Severe Weather Outbreak - 3/2/2012

**American Patriot** · April 3rd, 2012, 18:57

Trying to get radar back, but it's pretty busy now.

**American Patriot** · April 3rd, 2012, 18:59

**American Patriot** · April 3rd, 2012, 19:01

Celburn was the name I kept hearing.

Flying J truck stop was slapped hard. Trucks all over the place.

**American Patriot** · April 3rd, 2012, 19:02

Mesquite Tx, around I-635(?) ON THE GROUND

**American Patriot** · April 3rd, 2012, 19:03

At Interstate 30, sorry, not 635.

**American Patriot** · April 3rd, 2012, 19:12

Watching radar atm.... I'm seeing a big hook echo directly south of Dallas... this is showing the last snapshot at 2:03 local time there. It's 2:11 now. I would think this is moved NE already. Looks like about a 20 mph track.

Wind speeds are approaching 50 knots (and I'm looking at storm relative, so I'm seeing 50 knots in both directions, major, major rotation!)

**American Patriot** · April 3rd, 2012, 19:15

Garland in the path of a twister now... NE Dallas Co.

**American Patriot** · April 3rd, 2012, 19:28

All Flights into and out of DFW are shut down. Nothing in, nothing out.

Major weather "event" ongoing there.

**American Patriot** · April 3rd, 2012, 19:29

I would HATE to be stuck on a flight having to circle the area now. Yuk. Double yuk. Double Yak...

Been there, yakked before. lol

**Malsua** · April 3rd, 2012, 20:25

Planes don't circle much any more. It used to be almost every flight, now it's almost never. They essentially reserve a landing before you take off and if you get into the air and they think that your slot will be closed, they divert you hundreds of miles before you get into the airspace.

**Ryan Ruck** · April 4th, 2012, 04:44

If you need a good interactive weather radar, check out tornadovideos.net. That's the site run by Reed Timmer. You can also watch streaming video from storm chasers in the field.