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I now know that I live by the Jeffcoats lol

My coworker shares the same alley as the Jeffcoats. Hope all their houses make it through okay.

They're now saying Forney High School was hit. You have to hope school was released at normal time, instead of them holding the kids.

Here's one of them.

Crazy pictures in here.

Hope everyone is ok.

Wow. Is that really one of the Dallas tornadoes? Huge.

Here's some video of the Tornado that hit Forney. Looks like a strong F3 to me.

Probably a strong F1 or a weak F2. BTW, the Storm Prediction Center and the local NWS got caught with their pants down on this tornado outbreak. The SPC had northern Texas in a slight risk of severe weather for today, with the biggest threat being hail and strong winds. They failed to take into account an old frontal boundary that extended from just west of Ft Worth to near Monroe Louisiana. The frontal boundary served as an axis for shear. When the dryline-upper energy approached from the west, the old frontal boundary provided the directional shear to make some of the storms tornadic.

Here's a pic taken from near Royce City this afternoon.

Here's some good amateur video of the Tornado as it was crossing I-20.

One in the area today was thought of by the NWS as a possible F2. Possible?

Yeah, on the video linked below, you can see what happens when a mile wide maxi-wedge tornado with 250+mph winds comes through your neighborhood. Scroll to the 5 minute mark. That is where the F5 damage begins. The rubble you're looking at used to be a neighborhood of well built brick homes. Even more amazing, is that nearly all of the foliage in the area is gone. The foliage in the Joplin area is similiar to that of east Texas, very thick.