Dallas, Texas Tornado From Tropical Storm Hermine - 9/8/2010

[XDjojo123]

so it was technecly near the anatole on th I 35E corridor

[invaderhector3]

THAT HURRICANE RUIN MY B-DAY DX

[skipper8257]

@invaderhector3

Hey DX, it's a TORNADO

[invaderhector3]

@skipper8257 i know the hurricane MADE that tornado

[Jinx11111]

first the flood, then a tornado in the same day.

[2000hadee]

I was near it, tonado sirens went off but we did not see it!

[PoppaBlue59]

The Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex has had some very near misses over the years. Most of the tornados we have had have been relativly small, short-lived ones. The 1957 tornado was the exception, of course, and that one was a "near miss" when you consider what it could have been. I think it isw only a matter of time until a whopper plows over us. I hope i am wrong though! Nice video. Thanks for posting.

[JDart1776]

@PoppaBlue59: "I think it isw only a matter of time until a whopper plows over us." Me too. =(

[Dreamscape2007]

@Vinson37Me It actually started to come back down out of the clouds a second time around Love Field, after I had stopped recording, but it didn't make it all the way to the ground.

[Arbiter9990]

was about 1 mile away at Lovefield, saw it, not so scary

[mexicanmanright]

i was like right in front of it went it started to happened i got home safely and like two or three houses got like literally thrown up into the air like 5 houses down from me

[wzerba]

oh how yall get so close to it, thats one big ass tornado. when i was at texas stadium thats wehn i saw it, the dallas cowboys cheerleaders were practicing. it was awesome! i was scared though im a dallas cowboys cheerleader. my kid nadia goes on my youtube channel alll the tim and puts videos of her on it!!!!!!

[Thatt00Chickk]

@BohemianEdward lol you were pretty close to it, I wasn't.

[satanxhhhx]

Definitely a memorable moment. There were a few cells (not just the one right over Dallas) that was tornadic, and there were multiple tornado warnings during that time. I was watching all this on grlevel3 radar, and these were some beautiful storms.

[bfmikee]

where the fuck was i when this happen

[FockfordRosgate]

@bfmikee

I said the same shit dude, lol. 

[lawae]

I work near where the tornado landed and drove pass the damaged commercial area. I kid you not when I say on Mockingbird there were a straight row of fucked up buildings, and the only unscathed was the 24hr Adult video store!! lol.. and I'm dead serious about that

[Demifreak10]

wow this must be scary we never seen tornadoes in houston

[MALP1231]

I'm originally from Bid D. Lived there for the first 41 years of my life. I was raised to the sound of tornado sirens, and well remember the worst tornado to ever hit Dallas...April 1957. I was 8 years old. It was one of the most beautiful/eerie sights I have ever witnessed. The sky was green...the clouds were various colors...purple, green, yellow, orange. Through the years, there were other tornadoes that hit Dallas; however, the 57 one was the worst. They are beautiful in form and symmetry.

[crazyandlazy07]

I went to see the damage right after it left... lol, but i missed the tornado... darnd...

[tednugentlives]

This was a cool little tornado, saw it on TX11 from the tower cam. Bet traffic on tollway was screwed..

[spookthecat2]

it's not the end of 2012, it's almost the end of 2010

[Blackwoolfy]

Approaching the end of 2012

[SgtGrant23]

everytime theres a tornado warning near my house and the sirens are going off i go outside to see whats going on

[tremer88]

nice

[Gavsta40]

I wish we got storms like that(I'm not crazy).

[tednugentlives]

@Gavsta40 I hope youre not serious. I Dont enjoy replacing my roof and fence every spring. If it misses you there is always hail damage..Its not cheap.

[Gavsta40]

@tednugentlives I mean filming that stuff/ chasing them.

[AtarahDerek]

They tell you to stay under shelter until the sirens stop, then they go and turn them off while the tornado is on the ground. The message I'm getting here is, "OK, the tornado has passed the people who matter. Everyone on the wrong side of the tracks can come out and get sucked up by nature's vacuum now."

[Ethan07895]

@AtarahDerek Just because the siren stops dosent mean the tornado is gone, i dont know who told you that when the siren turns off the torando is gone and over with

[AtarahDerek]

@Ethan07895 Most emergency procedure pamphlets tell you that when the sirens sound for a tornado, take shelter UNTIL THE SIRENS STOP. That's why that rather large gap of silence between warnings is a little disconcerting. At least with hurricanes they tell you not to be fooled by the calm center of the eye.

[TheJ2901]

i live in frisco texas near dallas and the weaher was terrible in my school it was terrible we had to be hid away from the windows the whole day. also they had to close some streets cuz the water was overflowing the streets

[Thatt00Chickk]

I was asleep when all this was going on...

[BohemianEdward]

@Thatt00Chickk I was asleep too! XD This happened just up the street from my apartment; I can't believe I missed the whole thing!

[kyang722]

I was there at the time in one of the buildings right at Harry Hines and Inwood, and all I could hear was the siren and people running around to get inside away from the windows because it was heading our way!!!I Scary stuff!! Tornado turned away at the last minute, thanks for the vid post!

