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Eliminatus
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In reply to HtownAg19 • 9:10p, 4/28/26
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HtownAg19 said:
Eliminatus said:
Cromagnum said:
How are some folks going to ***** about no storms, when places like Mineral Wells basically got leveled?

Weird take, as no one was *****ing. We are all concerned about MW as well.


People were calling it a dud just one page back

Jokingly, even with the tongue out emoji. Just a weird misread of the room IMO, but it's no big deal. Just thought it was a weird defensive flare up I didn't see the reason for. I'm dropping it regardless.
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9:15p, 4/28/26
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Forecasts earlier were projecting possible precip all the way up to 0200 but radar is looking clear rest of the night for me up here in northern Dallas.

Thursday and Friday looking interesting for this area as well with more rain and big temp drop.
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9:23p, 4/28/26
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With the heat and humidity in Dallas and the northern suburbs today, I could totally have seen this coming and and feeding on the environment to be massive like they thought it might be. Honestly think that is what the expertise thought would happen It could have done what it did in MW in dfw proper.


Not sure why, but we got lucky when it split and dove to the south with the bad stuff.
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5:45a, 4/29/26
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Steve McCauley with the short explanation on why things didn't materialize as expected in Dallas.
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In reply to Eliminatus • 10:10a, 4/29/26
Eliminatus said:
Forecasts earlier were projecting possible precip all the way up to 0200 but radar is looking clear rest of the night for me up here in northern Dallas.

Thursday and Friday looking interesting for this area as well with more rain and big temp drop.

A little levity....Jake is working overtime in Texas.


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10:25a, 4/29/26
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We didn't get diddly squat in The Colony, a little bummed that we didn't get the rain but very happy we didn't get the severe/damaging stuff.
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In reply to Jason_Roofer • 10:34a, 4/29/26
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Jason_Roofer said:
Eliminatus said:
Forecasts earlier were projecting possible precip all the way up to 0200 but radar is looking clear rest of the night for me up here in northern Dallas.

Thursday and Friday looking interesting for this area as well with more rain and big temp drop.

A little levity....Jake is working overtime in Texas.



insurance adjusters are going to be camping out in North Texas for months...
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11:07a, 4/29/26
South of Aledo here & it was tense for a few hours. Lots of rain & hail & got to clean some closets out.
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In reply to Aries • 2:49p, 4/29/26
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Aries said:
South of Aledo here & it was tense for a few hours. Lots of rain & hail & got to clean some closets out.


Saw some FB posts of people off of Kelly & 377 holding baseball sized hail stones. I think it basically stayed south of 1187 because my dad didn't get anything but dime sized hail on the south side of Benbrook Lake and we got pea sized hail in Benbrook.
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In reply to Corps_Ag12 • 3:36p, 4/29/26
We had I would say dime to quarter size. I'm on the south part of 5.
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3:37p, 4/29/26
How's the forecast looking for Thursday and Friday, as far as severe weather is concerned?
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3:59p, 4/29/26
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Mineral Wells tornado rated Ef-3 by National Weather service.
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In reply to FTAG 2000 • 8:50p, 4/29/26
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Mineral Wells tornado rated Ef-3 by National Weather service.


That's what they gave Cleburne in 2013, but it was very much at least a 4 by the damage, including my childhood home (pictures included)



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8:51a, 4/30/26
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Yeah, as a chaser I have a lot of issues with the tornado ratings and damage indicators. Insurance industry having a say in those has made for some odd classifications.

Even when the mobile Doppler are out, their wind speed captures are disregarded in favor of damage observed against modern building code. It's stupid.

Easier just consider a 3 or higher a major tornado.
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In reply to FTAG 2000 • 9:00a, 4/30/26
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FTAG 2000 said:
Yeah, as a chaser I have a lot of issues with the tornado ratings and damage indicators. Insurance industry having a say in those has made for some odd classifications.

Even when the mobile Doppler are out, their wind speed captures are disregarded in favor of damage observed against modern building code. It's stupid.

Easier just consider a 3 or higher a major tornado.

How does one become a chaser?

Do you allow non-chasers to ride with you? You could market and sell that.
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In reply to FTAG 2000 • 12:01p, 4/30/26
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FTAG 2000 said:
Yeah, as a chaser I have a lot of issues with the tornado ratings and damage indicators. Insurance industry having a say in those has made for some odd classifications.

Even when the mobile Doppler are out, their wind speed captures are disregarded in favor of damage observed against modern building code. It's stupid.

Easier just consider a 3 or higher a major tornado.


Unfortunately, it's been that way for a long, long time.
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In reply to TyHolden • 2:09p, 4/30/26
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TyHolden said:
FTAG 2000 said:
Yeah, as a chaser I have a lot of issues with the tornado ratings and damage indicators. Insurance industry having a say in those has made for some odd classifications.

Even when the mobile Doppler are out, their wind speed captures are disregarded in favor of damage observed against modern building code. It's stupid.

Easier just consider a 3 or higher a major tornado.

How does one become a chaser?

Do you allow non-chasers to ride with you? You could market and sell that.

Originally, I was just a photographer and videographer out and about. Living here in DFW, when I first graduated, I'd go out and try to get pics and vids of storms. I have a cousin who worked for Fox4 and they'd toss me some money if I got something good.

One night had two close calls. One with lightning from a storm that was a good 30 miles away arcing over my head and hitting a power pole about a hundred yards behind me. Later, I was trying to race a storm to get home and got side swiped by the rear flank downdraft as a tornado passed to our north. This was back before mobile apps and radar and well, knowledge. My girlfriend at the time also wasn't very happy about almost getting electrocuted or nailed by a tornado.

