MARCH 28th Jack Co. Tx./NW Tarrant Co.
SPC had DFW bullseye'd with a moderate risk but after analyzing everything our target was the Seymour, TX area. We headed up hwy 287 after fighting construction slowed traffic to just get out of town (I know, we should have took the hint and stayed home, right). It was already after 2pm. We talked to Al Moller at the NWS and found out about the first storms going up NE of Abilene so we decided to go west at Bowie in case they held together. Just as we did this the Montague Co. Supercell was just going up to our west. We watched it for a while but it was high-based at that time and we decided to go west for storms routed in the boundary layer. As we traveled west our observations told us we needed to be further south since everything around us was high-based. So we headed south towards Jacksboro. NW of town we encountered Extremely heavy precip and drove a bit NW to get out of it. This put us behind everything the rest of the day. We did see the most perfect full double rainbow I've ever seen in SE Jack Co. As we drove down hwy 199 the storm that would produce the Ft. Worth tornado was just ahead of us. All We could do is inch along just behind the softball hail falling just ahead of us. We were on the NW side of the hook at we heard and reported the tornado touch down on the police radio. I also ended up just blocks behind the hook in south Arlington as it was hit. A frustrating day but thank god we are ok and though we grieve for the loss of life and property, we know just how lucky we were in Ft. Worth. this could have been much, much worse.