Thursday, February 22, 2018

Three tornadoes touched down in Texas night before last. Now, just flooding.

February 21, 2018
2230.38z
UNISYS (partically impaired because of pandering to Russia) water vapor satellite of the north and west hemisphere (click here for 12 hour loop - thank you)

February 21, 2018
By Max Golembo

A stalled frontal boundary (click here) continues to bring flooding rain, severe storms, freezing rain and snow from Texas to Michigan. More than 5 inches of rain has been reported in parts of Midwest over the last 24 hours sending many rivers into major flooding....

There were at least 30 homes damaged.

February 20, 2018
10:35 p.m.

A motorist stops to clear ice from his wipers along I-70 near Lawrence, Kan., 
Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018. The area is under a winter weather advisory. 

The National Weather Service (click here) now says it was three tornadoes that hit North Texas.

It says two of the twisters struck early Tuesday in a rural area near Joshua, destroying at least two mobile homes and severely damaging several others. A mother and her disabled daughter were injured when one tornado demolished their mobile home.

The third tornado struck a short time later in the Dallas suburb of DeSoto. No injuries were reported there.

The weather service says all three tornadoes were weak EF0 ones with winds ranging from 65 to 85 mph (105 to 137 kph).

After the tornadoes came the rain. Up to 4? inches of it fell in the Dallas-Fort Worth area by 8 p.m. Tuesday, causing some flooding....