What the --? It's 2am, and that's the tornado siren!
Since I help produce FOX 4's severe weather coverage, I'm usually at the TV station when the big storms roll through. So in my 11 years of living in Flower Mound, I've never been here to hear the Flower Mound tornado sirens go off - until tonight.
Tonight's sudden storm was pretty freakish. It wasn't a classic severe weather situation, but it was a close call. The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning about 1:40 this morning because they saw some storm circulation tightening near Trophy Club. As the storm moved through, it didn't maintain that circulation very well, and from what I can see, the tornado threat passed here without any apparent incident.
Actually I got a head start on the sirens. My wife is in charge of the morning news team at a competing TV station, and she was already up getting ready to go to work. She got us up out of bed, and believe it or not, the four of us (plus the dog) actually all fit into the closet below the stairs while the sirens blared.
Back to sleep, I hope. The little one is right next to me, still scared from the big show tonight.
Did the sirens wake you up?
7am Update; The storms overnight dropped another 1.52" of rain here. That makes 3.83" of rain since Friday night.
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posted by Chip Mahaney @ 2:06 AM
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The storms woke me up first. The sirens were hard to hear through the rain, I actually got up and opened the door to make sure it was sirens I was hearing.
This is the second time that I have questioned whether it was sirens that I was hearing. I wish they could be a little louder.
Nothing like 2AM sirens for a tornado warning and I can't find any news coverage on any of the local channels.... or even a zoomed in radar on the digital sub-channels to know if I'm in danger or not.
Either we have way too much storm coverage or none at all... Uggh.
I agree with Brian. We were already up by chance, heard the sirens, and went through all the channels to find out more info. Finally, Channel 11 had some detailed information, which we kept a close watch until about 2:15 am when the tornado threat seemed to have passed this area.
Slept right through it! Maybe my husband was snoring louder than the storm!
The severity of that one storm caught everyone by surprise. There was a Flash Flood Watch because of the threat of additional rains, but there was no real severe-weather threat -- no watches, and certainly no fear of a tornado warning. So it appears to me that all the on-air meteorologists went home, which is quite reasonable given the forecast data that was available to the National Weather Service and to all the TV weather folks late yesterday evening.
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