Just checking in with everyone - this weather is crazy, looks like tornadoes rocked TX today around Dallas and Alabama on Christmas. Hope all is well - chime in when you have time and be safe!

Yeah, they hit the Dallas area last night with some people killed. This morning nothing but rain and I've gotten about 1.5 inches here and at Bowie. I'll find out what happened in a little while. Nothing but "Paid Program" on local TV stations at this time. Gonna be cold and messy all week.

TJ, I won't lie, it was a smidge tense here last night, and today's forecast doesn't look any better.

DD1, there were 8 death's in Garland just a couple of miles from our in-town house last night.

I too hope everyone's ok.

Yeah I saw that. Looks like our pleasantly warm weather has ended. Cold, windy and wet for the week.

I was returning from the property last night right before it hit. As I drove closer to Dallas the weather continued by the minute to get worse. When I passed by where the Pond Boss conference was about 11 months ago I was looking at weather radar on my phone and I decided to U-turn at I-30/Bass Pro Drive. I am so glad I followed my gut and turned around on the freeway because I was heading straight into the path of the tornado. I drove east all the way back out to Royce City, Texas and rode out the storm in a McDonalds parking lot. A co-worker's apt was badly damaged and he had to be evacuated. Another co-worker and close friend has been unable to get to his house at Zion Road/I-30 due to neighborhood damage and spent the night at a hotel praying his house made it. This morning he still can't get to his house.

This picture was taken from "The Rockwall Harbor" where the Pond Boss Conference was held a little less than a year ago. The bridge where all the lights are is about where I decided to turn around minutes earlier. I think this photo has had the lighting enhanced because it was much darker as these events unfolded last night.

Wow that thing is a monster! Any idea yet what it was on the F scale yet? So sorry for the folks in it's path. :-(

Glad you had the smarts to get out of the way!

Wowzers!

My son and his family, who live in Edmond OK, had their Christmas a little disrupted by this. Everyone is fine, but their family get-together with his in-laws wasn't what they were planning. My son's brother-in-law and sister-in-law live in Amarillo. They decided not to travel because of the blizzard. The few relatives who did travel up and down the I-35 corridor from Omaha to south of DFW were still all at my son's house this morning. My son at least has a well equipped 12-person tornado shelter under the garage floor.

I sure don't envy any of you in the area from Arizona through Mississippi, and up into Indiana.

We've got crazy crazy weather here, but ours is at least not dangerous - yet! I'm about to take my flyrod out to see if I can entice an HSB in for dinner. It hit 70 degrees here yesterday. It is currently 74 degrees, and will probably get warmer as the day goes on.

I should have already plowed snow off the driveway several times, and I should have gone through at least one rack of firewood for my workshop. The woodracks are still mostly full. My lawn needs mowing instead!

Stay safe!

Up here in northern Indiana we haven't seen any tornadoes like that in a long long time. But we did have 27 in one day back in 74' and a tremor the same day! And of course Easter Sunday in 65' was bad but I was living overseas then.

These two on Easter Sunday seemed to be following the highway from west to east. They totally wiped out a trailer court and did a lot more damage. Another photo I saw shows cars driving right toward them which makes no sense.

Anyone hear if it was close to TGW1 (Tracy) and family? It sure came close to some friends in Wylie. Some crazy weather patterns out there and for next few days. Sitting here watching football and listening to claps of thunder.

Heard it was an F4 classification.

Hope Tracy is O.K.!

Tracy posted this morning, so I assume all's well. In fact, I'm not sure all this has even gotten to him yet.

This weather event is incredible. It's pounding us with up to 1.6" of rain an hour, and it runs all the way up by Sunil in PA. It's just a massive system that really got dangerous when a front from New Mexico hit wet Gulf air coming up from South TX. They collided around Dallas, and chaos ensued. If you blow up Wundermap right now, you can see the snow being pulled north from the push of the Gulf system.

Last time I checked, our big puddle had finally stabilized at 5" over the emergency spillway. If all we lost out of all of this was fish, then we were blessed.

the light wasnt enhanced, it was a video and that is a still frame when a transformer popped lighting it up so you could see it

They were showing the video on the news last night and it was pretty much black, where you couldnt see anything except for when the transformers exploded which was relatively frequent, looked like lightning but was coming from the ground.


i live less than 10 miles from there but i havent gotten out to look around. Everything was fine here in wylie and its been raining all night/day.

my mason jar on the back porch looks like about 5 " of rain

brian

I'm not all that far from Sunil, and especially where his pond is located. I think his pond area had heavy snow early last week.

They at least changed the forecast sometime today. We were in the "nasty ice storm" path. They moved it a little bit north so we should be OK, with just lots of rain, and just above freezing.

Oh well, that is why we installed a whole-house propane generator a number of years ago.

Stay safe.

They changed our forecast from winter storm watch to warning. Ice and sleet with wind gusts to 55 for tomorrow then rain. Power lines are all above ground in this part of the county with lots of trees around them. Could get interesting but like with Catmando, that is why I installed the whole-house backup generator when I built this place.

27 twisters in one day?
wow Cecil

I think the Dallas area got about a dozen yesterday. So far about a dozen dead.

NWS

My sis says there were 4 tornados between her place north of Rushville and Greensburg, Indiana last week.

I think so. The following link says it was a super record outbreak that produced a total of 148 tornadoes over several states with 30 F4 to F5's. I was on the late bus after track, and a trailer court we stopped at got wiped out a few minutes after we left. My bus driver saw a bale of hay high above like it was a piece of paper after he dropped us all off. We had no idea what was going on until later. I do remember seeing lightning in all four directions, which I thought was odd. I later read in a weather textbook that is a sign of impending very severe weather.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_Super_Outbreak

That double twister was just outside of Dunlap, south of Elkhart, Indiana on US 33. It was part of the Palm Sunday bunch of Tornados.

I was 1/8 mile from the center of the tornado that started in Starke County, Indiana in the Palm Sunday Tornado outbreak of 1965. The house is on the SW side of Koontz Lake.

Fatih and Lovinlivin was there, if they read this, the tornado went right down the center of the lake from left to right as you face the water.

We r doing fine this morning, had a tornado north of Marshall yesterday afternoon, I left one of the places as the storm approached, and I have not checked on my places this morning. Both are around 15 mi north of Marshall. I hope everyone is good to go.

Tracy

A friend of mine who lives in Dallas, said the tornado was an F-4 and yesterday afternoon he said 11 were killed in the storm and they were looking for more. He said it was coming toward him and got pretty close to their home when the F-4 turned east and missed their home. I was happy for him. And Zep, I remember the view of the bridge @ the PBC.

Tracy

TWC said this morning that 8 were killed on the highway, and 3 more were found in a field, but they didn't say where those 3 were from.

IIRC total deaths from that storm is at 25 now, but only 11 in the Garland area.

I heard that the tornado was 550 yards wide and was on the ground for 13 miles, bouncing around in strength between F3 and F4.

My encounter Sat night with Mr. Twister
(timeline verified thru my text messages)

Don't Mess With Texas!

I guess it doesn't take long for the scumbag looters to think
"hey lets go get some free stuff".

This guy means business and rightfully so.

Glad to hear you're O.K.! Close call!

I heard that about the cars. Cars are a piece of cake to lift for an F4 or F5.

I can't imagine a tornado that wide although they get wider.

Zep, although my neighbor doesn't have the hair, that same video could have been shot here. As one neighbor put it, "I have a backhoe and they will never leave the property."

Crazy!