This just came across email at UNT, issued by the National Weather Service at 2:00pm:
200 PM CDT TUE APR 24 2007
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 230 PM CDT
FOR DENTON COUNTY...
AT 200 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
DENTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
KRUGERVILLE AND AUBREY BY 205 PM CDT...
RAY ROBERTS PARK ISLE DU BOIS BY 210 PM CDT...
HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS STREETS...DITCHES AND
UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY
MAY BE WASHED OUT.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING
FOR NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS.
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Only to be followed by this one that was issued at 2:10pm:
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
210 PM CDT TUE APR 24 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN DENTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
* UNTIL 300 PM CDT
* AT 210 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR OAK POINT...OR ABOUT NEAR LAKE DALLAS...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
KRUGERVILLE BY 215 PM CDT...
AUBREY BY 220 PM CDT...
PILOT POINT BY 235 PM CDT...
EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES FOR A STORM SHELTER OR PERMANENT BUILDING. IF
NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH AND COVER
YOUR HEAD.
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quarter-size hail, floods, tornadoes, . . . aaaah, springtime in Texas. It must be time for the Byron Nelson Golf Classic.
1 comment:
Hi Theresa,
We had 5.36 inches of rain in the city of Denton yesterday. There was flooding and streets in town were closed off. There was even more rain out in the county.
Dana :-)
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