Wow. They’re showing footage of a wall cloud in Dallas and it looks really scary. If any of you Dopers are in potential peril, head for the basement. It’s pretty damn ominous.
Yep, it passed over my house (Fort Worth area) about 30 minutes ago. We had dime sized hail for about 5 minutes. I think they got it worse a little bit south of me, judging by the news reports.
I’m in TX as well. Not in immediate DFW area but later tonight we’re going to get some of what you DFW folks are getting now.
Perhaps the timing of my new nick is a little unfortunate. 
Came through here last night, Amarillo had 94mph straight winds and large hail. One of the news reports said something to the effect, “The Discovery Center was damaged when the wind blew over some concrete walls”. We’ve already had tornados this season, and snow after the tornados. Weird spring so far.
I’m in Tarrant County. I think it passed north of me, though. I was worried about my husband earlier, because he was working out at the gym in Hurst right in the middle of it, but I called and he was okay.
There’s lots of pictures of damage and stuff on the news right now, and they’ve been showing pictures of the tornado(s) that people have taken. Here are a bunch of pics from the storm. Mostly a butt-load of hail pics but there’s a few tornado pics here and there. There some more here, as well, including a good tornado shot right up front.
The tornado-producing part of the storm passed almost right over me, but fortunately the tornado had gone back up into the storm at that point. I’m seeing reports it hit the ground again east of me. What I did get was some nasty looking hail, though. I’ve never seen hail like that before, it was all shredded up and pointy, not round at all. That was about an hour ago, though, and all the hail has long since melted.
Edit: I’m in near northeast Dallas, not too far from White Rock Lake.
Just heard there are about five tornados in the smaller suburbs on the eastern side. My sister lives there, we’ll have to check up on her. They’re a few miles north of her now, so hopefully they’ll miss her.
Steven
I’m in Dallas on business at the Four Seasons. We had to huddle down in their basement while the storm passed over. Big hail.
Yikes! Is it too soon in the season for this kind of weather?
It’s a bit late, actually, here in Miss. Usually we get this type of weather in late March/early April. Looks like this particular front will be tomorrow a.m. gettting here.
From NOAA:
I live in Saginaw, northeast of Fort Worth, where we got golfball-sized hail. A neighbor down the street has plywood over one of their windows this morning. Apparently Haltom City got smashed pretty bad - the news was all over a tornato path that intersected Highway 121 and ripped up a lot of residential and business property.
It seems that only one person died last night. Which I suppose, looking at the cold numbers, is relatively good. But someone’s family lost a loved one to the weather, and it didn’t have to be that way.
I missed out on the whole thing. I was working in the basement of my school and didn’t hear the sirens. I only heard about it when cell phone service came back and my wife was finally able to get through to me. They spent a half hour huddled in the laundry room with a blanket over their heads. My 3-year-old was afraid to be left alone anywhere in the house after that.
What really scares me is that this could happen late at night when no one’s watching the news. I REALLY need to get my family one of those weather radios that turns on when the EMS system activates.
The sirens went off just as I walked out into the parking lot at work. The thought of going back inside was more distasteful than the threat of a tornado. From looking around, it was obvious he storm had already passed to the east. When I got in the truck (at least I was smart enough not to ride the 'cycle) and turned on the radio, the funnel had just touched down in Haltom City.
Stangely enough, the traffic was light going home. I stopped in Saginaw to pick up the grandaughter. There were still a few small hailstones in the grass along the way. I didn’t see any serious damage, but from the green leaves in the street, it was obvious there had been some serious hail.
I saw the pictures of the trucking yard in Haltom City on the news when I got home. The funnel did some damage but it seemed pretty localized.
One funny story: the KRLD news anchors went ‘live to the man on the scene’ and when they put the guy on the air, he stated clearly that he had just arrived on the scene and described clearly what he saw. When he finished, he went ‘back to the studio’. The twit in the studio, doing her best to sound like Dianne Sawyer, did the “One more question: can you describe how the people are reacting. They’ve been through this before; how are they feeling?”
Man on the scene, sounding exasturbated: “I just got out of the car. I haven’t talked to anyone yet.”
A gentle, but effective put-down.
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Did you just make up this word, or did you mean exasperated?
It’s just a made-up word. Sort of a combination of exasperated, frustrated, and perturbed. On re-read, it does look like a morphing that includes masturbate, doesn’t it?
And now we got about 8" of snow. I was watching TV last night until nealy 1AM, when I got ready to go to bed I thought it looked awfully light out, went to look and deep SNOW on everything. Better than tornados, glad we missed those this time, but I wasn’t really expecting this.
Yup. I was thinking that’s what you get when you spend all day playing with yourself.
Our truck caught some hail damage but no broken windows. My husband saw the swath of destruction on 121 when he was coming home last night. He said he saw houses reduced to tinders, billboards completely smashed, cars pushed off the road. He saw car windows busted out.
I have one. The city council decided to give everybody one – cheaper than installing a tornado siren.
They’re pretty cool. Battery back-up, easy to program for your area, and cheap, about $30.
There’s some comic value too, hearing the computer-generated voice pronounce some of the city names. It can’t differentiate between hard and soft g, so Badger becomes Bad-ger. 
More like, all day playing with yourself with no orgasms to show for it. :eek: 
I work out by Texas Motor Speedway and drove home on Friday, then decided to stop at a sports bar near DFW. The tornado sirens are right there. Watched the hail come down on my car, but no damage. Ended up watching the storm on tv move to Dallas County where I live.
Sick of this weather.