mike honcho
Knuckleheads
Hope you 2 are ok.Looks like those tornadoes are close.
Maj and Mag
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mike honcho
Knuckleheads
And Blue too.Looks like they hitting Arlington too.
blue92
Team Owner
Raining buckets right now tornados have bypassed Mansfield and my Arlington location.
mike honcho
Knuckleheads
They went on each side of me.Got a little hail and rain but that's about it.
I think Mag and Maj are OK. We're still waiting for the line of storms down here. Sure wish it would get here --- I HATE storms that come in the night.
Everything is good around me. Everything started south and went east of us towards Arlington and then on to the northeast.
Thanks for checking on me!
Thanks for checking on me!
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fastfordfan
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buckaroo
Here kitty, kitty, kitty
Wow, saw a video from a helicopter that showed semi trailers hurled into the air and swirled around. Looked like something you would see in a movie. And they say it wasn't as powerful at those that hit Alabama last year. Having lived in tornado alley for nearly 20 years, I'm still awed by the power and violence these storms can cause. Hope all are okay.
Heavy rain, lightning and small hail have just hit. Dogs are in mom's doghouse. LOL
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Guido
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I have to drop my rig at TMS and pick up a rental car to go home. But with all that was going on, I decided to take a night in Abilene and come on to Ft Worth in the morning.
mike honcho
Knuckleheads
Supposed to be nice and sunny tomorrow Guido.
Buck that is a wild video.Schneider Truck Lines lost ALOT of trucks and trailers today.That was 1 of their terminals that got hit.
I've had a headache since 12AM, and I still have it.
Drove through the damage zone on the way home since it was only a mile out of the way. Amazing they even let me in. Looked like something from WWII. The helicopters aren't showing the worst of it. Probably got good reason.
Tornado went across Kennedale/Texas Raceway. no track structure damage, but wiped out the ticket office and ripped a majority of the doors off the backside of some occupied pit stalls. No reported rig/car damage. Flattened a mobile home park about a mile NE of the track, probably 15 or 20 trailers there. In the triangle of 287 and I-20, absolute mess. Some of the roads were impassible.
Lots of small damage north of the ballparks as well. Legends way was impassible for a good while.
http://www.theshorthorn.com/index.p...er-submitted-footage-from-the-tornadoes-video
http://www.theshorthorn.com/index.p...iendly-campus-tour-turns-into-seeking-shelter
http://www.theshorthorn.com/index.p...eek-row-residents-take-shelter-from-tornadoes
http://www.theshorthorn.com/index.p...tch-tornado-warning-issued-for-tarrant-county
I have a mobile HAM radio, so I had the spotters in my ear starting at noon, expecting the storm. When the first report of a tornado on the ground in joshua came over the waves, I went down to the newsroom, and basically organized our online team, the reporters, and photographers. I said "Here's the conditions, here's what's going to happen, here's where it's going to happen."
From there, I went to the 6th floor of Nedderman Hall- our tallest south-south-west facing building that I could get a visual from. I followed the storm track over the HAM radio until it hit the 287/I-20 interchange. That's when arlington metro and UTA police sounded all citywide sirens. Campus police went to all buildings on campus, and wiped us from the top down.
I went back to the newsroom, and pulled up the Tarrant County RACES/ARES online broadcast scanner, while we had CBS 11 on the TV. We also had the live twitter feed going on our homepage. What we did, was I had headphones on with the spotter stream, and I was giving updates to our online team for the web page feed. In a sense, we were getting the news out, on average, about 1 minute before CBS was.
We had a good 100-150 people in our office, sheltered up. When CBS started concentrating on the dallas county storms, I started giving out more details from the RACES/ARES stream, as it got closer to campus. It tracked from the 287/20 interchange, across pantego and dalworthington gardens on the ground, then lifted and crossed bowen at pioneer/303, over the west side of campus, one official report said it crossed the division/cooper intersection, went over to cowboys stadium/rangers ballpark, and set down on the other side of them, picked back up over six flags, then went north to DFW airport.
After the storm had cleared campus, an all-clear order was given. All of us newsies looked at eachother, I looked at the radar time lapse, and said "No f**king way in hell".
Alas, they order a reporter to go get interviews. So I volunteer to go with her, with my radio. I take her up to the 6th floor of Nedderman again, which is conveniently where the dean's office is. So she spends 20 minutes interviewing the staff....and over the radio comes "[callsign] New developing tornado over pantego moving east north east" and the NWS immediately replies "Radar confirmed, New tornado warning for tarrant county effective immediately".
Funny thing. Arlington nor UTA sounded the sirens this time. She kept doing her interviews, I glued myself to that window.
I snapped this picture as the spotters and NWS tracked it crossing cooper at pioneer, airborne. It's hard to see, but there is actually a disorganized, rain-wrapped funnel sticking down on the left side of the image.
Drove through the damage zone on the way home since it was only a mile out of the way. Amazing they even let me in. Looked like something from WWII. The helicopters aren't showing the worst of it. Probably got good reason.
