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i have on the phone, thank you, carl, may i please ask you to stick around. i have joe holleran. are you there? yes, i am. what can you tell me is happening in joshua county? about 30 minutes ago, we had one tornado which touched down. we ve had three or four others that dropped down. we ve had the local schools have gone into a lockdown but we have just lifted those. we re getting in the truck now and starting to drive around the area to see if we can spot any damage. so far we ve not had any reports of damage within the city limits of joshua. you were telling me the kids at the schools in your county had been placed on lockdown. that has been lifted since? in joshua, it has. my daughter is a teacher just north of here and she said she is still in lockdown there. my nephew is not very far from there. for those who don t know this area, we re about north texas. the region of the dallas/ft. ....
In your home or your business. you want to put as many walls between and you the outside as possible. you want to cover your windows. get into an area with a small. a wall space such as a closet or a bathroom. something like. that we have seen a lot of damage debris at least from afar. we haven t seen it up close. we ve seen a lot of debris in the air which would seem to indicate the storm has done a lot of damage. this tornado warning extends this storm farther north and east. and does include now dallas. this is on the east side of dallas. a tornado emergency. and there has been some confirmation of damage already. so heads up there right along the 45 corridor. hutchins and then between mesquite and dallas. the east side of dallas. we re still looking at a very well defined tornadic circulation. i ve just again, and i hate to put it this way but i m getting information from my own mother who is now hiding in her ....
There are points at which the condensation funnel is not as well defined. in some cases, it appears to not be hitting the ground. but it is certainly still there. there is a circulation still in place, going all the way to the ground. and so that is a damaging tornado. i fear that we ll be hearing about some very serious damage and possibly injuries or worse. we re also getting reports of other possible tornadoes on the ground. what else can you tell us? this is not the only activity being reported in that area of north texas right now. no, and i haven t had a moment to update, but i can see that there are three tornado warnings in progress right now. one of those is now in between ft. worth and dallas. it looks like it is coming into the arlington area. we have another area there. there is another tornado warning on the northwest side of ft. worth and ft. worth metro area there. all of these storms are ....
Here s downtown dallas. this is i-45. there s i-20. this is hutchins. this is where the storm is where there was a tornado showing up via helicopter and on radar. there is still a hook echo in here. as we look in the storm, there is some evidence of rotation but it is not incredibly robust at this point. nonetheless, a dangerous storm that will be headed up east of dallas and there is now a brand new tornado warning that has been issued for eastern dallas county. that going until 2:15. you want to watch out for mesquite, in sunnyvale, roland and richardson as this moves north at 25 miles an hour. and still a tornado warning in effect there. here we go. this is some of the damage that we re seeing. this is video. let me listen in to where this is. she stumbled out of the house. sees these cars all tangled up ....
Tornadoes. this is why we warn you about them. serious business. one yes for you. were you hearing the sirens going off? i was told they were sounded in dallas county. reporter: they were indeed going off in lancaster. we heard them still going off as we came in here. thanks a lot. we ve still got tornadoes on the ground. we ll find a nice balance of this is again the local station kxas. they re discussing damage in lancaster. this is all happening in north texas. carl parker, the weather channel is standing by. carl, i ve been going back and forthwith my own family members who are in johnson county, right where this activity is taking place. i do know that my nephew s high school, burleson high school, on lockdown will my brother s bank of employment as well on lockdown. as you imagine, customers as will. my mother and two small children, like so many other families right now being told to get into a safe spot in their homes. ....