It looks like we're about to get socked...
NWS just issued our county (Collin county) the Tornado Warning below. There's a very large bow echo headed this way with 2.5" hail, 80+ mph winds, and several tornado spin-ups along the leading edge. TV news is reporting power flashes and debris.
TORNADO WARNING.
TXC085-113-121-397-439-110045-
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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
643 PM CDT WED JUN 10 2009
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
COLLIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
NORTHERN DALLAS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
SOUTHEASTERN DENTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
ROCKWALL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
NORTHEASTERN TARRANT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
* UNTIL 745 PM CDT
* AT 643 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS AND DOPPLER RADAR OBSERVED A TORNADO
NEAR FLOWER MOUND...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
COPPELL...HIGHLAND VILLAGE...HICKORY CREEK AND LAKE DALLAS BY 650
PM CDT...
LEWISVILLE...LAKE LEWISVILLE AND LAKEWOOD VILLAGE BY 655 PM CDT...
HEBRON...CARROLLTON AND THE COLONY BY 700 PM CDT...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO AN INTERIOR BATHROOM...CLOSET...OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDING. COVER YOURSELF WITH BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR A
MATTRESS FOR PROTECTION.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 3304 9628 3283 9630 3283 9652 3292 9723
3308 9724 3335 9629
TIME...MOT...LOC 2343Z 264DEG 44KT 3300 9713
About to get it in N. Texas
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Re: About to get it in N. Texas
Hopefully it won't be like they anticipate.... 
Re: About to get it in N. Texas
Thankfully it looks like the tornado itself is moving south of us, right now it's crossing from Lewisville into Plano. But we will still likely get the extreme straight-line winds and some torrential rain. The cars have both been put in the garage, and flashlight, blankets and weather radio are in the bathroom under the stairway just in case!
Re: About to get it in N. Texas
We did get hit pretty hard. The sirens went off, and the wind started shaking the house so we took cover in the downstairs bathroom. The power went off, and it's just now come back on after being off for 2 1/4 hours. Luckily no damage at our house.
My parents got hit even harder. They live in Flower Mound, and were eating dinner at a restaurant in Lewisville. But they did not know how bad it was getting. When they left the restaurant, they said there was no rain at all, but the sky was BLACK and the clouds were really low-hanging. They started driving home, and coming down the street towards them was a wall of dust, dirt, paper, and other light debris. After getting hit by that, it started to pour down rain so hard they could barely see to drive. Then the wind was shaking the car so hard they stopped at an Albertson's grocery store to take cover. Then their car almost got nailed by a shopping cart that was zooming through the parking lot at about 40 mph in the wind! And the wind made my dad stumble and skin his knee when they were running into the store. When they got in, the customers and employees that were there had already taken cover in the walk-in freezer so there was no more room. They didn't think it was going to be safe to stay in the store with that type of roof, but by then it was already winding down. So they drove home, and said at least half the trees along the way had large limbs down and the first house coming into their neighborhood had the fence blown down.
Looking at the local news stations, it looks like there was quite a bit of minor-moderate damage all over the north metroplex. Fences, trees, chimneys, light poles, grain silos, semi trucks blown off the road, etc. Here's a photo of the storm as it looked coming into Denton that I found on the channel 8 website:
My parents got hit even harder. They live in Flower Mound, and were eating dinner at a restaurant in Lewisville. But they did not know how bad it was getting. When they left the restaurant, they said there was no rain at all, but the sky was BLACK and the clouds were really low-hanging. They started driving home, and coming down the street towards them was a wall of dust, dirt, paper, and other light debris. After getting hit by that, it started to pour down rain so hard they could barely see to drive. Then the wind was shaking the car so hard they stopped at an Albertson's grocery store to take cover. Then their car almost got nailed by a shopping cart that was zooming through the parking lot at about 40 mph in the wind! And the wind made my dad stumble and skin his knee when they were running into the store. When they got in, the customers and employees that were there had already taken cover in the walk-in freezer so there was no more room. They didn't think it was going to be safe to stay in the store with that type of roof, but by then it was already winding down. So they drove home, and said at least half the trees along the way had large limbs down and the first house coming into their neighborhood had the fence blown down.
