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Worth metroplex which would sound familiar to a national audience here. but these areas, there is a saying in texas. it takes you 45 minutes to get to your mailbox. these are wide counties. a wide area, if you will, that were talking about here. mr. mayor, youve not seen any damage so far in your county. >> no, we have not. and weve had all of our crews have been out going around the city and they have not spotted any. >> thank you so much. the mayor of joshua county again in north texas. carl, ...

Storm. but the damage appeared to be restricted to root damage. i didnt see any walls torn out or anything like that, but i didnt go very deep. >> so thats good news. so more like ef-0, ef-1 damage, probably, from this, not a really destructive tornado, but probably a lot of that debris you were seeing was shingles flying through the air. >> right, shingles, insulation, you know, the plastic that covers insulation sometimes. a lot of that flying around. >> were looking at our velocity display ri...

When he spoke to us a few moments ago, one of the additional aggravations and dangers associated with this particular storm series is that the rate at which the overall storm is moving across the ground is below average, and as a result, the tornado, when it does touch down, is staying there longer, and to that end weve asked weather channel meteorologist carl parker to rejoin us. give us a sense of how slow this overall series of storms is moving, carl, whether that is, in fact, still the case,...

Are passing now to the north. they are moving up into the very northern part of the state of texas, moving away at about 25 miles an hour. here youre looking at video of the tornado that we saw earlier today. now, this was the storm that came up into dallas county, in the southeast side of dallas. you see the power flashes there. weve seen a pretty good bit of damage. most of what weve seen seems to be in the realm of ef-1 or ef-2 damage, so low to moderate in terms of the amount of damage. when...

Theyve been running into that cooler surface air made so by the cooler rain, so it does bring down the threat. its not nothing, but it does bring down the threat a little bit. >> so the warm air is effectively fuel for the fire. thank you, carl. i want to turn our attention to one of the communities, burleson, texas. joining us on the phone is the towns mayor, ken shedder. the storms have already hit this region just south of ft. worth. mr. mayor, whats the damage assessment? >> well, we are for...

T ters. so oftentimes when you have those upper level winds, that is when you get the high-end extremely violent tornadoes. i dont think weve seen those truly high-end tornadoes here. this seems to be consistent with ef-1 to ef-2 damage, so the low to moderate damage where you see structural damage, roofs being damaged or in some cases torn away. certainly it is very scary but not the worst of tornadoes. but as you say, because of those slower upper level winds, the parent storm is not moving as...

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To our weather services such that there have been, it appears, indication that this was going to happen at least minutes before any touchdowns. folks were given the opportunity, hopefully more than minutes, to seek coverage. joining us now on the phone is a man who knows all too well about the need to be a few minutes ahead of these storms and take cover. reed timmer is a storm chaser for the discovery channel who is currently on the texas-oklahoma border passing the red river. the chain of torn...