[343775]

I was freaked out when the siren went off!!!

[BeautyandStyleGirl]

My house was inbetween two funnels and there was like a blackout! But me and my parents were all sitting outside watching not even taking shelter lol

[rhotdude]

omg!! i was only blocks away!!

[PCCphoenix]

That was dangerously close to my own neck of the woods! Thank you for sharing this!

[iefraplas08]

i was surprised.. no thunder, lightning... just a lot of heavy rain.... i work near that area as well..... thank God we were all safe..

[SkySavior]

my poor house.....i live in an apartment now DX

[BeautyandStyleGirl]

I live in Dallas, and I was so freaked out! I couldn't believe it! But my parents didn't really care, they were just chillin and talking and laughin normally lol. I was so freaked out tho.

[humanreplica]

Oh man, I am in McKinney and I was glued to the TV during this whole thing. We had sirens going off up here as well because there was another threat at the same time this was happening, but the news keep assuring us that the threat wasn't that bad and nothing exciting was happening. Needless to say, I was freaking out for my buddies that live downtown.

[dleonard2006]

Dallas native here! That was wild yesterday and thankfully nobody was seriously injured from any of these twisters. God bless!

[psvaughan]

WOW - I work at the Rosewood Court building right by the Crescent - I left work about an hour before this happened. My boss watched it from his office window - wild! I have lived in Dallas all my life and have never seen anything like this!

[Wolfsbane909]

@psvaughan u gets get twisters ALL the time in downtown Dallas!

[yamilink03]

@Wolfsbane909 No we don't.

[Wolfsbane909]

@yamilink03 people "disappear" in tornadoes thankfully no one was killed.

[weatherwatcher75]

This is sort of like the tornado of 1957. It was pretty much in the same area. My dad was a kid and saw it from his house on Peak St.

[toolshuggah]

@weatherwatcher75

Yeah I know it, I thought that was pretty wild. As isolated an area tornadoes occur in, this one was in the exact same path. Thankfully this one didn't stay on the ground for nearly as long.

[TxRaider13]

this was kick ass to watch live in downtown

[kmokatz]

Really Good Video! I saw this thing from my work building at Greenville & University - it was pretty exciting! Never seen a "live" one before and I've been in TX all my life - go figure! :-/ What a surreal day yesterday was...

[locamente10]

GREAT VIDEO.

[Hurricanecnote1]

Is that Childrens Hospital and the Dallas Market in the Back

[wrangleman7]

Wild day yesterday !! Gotta love Tx weather : )

nice pics

[Blacksun388]

UTD in Richardson and SMU were forced into basements around this time. I was at my apartment on the ground floor at UTD just hoping it didn't touch down. Scary stuff.

[churchofvalo]

pk4mos I think it was around 6 or so

[vasquash]

Amazing shot... Frightening yet so beautiful.

[Myprideandjoycameron]

Thanks for posting this. I was at work when it happened and my child was at daycare. It seemed like I couldnt get to my child fast enough...

[pk4mos]

What time was this?

[babylizy4]

@pk4mos It was around 6:10 to 6:18

[BrandonMLX]

Hard to believe that everything was just fine in Fort Worth... but I was getting concerned with all the sunshine that something would develop in Tarrant County (due to the effects of daytime heating on instability)... fortunately nothing happened on my side of DFW.

[7Haole]

Ha, I chased this for the NWS yesterday and didn't have video. Glad someone got something better than the news stations. Good camera work.

[mythicalhell]

was that an EF 1 or EF2 tornado?

[chris71mach1]

@mythicalhell it was only an EF 1, but it did its share of damage for sure.

[mythicalhell]

@chris71mach1 Ok, yes, even an ef1 can do damage! Had on destroy 70+ trees on my property in NH in 2008.

[TheRogueCowgirl]

You are very lucky, omg the size of that cell coulda turned for the worst... not just the branch off but that entire cloud coulda turned into a bigger storm. I hate the way the winds sound during those cells... urks me to no end.

[gameshowluvr86]

I was just leaving Urban Outfitters in Mockingbird Station, when my roommate Laura calls me...

Laura: Josh, are you O.K.?

Josh: Um... Yeah? Why shouldn't I be? It's just raining...

Laura: Don't panic...

Josh: What the hell's happening, Laura?

Laura: There's a tornado warning for Dallas...

Josh: Huh? (Rolls down windows to hear sirens going off...)

Josh: Awwww... shit.... Where's it at??

Laura: It's somewhere in between Mockingbird and Downtown Dallas...

Josh: FUCK!!! Change, light!! CHANGE!!!

[taliewacker2007]

thank you for posting this. i was in the middle of it, couldnt see it thou.

[sdp0765]

i saw the whole thing play out from reunion tower 560 ft up with a clear view of it. it was pretty amazing. i was glad it wasnt headed at us in a giant glass ball!