Tornado went across Kennedale/Texas Raceway. no track structure damage, but wiped out the ticket office and ripped a majority of the doors off the backside of some occupied pit stalls. No reported rig/car damage. Flattened a mobile home park about a mile NE of the track, probably 15 or 20 trailers there. In the triangle of 287 and I-20, absolute mess. Some of the roads were impassible.
Lots of small damage north of the ballparks as well. Legends way was impassible for a good while.
http://www.theshorthorn.com/index.p...er-submitted-footage-from-the-tornadoes-video
http://www.theshorthorn.com/index.p...iendly-campus-tour-turns-into-seeking-shelter
http://www.theshorthorn.com/index.p...eek-row-residents-take-shelter-from-tornadoes
http://www.theshorthorn.com/index.p...tch-tornado-warning-issued-for-tarrant-county
I have a mobile HAM radio, so I had the spotters in my ear starting at noon, expecting the storm. When the first report of a tornado on the ground in joshua came over the waves, I went down to the newsroom, and basically organized our online team, the reporters, and photographers. I said "Here's the conditions, here's what's going to happen, here's where it's going to happen."
From there, I went to the 6th floor of Nedderman Hall- our tallest south-south-west facing building that I could get a visual from. I followed the storm track over the HAM radio until it hit the 287/I-20 interchange. That's when arlington metro and UTA police sounded all citywide sirens. Campus police went to all buildings on campus, and wiped us from the top down.
I went back to the newsroom, and pulled up the Tarrant County RACES/ARES online broadcast scanner, while we had CBS 11 on the TV. We also had the live twitter feed going on our homepage. What we did, was I had headphones on with the spotter stream, and I was giving updates to our online team for the web page feed. In a sense, we were getting the news out, on average, about 1 minute before CBS was.
We had a good 100-150 people in our office, sheltered up. When CBS started concentrating on the dallas county storms, I started giving out more details from the RACES/ARES stream, as it got closer to campus. It tracked from the 287/20 interchange, across pantego and dalworthington gardens on the ground, then lifted and crossed bowen at pioneer/303, over the west side of campus, one official report said it crossed the division/cooper intersection, went over to cowboys stadium/rangers ballpark, and set down on the other side of them, picked back up over six flags, then went north to DFW airport.
After the storm had cleared campus, an all-clear order was given. All of us newsies looked at eachother, I looked at the radar time lapse, and said "No f**king way in hell".
Alas, they order a reporter to go get interviews. So I volunteer to go with her, with my radio. I take her up to the 6th floor of Nedderman again, which is conveniently where the dean's office is. So she spends 20 minutes interviewing the staff....and over the radio comes "[callsign] New developing tornado over pantego moving east north east" and the NWS immediately replies "Radar confirmed, New tornado warning for tarrant county effective immediately".
Funny thing. Arlington nor UTA sounded the sirens this time. She kept doing her interviews, I glued myself to that window.
I snapped this picture as the spotters and NWS tracked it crossing cooper at pioneer, airborne. It's hard to see, but there is actually a disorganized, rain-wrapped funnel sticking down on the left side of the image.
fenced blown dead sideways- poles bent 90 degrees where they go into concrete:
Where the ticket booth once stood:
A barn on the neighboring property:
That's the ticket booth all blown apart. The chain link fence is also bent 90 degrees where the poles go into cement.
Paddock storage front side:
Nobody knows where this came from. Didn't come from the barn next door nor any facilities on the track property:
These pipes, of unknown origin, were about 10 feet long and 6" diameter, and filled end to end with concrete, weighing the better part of 100+ pounds each.
Paddock storage again.
Sheared this door in half (back side). Lower piece was slammed into the front door.
Where the ticket booth once stood:
A barn on the neighboring property:
That's the ticket booth all blown apart. The chain link fence is also bent 90 degrees where the poles go into cement.
Paddock storage front side:
Nobody knows where this came from. Didn't come from the barn next door nor any facilities on the track property:
These pipes, of unknown origin, were about 10 feet long and 6" diameter, and filled end to end with concrete, weighing the better part of 100+ pounds each.
Paddock storage again.
Sheared this door in half (back side). Lower piece was slammed into the front door.
Great reporting, mag. And those pics! Damn. Glad you're OK.
The worst seems to be over here --- all has moved to the East. Dogs are still snoring on the floor --- it's going to be a job to get them outside.
The worst seems to be over here --- all has moved to the East. Dogs are still snoring on the floor --- it's going to be a job to get them outside.
mom had the animals in the pantry, the kennedale tornado was 2-3 miles away at it's closest.
Dad was working at a hospital in sunnyvale, had to dodge a tornado on his way home.
and I got the fun mess on campus.
And to think, we still have 4 more months of this...
also, all the cattle on the track property were accounted for. They are still picking up debris, and they've also had some track debris returned by citizens from as far away as one mile down range.
Dad was working at a hospital in sunnyvale, had to dodge a tornado on his way home.
and I got the fun mess on campus.
And to think, we still have 4 more months of this...
also, all the cattle on the track property were accounted for. They are still picking up debris, and they've also had some track debris returned by citizens from as far away as one mile down range.
Holy crap! 
Glad to hear everyone down there is safe.
work put this video together