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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 we're talking about here. mr. mayor, you've not seen any damage so far in your county. >> no, we have not. and we've 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, if you're still there. you hear the mayor of that county saying that there were reports of suspec...

Storm. but the damage appeared to be restricted to root damage. i didn't see any walls torn out or anything like that, but i didn't go very deep. >> so that's 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. >> we're looking at our velocity display right now. still a good bunch of greens and reds together. it's centered over chisolm right now in...

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 we've 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, and just how much more damage is possible when you get a slow-moving set like this? >> well, that ...

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 you're 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. we've seen a pretty good bit of damage. most of what we've 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 you're looking at there is what we call the condensation funnel. that's the actual cloud that is...

They've been running into that cooler surface air made so by the cooler rain, so it does bring down the threat. it's 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 town's mayor, ken shedder. the storms have already hit this region just south of ft. worth. mr. mayor, what's the damage assessment? >> well, we are fortunate, and our city in burleson, most of the damage here is from lightning strikes. we had a fe...