[efuentes78]

I was at work when I saw the tornado literally 3 blocks away and yes it did touch down... Cops had from irving blvd to close to 183 blocked off due to powerlines down and buildings roof collapsed

[Wolfsbane909]

That "could've" been a real nasty tornadoe if it touched down on Dallas.

[rwolfsham]

@MrSecureT Don't comment like a know-it-all if you have no idea what happened today.

[TheCheapSkirt]

Actually it did touch down. Quite a bit.

[rdhuffman2007]

Scary but a great video of it.. That's too close for comfort

[archibaldmainsfield]

i was @ jesuit waiting for my dad when the sirens went off. knowing me i was outside looking for the tornado when every1 else was inside lmao. i didnt see it though :c i probably looked the wrong way :(

[johnnykcks]

awesome wind up at 2:44 & 2:53!

[johnnykcks]

what kind of sirens? fs-2001??

[Rickybobbyok]

I live in southern oklahoma, we had a tornado touch down 9/8/10 around 8:30 pm. we have revived 8.4 inches of rain and it's still raining

[beeftaco214]

i was biking at the time and the sirens were going off around the white rock area

[cobraschlange]

OMFG I am at SMU and we could see the funnel. I was at the computer with headphones on and didn't notice until i was told the sirens were sounding. We could see the downtown area silhouetted against the tornado.It looked like it was standing still, and then we understood what that meant. It was heading in our direction. We all freaked.

[lt1383z28]

i was about 1/2 mile from it

[rudolphtheredtoo]

at 3:20 I was in the tallest building on the right around 605 pm. Thanks for posting this. I watched it cross the Trinity River and do some major damage along the way.

[noechaos]

i was there!



[firealarmfreak5]

There was a tornado warning for us up in Cooke County at about 7:30, no damage though.

[Wolfsbane909]

@firealarmfreak5 and thats a GOOD thing!

[firealarmfreak5]

@Wolfsbane909 Actually we did get damage, but no tornado was spotted, just a funnel.

[samuelgould]

@firealarmfreak5 You can't have damage and it be just a funnel cloud. The fact that there is damage makes it a tornado.

[OzZyFaN007]

i didn't know that it went back up i didn't see it but i knew it was there

so thats why the sirens went on and off again for like 15

[kuhataparunks]

Testing day for the sirens too!

[vancecoledotcom]

@kuhataparunks

No, siren test day is the first Wednesday of the month here, I believe

The first Wednesday was the 1st of Sept, though I don't remember them going off then...

Maybe you're right

^^;

[ConChaz100]

I was right next to ferris and seen it trying to come down and it came down and would go back up down again it did this several times then moved on into dallas I was so scared, thanks so much for the video you did a awesome job. yes really did some damage on mockingbird but it really could have been worse we were all very lucky..

[shaggy160]

I really really thought I was gonna die, and the worst part was that my two little children were with me at the door, trying desperately to get in.

[OzZyFaN007]

@shaggy160 i know how you feel dude

[shaggy160]

It started right where I live, I live by the Goodwill and I was outside my house looking at the sky. I saw some wind rotation up there then it started to get closer and I ran to the house. When I was at the door trying to open it, the wind was very strong, I thougjt I was gonna die. Fortunately , there was no damage to my property. Some neighbors lost their fences and some trees fell.

[neto304100]

i think i shit myself when i was goin home but there was no tornado where i was at thanks god

[StormChaserNick]

great job!

[TheOTTO2732]

A lot of bulidngs in that area got damaged but there was more rain than EVER up here in carrollton but no tornado!!

[romantic8fanatic]

notice that the sirens TURNED OFF about 1 minute into the footage - only to restart about 2 minutes later.

Who ARE the wackos who get to DECIDE this stuff!?!

[AgentUsajr]

wow amazing footage u got there, i was watching this on Channel 33 and they had their cameras near their studio, thank god i live in fort worth

[jessfierce]

that was sooo scary!..i was in class at utd....they made us to go the basement!!..you got awesome video of it..thanks for sharing!!!

[Bbendfender]

Doesn't look like a lot of rotation but I personally would get out of the way.

[DubhghlasScott]

Fantastic capture. Today has been an interesting day for sure.

[OzZyFaN007]

@DubhghlasScott yeah i know

[Gmod105020]

My first time experiencing a tornado warning...

[TheonenameJuan]

Damn i was near that thank god it dint escalate any more than it did!!

[Joevirus]

Wow I saw this tornado as it was starting up on channel 11 (they had footage from the helicopter)... You had a very scary vantage point!

[mvalerio82]

This has to be one of the scariest days of my life! I live on cedars springs and I bolted to the closet when I heard that scary siren. Wow what a day!

[ByakuyaSama05]

Obama's tornado trying to liberate Dallas.

[RejectedShotgun]

Holy crap, I was in /dallas. It was 1/4 mile from me

[forestlock]

wow man this was a crazy day for us north texas folks. first a tropical storm and then a tornado. crazy day.

[ResidentPinto]

I've been watching Channel 8 News since this all began! Amazing video!

[bahays1985]

from Garland here, so glad I wasn't near any of the tornadoes!!