Parker County residents have commuted west to Metroplex jobs for decades, with Palo Pinto County denizens more recently joining that commute as Metroplex migrants move west.
Damaging winds, isolated large hail and a few tornadoes could be seen through Tennessee, northeastern Alabama, northwestern Georgia, and southwestern North Carolina.
As the storm pushes northward, it "will produce a swath of heavy snow from the Upper Midwest through New England Friday and Saturday," the National Weather Service said.
A storm system that brought golf ball-sized hail and tornadoes to the South, spurred wind gusts strong enough to topple tractor-trailer trucks, and left more than 300,000 without power continues