cdcollura
EF5
Sorry about the mispelling on my comment "Jerrell, TX" ... And yes, it is in terms of severity and not the setup (which is MUCH different - High shear vs high CAPE).
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Bob Schafer
EF5
Craig Maire caught 3 spin-up type tornadoes at the Sterling storm around 00z-00:30Z. He just witnessed a car hydroplaning off the road and hitting a telephone pole or something too, but reports the occupants are uninjured and the car just banged up.
Jason A.C. Brock
Tarrant and Parker counties under the gun now in Texas including much of DFW metro. Live coverage
www.wfaa.com
Better coverage on http://media.myfoxdfw.com/live/severeweather.html
as well as DFW weather blog chat IM from residents as storm happens.
www.wfaa.com
Better coverage on http://media.myfoxdfw.com/live/severeweather.html
as well as DFW weather blog chat IM from residents as storm happens.
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N. Shaw
TOR-warned storm in Fort Worth beginning to show well-defined hook. Local TV reporting funnel cloud spotted and possibly tornado on the ground.
JP Santiago
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Channel 5 in DFW reporting trained spotters seeing a wall cloud at Camp Bowie and I-30 in Fort Worth.......
EDIT: Seems that there might be two different areas of circulation in the Fort Worth storm- one straddling I-30 just west of downtown Fort Worth and another area of circulation north of Carswell Field/River Oaks area. Straight line winds causing power flashes and damage at I-35W and Heritage Trace Parkway.......
EDIT: Seems that there might be two different areas of circulation in the Fort Worth storm- one straddling I-30 just west of downtown Fort Worth and another area of circulation north of Carswell Field/River Oaks area. Straight line winds causing power flashes and damage at I-35W and Heritage Trace Parkway.......
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rdale
EF5
No denying that!
Nice squall line transitioning through NE Arkansas, I've noticed a few leading edge spinup notches but nothing has come from it.
MASSIVE cap on TAMDAR soundings out of northern Louisiana. Great veering showing up on a flight into NW Ark but looks like they did some circling on the way down so partially suspect.
Nice squall line transitioning through NE Arkansas, I've noticed a few leading edge spinup notches but nothing has come from it.
MASSIVE cap on TAMDAR soundings out of northern Louisiana. Great veering showing up on a flight into NW Ark but looks like they did some circling on the way down so partially suspect.
David Draun
EF5
Damn, look at that HP-beast of a storm west of Eagle Pass! Svr warned, and there is a nasty 75 dBz core on that thing. There's actually three of them training over the same area, it's gotta be raining gangbusters in SW Texas right now. It looks like everything went too linear too quickly today. Most of the tornadoes occured in Colorado. Congrats to all that bagged today in Kansas on the tail-end charlie. Now I have a weak mcs(messy convective snafu) threatening to bring some moderate to possibly heavy rain and maybe a little thunder overnight. Being in the cool sector sucks.
Graham Butler
EF3
Just got off the phone with David Drummond.
Approx 2.5 hours ago while he was navigating around to the storm about to go into Tarrant CO. his vehicle was struck by lightning. He described it as sounding like a cannon being fired off beside him, a massive bright light, followed by a few sparks showering down. He immediately lost all power to secondary electronics and his gauges died, flickered, and came back on. He was able to keep on driving but rerouted himself up to Weatherford to assess damage to the vehicle. As of now the only visible damage is a small burn mark to the metal anemometer support and ~80% of his fuses blown. (fuses for his chase gear and not the vehicle's fuse block) It appears that the electricity from the bolt was transfered through the extensive grounding system David has for his gear and blew most of the fuses for the grounds. David is completely fine and it appears that he will skirt by with only having to replace $10 in fuses!!!! Talk about proper installs paying off BIG time!! If he had not fused his grounds we could be talking thousands in losses for his gear.
Edit: he also lost one brake light blub
Graham Butler
http://www.darkskyproductions.com
Approx 2.5 hours ago while he was navigating around to the storm about to go into Tarrant CO. his vehicle was struck by lightning. He described it as sounding like a cannon being fired off beside him, a massive bright light, followed by a few sparks showering down. He immediately lost all power to secondary electronics and his gauges died, flickered, and came back on. He was able to keep on driving but rerouted himself up to Weatherford to assess damage to the vehicle. As of now the only visible damage is a small burn mark to the metal anemometer support and ~80% of his fuses blown. (fuses for his chase gear and not the vehicle's fuse block) It appears that the electricity from the bolt was transfered through the extensive grounding system David has for his gear and blew most of the fuses for the grounds. David is completely fine and it appears that he will skirt by with only having to replace $10 in fuses!!!! Talk about proper installs paying off BIG time!! If he had not fused his grounds we could be talking thousands in losses for his gear.
Edit: he also lost one brake light blub
Graham Butler
http://www.darkskyproductions.com
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beaudodson
EF5
A large death toll and injury count from the Eagle Pass tornado. Early reports of 40+ injured and 6+ killed. They are still searching for victims.
Aaron Kennedy
EF5
A source for news on the Eagle Pass, tornado to back up bd's post:
(7 fatalities, 40+inj)
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA042507.am.txstorms.6866666.html
Further discussion should probably migrate to a DISC thread.
(7 fatalities, 40+inj)
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA042507.am.txstorms.6866666.html
Further discussion should probably migrate to a DISC thread.
rdale
EF5
There is a link at the top of their page which says "submit storm reports" - you may want this to go in because I can't find anything about a tornado in that area anywhere...
