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Update: National Weather Service says early indications are the tornado that hit Granbury was a devastating EF-4

Update at 10:20 a.m.: Jesse Moore, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Fort Worth, says the survey team is reporting that the tornado that hit Granbury last night was an EF-4, the second-highest on the Enhanced Fujita scale. Says Moore, the storm packed winds between 166 and 200 miles per hour.

The full report is still due around 3 p.m.

Original item posted at 6:59 a.m.: Early reports put the number of tornadoes that struck North Texas overnight at 10, but for now that’s just an estimate, says the National Weather Service, which will not be able to confirm that number until investigators reach Hood, Johnson, Ellis and Montague Counties and others impacted by the supercells.

“We know Hood County and Johnson County and Montague County for sure,” says Steve Fano, a meteorologist with the NWS in Fort Worth. “Ellis we’re waiting on, and we may also have one in Wise, and, for now, we’re not sure of the others. We’ll be out to access the situation this morning.”

Fano says three teams will be deployed to the areas impacted; they leave at 8:30 a.m. Usually, investigators try to determine whether damage was tornadic or caused by straight-line winds. But this time, says Fano, “It’ll be more cut-and-dried.” They’ll also measure the strength of the tornadoes, in part by looking at the damage as well as the structural integrity of what was impacted.

Our Tom Fox caught the back of the tornado-producing storm as it passed State Highway 67 west of Cleburne Wednesday night.

Investigators will also look at the path of the damage left in the storms’ wake: “how wide it is, how long the tornado was on the ground, did it lift and come back down. And they’ll talk with emergency officials and eyewitnesses.”

A report, Fano says, will be issued at 3 p.m. today.

Wednesday afternoon, forecasters weren’t predicting tornadoes: When the severe thunderstorm warning was issued for much of North Texas at 3:30 p.m. yesterday, a NWS meteorologist said it would be “too cool” for tornadic activity. The prediction was for spotty but heavy storms with a chance of hail that could grow to the size of golf balls.

Fano says the tornado that sprang up in Montague County two hours later wasn’t much of a surprise: Forecasters had warned of severe weather to the northwest of Dallas-Fort Worth, where it was much warmer than it had been closer to Dallas-Fort Worth, which had just seen some heavy rain.

Says Fano, the ingredients were in place for strong storms, but the turning point came when a trough of low pressure north and west stretching from Oklahoma to Abilene strengthened during the late afternoon and early evening hours dropped further south than initially expected.

“The surface winds became a lot more southeasterly,” says Fano, “and then you had winds from the west higher up. As you get closer to the surface they’re turning counterclockwise. When you hear us talk about low-level wind shear, that’s what we’re talking about — and that’s an important ingredient in creating a tornado. That was the key factor in this transitioning from more of a hail and straight-line threat to multiple supercell storms with tornadoes.”

There was one other factor: The NWS had initially anticipated North Texas would get more rain Wednesday morning, which would have stabilized the air in advance of the sinking trough. But that didn’t happen: Most folks saw nothing — maybe a sprinkle or two.

“And that also changed our thinking,” says Fano. “When it comes to surface observations, we don’t have a dense enough network to see these things evolve as quickly as we’d like to. The computer models can’t resolve it. Us doing analysis hour by hour, only then it become apparent we’re transitioning. Sever weather can change modes just like that — and it does often.”

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