Looking at the local news stations, it looks like there was quite a bit of minor-moderate damage all over the north metroplex. Fences, trees, chimneys, light poles, grain silos, semi trucks blown off the road, etc. Here's a photo of the storm as it looked coming into Denton that I found on the channel 8 website:
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Re: About to get it in N. Texas
Looks/sounds like quite a storm! Good to hear you came through it OK.
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Re: About to get it in N. Texas
The photo below was taken at my parent's next-door neighbor's house. A large tree was stripped of its branches. One of the large branches landed on the corner of the roof and caved it in. 
It broke some water pipes inside the wall, too.
There was another round of severe storms overnight and this morning, and some parts of Dallas have had over 10" of rain which is causing flooding issues. It looks like there is more of the same in store for us, too. Here is today's HWO:
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
621 AM CDT THU JUN 11 2009
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-121200-
MONTAGUE-COOKE-GRAYSON-FANNIN-LAMAR-YOUNG-JACK-WISE-DENTON-COLLIN-
HUNT-DELTA-HOPKINS-STEPHENS-PALO PINTO-PARKER-TARRANT-DALLAS-
ROCKWALL-KAUFMAN-VAN ZANDT-RAINS-EASTLAND-ERATH-HOOD-SOMERVELL-
JOHNSON-ELLIS-HENDERSON-COMANCHE-MILLS-HAMILTON-BOSQUE-HILL-NAVARRO-
FREESTONE-ANDERSON-LAMPASAS-CORYELL-BELL-MCLENNAN-FALLS-LIMESTONE-
LEON-MILAM-ROBERTSON-
621 AM CDT THU JUN 11 2009
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.
.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.
THERE CONTINUES TO BE A CHANCE FOR SEVERE STORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT
WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND FLASH FLOOD THE MAIN
THREATS. AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE. ANOTHER LINE OF
STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS MAY DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.
A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY IN
THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE POSSIBLE
WITH ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP.
HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL REACH THE TRIPLE DIGITS IN SCATTERED
LOCATIONS BEGINNING THIS WEEKEND AND CONTINUING THROUGH THE WEEK.
HEAT INDEX VALUES AT TIMES MAY REACH AS HIGH AS 105 TO 110 DEGREES.
.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
$$
82/JLD
It broke some water pipes inside the wall, too.There was another round of severe storms overnight and this morning, and some parts of Dallas have had over 10" of rain which is causing flooding issues. It looks like there is more of the same in store for us, too. Here is today's HWO:
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
621 AM CDT THU JUN 11 2009
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-121200-
MONTAGUE-COOKE-GRAYSON-FANNIN-LAMAR-YOUNG-JACK-WISE-DENTON-COLLIN-
HUNT-DELTA-HOPKINS-STEPHENS-PALO PINTO-PARKER-TARRANT-DALLAS-
ROCKWALL-KAUFMAN-VAN ZANDT-RAINS-EASTLAND-ERATH-HOOD-SOMERVELL-
JOHNSON-ELLIS-HENDERSON-COMANCHE-MILLS-HAMILTON-BOSQUE-HILL-NAVARRO-
FREESTONE-ANDERSON-LAMPASAS-CORYELL-BELL-MCLENNAN-FALLS-LIMESTONE-
LEON-MILAM-ROBERTSON-
621 AM CDT THU JUN 11 2009
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.
.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.
THERE CONTINUES TO BE A CHANCE FOR SEVERE STORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT
WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND FLASH FLOOD THE MAIN
THREATS. AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE. ANOTHER LINE OF
STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS MAY DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.
A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY IN
THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE POSSIBLE
WITH ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP.
HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL REACH THE TRIPLE DIGITS IN SCATTERED
LOCATIONS BEGINNING THIS WEEKEND AND CONTINUING THROUGH THE WEEK.
HEAT INDEX VALUES AT TIMES MAY REACH AS HIGH AS 105 TO 110 DEGREES.
.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
$$
82/JLD
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