Dangerous Tornado Situation Setting Up Over Texas
Posted by Jeff Gammons on 13 Apr 2007 at 4:10 pm
Tagged as: Current Severe WX, Current National
A very dangerous situation is setting up over parts of northern Texas and southern Okalahoma right now. The moderate risk is being upgraded to a high risk, and the SPC just issued a PDS tornado watch for the area. There currently is a very impressive possible tornadic Supercells moving just south of the town of Seymour, Texas, where they are likely receiving baseball hail at this time. The storm will soon be threatening Witchta Falls, Texas along the Red River Valley in the next hour.
Still trying to get any word from Storm Chasers on that storm. It looks to be a long night along the Red River Valley of Texas and Oklahoma. A severe weather and tornado outbreak just about to get underway on this Friday the 13th, 2007.
Stay tuned for further updates…
(Related Post: Chaser Capture Seymour Texas Tornado Video)
Update: 6:57pm et:
Storm Chasers Tony Laubach, Amos Magliocco and Eric Nguyen are reporting they intercepted a large wedge tornado 3 miles southeast of Seymour, TX at 2:40pm central time this afternoon. This was the impressive hook echo Supercell on radar several hours ago. You can see a excellent photo of the Seymour, Texas Wedge Tornado on Tonys Blog. I’m trying to get more details at this time.
Update: 7:23pm et:
Currently -reports of a developing and possible tornado moving through metro Dallas / Forth Worth, Texas. Reports of a tornado on the ground just north of Downtown Ft Worth, Texas moving eastward. Tornado confirmed on the ground.
Update: 7:56pm et:
Breaking - Tornado Moving Into Metro Dallas / Forth, Texas
Reports from storm spotters and local police, that a tornado is on the ground at this time in the Ft Worth, Texas area. Reports of severe building damaging are starting to come in. This is a dangerous situation for folks living in and driving during rush hour in the Metro area of Dallas Ft Worth. More reports of damage coming in from just north of downtown Ft Worth.
The Tornadic Supercells is now heading into Dallas County and nearing the city of Dallas. Very large hail is also falling in the metro area near the airport. This is such a bad situation for the metro area.
Tornado confirmed and baseball hail falling in a major metro area at this time.
Update: 9:08pm et:
Video and reports coming in from Ft Worth, Texas area show tornadic damage and severe large hail damage to the metro area. Several tornado photographs of the tornado on the ground are moving around the net at this time.
New Tornado Video:
Also to follow up on the wedge tornado captured by Storm Chasers 3 miles southeast of Seymour, Texas, here is some video coming in over the net from Tony Laubach. Not sure how long this videp clip will remain at this web adress as it will likely get swamped with traffic soon. Great Video Tony! Seymour Texas Wedge Tornado Video Clip (Credit Tony Laubach)
Related Post:
Storm Chasers Capture Seymour, Texas Tornado Video - update 4/14/07
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Very interesting to see on radar. I’m going to be leaving work soon, and heading home to arm chair chase.
I just hope our friend, whom we can’t disclose for previously discussed reasons, can chase this one with full disclosure. It really must be hard to catch such excellent storms and not say word one about it.
From what I heard he did well today.
I hope he stops by for a comment later.
I’ve got chills… It is so amazing to see the real life depiction of what I have watched on radar, so amazing!
I hate hearing about Metro Dallas/Fort Worth… I have heard one reported death at this point in Fort Worth. Never good to hear about these storms hitting populated areas.
Great report, Jeff!
Glad to see that large wedge that was on the ground for awhile was over open land.
As we get into the overnight hours, hope the tornado threat relaxes some. Another big day tomorrow further east.
Looks to be settling down now… hopefully, it stays settled. It was very good that the wedge was over open land. Great video that Tony got!
http://stormvideographer.com/blog/2007/04/14/storm-chasers-captures-seymour-tx-tornado-video/