If you're not on Twitter or don't use it regularly, Tuesday night's storms in North Texas should have been enough to change your mind. While the local news stations had pretty good weather coverage, the best real-life, up-to-the-minute information was found on Twitter. (Plus, Twitter wasn't
interrupted with kickbacks to
Dancing With the Stars.)
The key was to follow the right people on Twitter -- the citizen journalists and actual journalists who shared information quickly and (we hope) accurately.
Here are our favorite photos taken Tuesday:
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| @jeremiahjw: "I snapped this pic of the storm clouds earlier." It was taken at about 5 p.m. in Quinlan, Texas. |
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| @themark23 says: "East Dallas hail. Pelting my car." |
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| @theneer: "Dudes, this totally happened. Funnel cloud whipped by close enough for a crazy shot but far away enough that my roomie shot this" in Denton. |
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| @brianvinson: "Is Denton clear? Check out the pic I took at 8:05." |
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| @the33news: "THIS is what began attacking my car -- and that is the least scary thing right now. #tornado" |
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| @MattGrubs: "In Dallas, please get inside. Here's a pic of Flower Mound funnel..." |
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@thudson: "Massive tree snapped onto a large SUV in Uptown Dallas" at 10:08 p.m. Stay tuned for Round 2.
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UPDATE: Twitter also had very quick information for tornado warnings and watches. Check out some of the most notable tweets in a matter of about 100 minutes -- during the worst part of the storm:
@kdfw: "Golfball size hail falling out at people at the ballpark for the Rangers game" at 8:51 p.m.
@oncor: "As storms make their way through N. TX, please stay safe! If you see downed power lines, call 911 and report pwr outages at 888-313-4747" at 8:51 p.m.
@dallas_news: "National Weather Service has canceled Tornado Warning for Collin County as storm has somewhat weakened" at 8:53 p.m.
@cbs11news: "Baseball sized hail reports in downtown Fort Worth." at 9:01 p.m.
@nickulo: "Hiding in the Saucer's cooler from the tornado. Totally not stealing beer.
@FlyingSaucerLak yfrog.com/h7e1szrj" at 9:12 p.m.
@the33news: "Ballpark in Arlington is putting fans through dugout to stadium -- not even safe under awnings" at 9:17 p.m.
@CheEdenBell: "Dallas Love Field basement, about as fun as rabies. http://twitpic.com/525ko8" at 9:29 p.m.
@aandro: "Fans are returning to their seats at Rangers Ballpark. Only in Texas. 15 minutes after hail hit the park" at 9:33 p.m.
@walkabledfw: "Downtown Dallas tornado sirens going off for first time tonight" at 9:46 p.m.
@nbcdfw: "Funnel cloud sighted in southern Dallas county near Lancaster. Storm is moving East. Take shelter" at 9:51 p.m.
@jbatsell: "Flight to Heathrow canceled. Hail damage to our plane" at 9:53 p.m.
@dartmedia: "TRE is resuming its normal schedule. DART Rail will experience delays throughout the evening due to local power outages" at 9:54 p.m.
@NBCDFWWeather: "New t-storm Warning for Hood, Johnson, Somervell, and Tarrant counties till 11 PM. Golfball hail and 60 mph winds" at 10:11 p.m.
@NBCDFWWeather: "Tornado Warning for Dallas has been canceled as storm is moving out but a new Severe t-storm warning is about to be issued" at 10:15 p.m.
@cbs11news: "Getting reports of 70 mph winds in Plano. Please take cover now in a center room without windows, folks" at 10:27 p.m.
@kdfw: "once this last line moves through we should be done with the severe weather" at 10:44 p.m.
@RangerBlake: "Tarp coming off. First pitch at 11:20 pm. #rangersweather" at 10:45 p.m.
by Sarah Blaskovich
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