Well, I shouldn't type while watching chopper video of a tornado flinging semi trucksthru the air. My family doesn't live in the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, they live in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Some of them work at the airport but are home in Oklahoma today. I hope I stated that clearly enough. I feel discombobulated and I bet I didn't spell that correctly either.

The tornado I had been watching was hitting Hutchins southeast of Dallas. A tornado now is near Mesquite.

I bet they're glad they're home today! There's a possible tornado headed for DFW airport now. Everyone in the terminals were told to take cover a few minutes ago, but I saw video of airplanes sitting stopped out on the tarmac.

The storm looks like it's moving east of the airport, though they did get some hail. Sounds like the mets are concerned about another storm that is headed for the Denton area right now.

Dawn, I was thinking about your guys and hoping they were OK. My family in Burleson said they got wind and rain but everything is OK with them.

Heather,

We were on our way home from Lewisville after a morning of shopping followed by lunch when our phones went crazy to tell us of a tornado in Arlington and one near DeSoto. Our son had been shopping in Dallas but was on the road home ahead of us. We walked in the door shortly thereafter to see the live chopper video from KXAS that was showing on TWC while Dr. Forbes was giving updates.

I never in my life thought I'd see semi trailers swirling through the air like that, not even on TV. Incredible.

I think the airport was missed, but Tim and Chris were monitoring constantly. Our former daughter in law was texting our son to tell him she could see the tornado from her place of employment in Irving. It was a few crazy minutes. The one you mentioned near Denton....maybe that is what now has left Addison headed northeast?

For all of you who are wondering where else it was happening, just a minute ago there were 4 active tornado warnings with at least a confirmed funnel cloud in the Addison to Plano corridor, something else headed towards Arlington and Ground Prairie and another warning area near Greenville and Sulphur Springs. There's a lot of red in the radar.

Heather, Last night with storms to our far west and to our southeast, we had a very brief appearance of a small area of mammatus clouds. Tim pointed them out to me and I said "it is an omen" but I was kidding, and they went away after 10 or 15 minutes and the sky cleared and was blue and sunny again. I guess it was an omen 18 hours in advance.

Carol, Thanks for thinking of us. As often as I mention D-FW and my guys working there, I figured I'd better post they were okay so you and others would know. Thanks for the thoughts and prayers.

So far, as near as we can determine, everyone we know is fine, but the continuing storms remind us no one is really out of the woods yet.

I'm glad we went to Lewisville this morning and not this afternoon.

We still have hail damage to the car we haven't had repaired yet from the last tornado path Tim unwittingly strayed into. He was hoping the damage would "pop out" in last summer's heat, but finally gave up on that thought and the insurance company just cut us a check to get it fixed.

My thoughts and prayers are with everyone in the path of today's storms.

Dawn

Dawn, our flight from Frankfurt suppose to land in DFW at 2.20pm, but now diverted to Houston, waiting here until weather clears... I hope all is well with you and all in those areas. We just flown over tornadoes...seems to be very thick and water filled clouds... -Chandra

I just saw on Twitter that American Airlines is canceling all its flights at DFW for the rest of the day. They probably need to check out all the planes and make sure the hail didn't cause any damage, but can you imagine the chaos that is going to cause? Not just in Dallas but with all the flights connecting there. I'm also seeing a lot of reports on Twitter about damage and search and rescue in Arlington. I hope everyone had enough warning to take cover and keep themselves safe. It's good to hear all your family and friends are okay, Dawn.

It doesn't sound like the DFW area is out of the woods yet. I just saw reports of tornadoes near Sulphur Springs and Lawson. Crazy day!

Chandra, I hope you don't have to stay in Houston tonight. There are still additional severe storms developing. Some airlines at DFW have cancelled many or all flights because hail damaged aircraft and now they must inspect each and every plane for airworthiness before it can fly. Stay safe down there in Houston. The storms continue to spin off more severe storms with hail and tornadoes. I just heard that Forney has been hit by a tornado. Reportedly there is damage to an elementary school and high school there according to news reports.

Heather, American Airline is the one Tim mentioned to me too. What an awful day. TWC keeps replaying the footage with the semi trailers swirling through the air and it is just as mind-blowing to watch it now as it was the first time.

Tim spoke with a coworker in Arlington whose home was not hit, but his mother's and grandmother's homes were. I cannot imagine how many structures and vehicles have been damaged by the hail, high winds, tornadoes, etc.

I suppose if y'all were down there today, you'd be chasing storms like mad. I sure am glad we were almost home before all this hit.

You know how weather-obsessed I am, but I have to confess that since the plan for the day was to escape the falling rain by heading south for shopping and lunch, I didn't even look at the forecast this morning. I knew we had rain here (well, it was falling, so it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out) and as we drove south early this morning, everything seemed fine. As we were headed home a few hours later, the skies got pretty dark behind us. Little did we know all sorts of wild weather was about to ensue.

Dawn