with something tonight but whatever hit y'all in Dallas is going East so it shouldn't hit me.

04-13-2007	#53 (permalink)
knapthyme life=playa Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Dela-Where? Posts: 669	Hope the big pink and purple is gone! Too skeery!

04-13-2007	#56 (permalink)
Seakony añejo Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: no longer in Mesquite with nothing to do Posts: 10,151	Geez.... what a good disappointment weather wise. News kept showing rotation on top of us. I kept looking out but saw nothing, just some rain, pea size hail, no winds. I have seen alot worse than this was. Oh well, I guess I can put all my valuable stuff back from it's safe haven. Poor Tarrant County...they always get the worst part of a storm.

04-13-2007	#58 (permalink)
roni Happy Curmudgeon Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Oregon Posts: 29,038	Holy Cow you guys Last year in March I was at my mother's in Missouri. Big super-cell storms came through the night before I left. Spent 30 minutes in the bathroom listening to the TV talk about the tornado that was going down Nifong Road - two blocks away. I just wanted to fly home to Kathy. Saw several semi's flipped over on I-70 on my way to the Kansas City airport the next day.,

04-13-2007	#59 (permalink)
Seakony añejo Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: no longer in Mesquite with nothing to do Posts: 10,151	about 20 something years ago..maybe 30....I went to Wichta Falls right after a F5 3/4 of a mile wide plowed straight across the city. About 42 people killed. I have never seen such destruction in my life. We spent 3 days salvaging my friends brothers house and her aunts house which were both totaled and in different parts of town. I kept expecting the high winds this evening..but got nada. I am really fascinated by high winds....I know I know....can be destructive, but a thrill just the same. I aint too crazy about hail...but seeing something bigger than a nickle is also exciting and rare.....And I still have never seen a tornado. I guess I need to join the storm chasers to see one.

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