So I went to Skywarn training with the National Weather Service, went through all that and got certified. My aforementioned cousin at Fox also was kind enough to get me some time with their meteorology team at the station for some deeper knowledge, especially with how the atmosphere usually behaves here in North Texas - weather knowledge travels well, but around the big cities there's some extra dynamics to factor in.

I'm up to 35 tornados bagged now, plus everything in between with the weather (high end wind, hail events).

I've got two chase buddies that will usually go out if we can all make it work with our day jobs. Sometimes I'll take family and friends with me if someone's interested in going and/or especially driving as the chases tend to be long days and there's so much going on with the chase (driving, nav, radar and NWSChat, and observing the storms).

Used to let others coming along for paid rides, but have gotten away from that. Some tragedies in the chaser community up in Oklahoma several years back really put some liability stuff into play for having folks come out as paid passengers that have been pretty bitter pills to swallow, unfortunately. I've got a family now and different risk tolerance and estate factors to worry about that have just made it not worth it.

Wish I could say it's different or I could see it changing. It's fun introducing folks to weather and educating them on severe stuff, plus just getting out and appreciating nature (when it's not destroying lives and property). I've got friends who used to panic every storm that are informed and educated and handle things better for them and their families when weather comes in, which is good to see.





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11:50a, 5/1/26
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Sun is out here in Coppell; so much for the big rain today? Gonna hit 70 if the sun is out for any appreciable length of time.
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In reply to 2wealfth Man • 12:05p, 5/1/26
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2wealfth Man said:
Sun is out here in Coppell; so much for the big rain today? Gonna hit 70 if the sun is out for any appreciable length of time.

Delkus' rain total just kept going down and down and down.

On the 10pm news he had most of DFW with trace to .25".

We haven't gotten a drop in Prosper. Earlier in the week it was saying 1-2 inches. Sprinklers off, lol.

I'll keep em off. Cooler weather and low wind is helping not dry everything out. Unfortunately, I've had to water way too much this spring already. Going weeks in-between downpours doesn't help as much.
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In reply to ChoppinDs40 • 1:18p, 5/1/26
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ChoppinDs40 said:
2wealfth Man said:
Sun is out here in Coppell; so much for the big rain today? Gonna hit 70 if the sun is out for any appreciable length of time.

Delkus' rain total just kept going down and down and down.

On the 10pm news he had most of DFW with trace to .25".

We haven't gotten a drop in Prosper. Earlier in the week it was saying 1-2 inches. Sprinklers off, lol.

I'll keep em off. Cooler weather and low wind is helping not dry everything out. Unfortunately, I've had to water way too much this spring already. Going weeks in-between downpours doesn't help as much.

I'm also in the Prosper/Celina area and this time last week it was looking good to get almost daily rain as forecasted. I'm pretty sure .25 was accurate for the entire WEEK.
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In reply to Silvertaps • 1:23p, 5/1/26
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Silvertaps said:
ChoppinDs40 said:
2wealfth Man said:
Sun is out here in Coppell; so much for the big rain today? Gonna hit 70 if the sun is out for any appreciable length of time.

Delkus' rain total just kept going down and down and down.

On the 10pm news he had most of DFW with trace to .25".

We haven't gotten a drop in Prosper. Earlier in the week it was saying 1-2 inches. Sprinklers off, lol.

I'll keep em off. Cooler weather and low wind is helping not dry everything out. Unfortunately, I've had to water way too much this spring already. Going weeks in-between downpours doesn't help as much.

I'm also in the Prosper/Celina area and this time last week it was looking good to get almost daily rain as forecasted. I'm pretty sure .25 was accurate for the entire WEEK.


Got about 15 seconds of light rain but big drops yesterday. That's about the sum total for my entire week. Might have wetted the rain gauge exterior a bit.
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3:19p, 5/1/26
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I got enough earlier this week in Parker County. Thankful for the trace amounts today.
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In reply to Silvertaps • 3:39p, 5/1/26
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Sun was shining on the day of the hailmageddon.
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6:56p, 5/1/26
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To Pete's credit, he owned up to the rainfall forecast bust, and gives somewhat of an explanation.



...and he certainly wasn't the only one to blow this one. I heard one guy on the radio yesterday say we should expect 10-12 hours of rain today.
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6:21a, 5/8/26
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Got dumped on with big thunder and lightning for about 30 minutes in far west Plano
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10:31p, 5/8/26
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Just had quarter size hail and power knocked out due to lightning strike in prosper.
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In reply to PDEMDHC • 10:33p, 5/8/26
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All just east of us in Star trail.
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10:46p, 5/8/26
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We're at a show in Irving. Any word on NE McKinney?
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12:06p, 5/9/26
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Some sportiness tonight and tomorrow
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In reply to wangus12 • 1:14p, 5/9/26
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Any update? It looked pretty spicy in McKinney last night. Big thunder and lightning seen from west prosper.
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4:24p, 5/9/26
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Supposed to be bad storms tomorrow afternoon/evening…

Do we think it's going to actually be true?
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4:45a, 5/10/26
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Woo wee. GOOD MORNING COLLIN COUNTY
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7:17a, 5/10/26
I have a three car garage with all my shop stuff in tehe third bay. I have wheels on all my shop stuff.

Everything is queued up ready to be rolled outside and pull my third car in. No one cares if my work benches and tool chests get hail damage.
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11:20a, 5/10/26
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Looking grim fast at our house
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11:22a, 5/10/26
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It cometh. What looks to be popping up northwest of ft worth later today is spooky.
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