Spared!

slimjim · Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 7:27 pm Post subject: Spared!

Had armies of thunderstorms advance on Fort Worth and Dallas today. The last wave was impressive! A tornado touched down a couple miles West of us. Warning sirens rang out. We prepared to take cover. I watched the rotation approach. The rotating wall cloud came directly over our house but did not come in contact with the ground. I could look up directly inside the rotation. Sun was still shining through the trees. Wind got still then could hear strong gusts coming. When I was closing the door to get inside, I could feel the overpressure trying to push the door open. Blew two doors open in the house next door. We stayed in the laundry room for a couple of minutes. Then went back out to watch mother nature in action, wow. The rotation touched down again a couple of miles East of us. Hail reported up to baseball size but missed us also. Report of homes damaged just north of us. Alert for the next wave. Nothing like what happened in Joplin MO earlier this week.

gelandangan · Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 8:41 pm Post subject: Re: Spared!

Glad you are Ok Slim,
Here in Coastal area of NSW also was lashed with high wind last night, but luckily not much damages around.

Vince · Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 8:58 pm Post subject: Re: Spared!

Good to hear of your lucky escape Slim. Be safe my friend.

Like Gelan's area, we too are copping some pretty intense high winds. Very little rain, but the winds are keeping things pretty cool here.

Cheers, Vince

slimjim · Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 3:03 am Post subject: Re: Spared!

We had 2 more major thunderstorms pass after this one - a total of 4 for the day. The next one produced some large hail nearby, fortuneately not in our neighborhood. This size hail does some real damage.

Bushmaster · Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 6:46 am Post subject: Re: Spared!

Looks like a nasty season this year. Keep your eyes to the sky...

stovepipe · Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 10:59 am Post subject: Re: Spared!

Jeebus! That hail pic was nuts!

Bushmaster · Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 11:36 am Post subject: Re: Spared!

You ought to see what they do to pickup roofs..Ask me...I know.

stovepipe · Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 11:41 am Post subject: Re: Spared!

Ahhhhhh! I just got mine painted dont EVEN go there man..... Mad

Hail that size would be lethal, no doubt there. I got clobbered lunging w/ a small paint with smaller than golf ball sized stuff and my hat got creamed and man did I git some knots and almost lost my mount, paint took off...that was a long day.

I see hail comin' now? I skidaddle. I HATE hail.

Dimitri · Super Member Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 5946

Hail is fine as long as your under ground. Laughing

Dimitri

slimjim · Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 6:34 pm Post subject: Re: Spared!

Hail that size will go through the roof - even find you car in the garage and distroy it. Yep, underground is the best place to be.

inthedark · Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 8:35 pm Post subject: Re: Spared!

Awesome pic. I'm glad that you're OK.

Vince · Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 9:39 pm Post subject: Re: Spared!

That hail is just downright scary...I don't even want to imagine what would happen to someone caught out in a storm throwing them buggers down at you.

Cheers, Vince

English Mike · Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 4:26 am Post subject: Re: Spared!

I was flying back to the UK on Tuesday & somewhere around NY city we had to do a fair amount of manoeuvring to avoid storm cells that went way up past our 35,000'.
This one was huge:

stovepipe · Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 6:54 am Post subject: Re: Spared!

I'm still reelin' over that baseball sized hail. It's like the Angel's are target practicing with pea shooters.

Not nice!

You'd HAVE to be underground...what could withstand that pummeling?

I'll stick with the earthquakes and fruitcakes, thanks very much.

Bushmaster · Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 7:04 am Post subject: Re: Spared!

You say you are staying in Kali? Remember...You can see these storms coming and get out of the way. An earthquake? Well...Good luck with that...