Tornado Season!
 

For those of us in the "Great Plains" area it is that time of the year again. Several tornados today in SW Oklahoma. Probably many more to come.

I hear El Nino is back and that will bring worse than normal storms like that F5 tornado that hit the Oklahoma City area a few years back.

Everyone be safe during this time of year!

There were a couple of tornado warnings & watches in the north texas area today

Yep... tornado reported near the Palo Pinto/Parker County line crossing I-20. No reports of damage to property or people, but it probably tore up some scrub out there.

I remember reading in the Dallas Morning Snooze a couple of years back marking the first anniversary of the F5 tornado that ripped through central Oklahoma back in May of 1999. They overlaid the twister's path on a map of the Metroplex; it would have stretched one continuous path of destruction from southwestern Arlington and Tarrant County all the way through to near McKinney in Collin County, with the heaviest damage occurring in Irving, north and northwest Dallas and possibly Plano.

They also superimposed the path concentrating the heaviest damage in downtown Dallas and Fort Worth and the destruction would have been incredible. (Mind you, downtown Fort Worth had recently suffered through a tornado that tore up downtown.)

Severe storms I have a very healthy respect for, since I've lived off and on in 'Tornado Alley' for the past eight years. When the sirens go off I take it extremely seriously.

Tornado sirens
 

I'll never forget my first semester of school there.. it was the first Wednesday of the month, and at noon, I was sitting in class when the emergency test began.

I totally freaked out. The entire class freaked out.. apparently I wasn't the only one not from the area. Our prof seemed kind of confused... "what's going on? do we go outside or something?" hehehe.

Luckily it was only the test and not the real deal.