If you have friends or family in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, check in with them to make sure they're okay. There are some enormous tornados touching down and wreaking havoc all over the area in Eastern Dallas and Arlington. You can see it picking up tractor trailers and throwing them around.
Tired of those nasty, dusty El Paso winds? We'll take that over what we're about to show you from Oklahoma City's KOCO-TV. A series of nasty twisters have hit the heart of America's "Tornado Alley", including one the KOCO helicopter caught demolishing this tractor trailer. (And who's FLYING A HELICOPTER in the middle of a THUNDERSTORM?!)
Joplin, MO, was hit by a mile-wide F4 tornado, devastating the city of around 50,000. It's tough enough to watch on TV, even tougher for veteran Weather Channel meteorologist/reporter Mike Bettes who is there...
We may complain about the ugly winds in El Paso, but we are very blessed with the weather we have. I am amazed at how calm the guy in this video is, considering the destruction taking place. So what's a little wind?