worth metroplex which would sound familiar to a national audience here. but these areas, there is a saying in texas. it takes you 45 minutes to get to your mailbox. these are wide counties. a wide area, if you will, that we re talking about here. mr. mayor, you ve not seen any damage so far in your county. no, we have not. and we ve had all of our crews have been out going around the city and they have not spotted any. thank you so much. the mayor of joshua county again in north texas. carl, if you re still there. you hear the mayor of that county saying that there were reports of suspected, at least, one or two or three, i believe, was his count of tornadoes, unconfirmed. but a lot of volatile activity. they ve seen extremely warm weather in this area over the last few days. yeah, it has been very warm indeed. that s a part of what is driving these storms. there is no shortage of low level warmth and humidity. that s what you need to get the big updrafts. the tremendous thunders
tornadoes here in the operations center. we re monitoring the television broadcast. we re also monitoring our storm watchers are out on the field on the radio. what kind of information are you getting from the storm watchers? they re trying to keep in contact. visual contact with the tornadoes on the ground. how many are being reported on the ground? suspected tornadoes? right now, we ve got one confirm tornado on the ground in arlington, around 820 and i-20. i believe that s what we re looking at right now. near i-20. you have several watches in effect, as i understand. tarrant county, johnson county. i believe also, joshua. a number of other places. what is happening where you are? we have a tornado warning. you can see, mark, you cannot see our screen but we visibly see debris flying through the
i have on the phone, thank you, carl, may i please ask you to stick around. i have joe holleran. are you there? yes, i am. what can you tell me is happening in joshua county? about 30 minutes ago, we had one tornado which touched down. we ve had three or four others that dropped down. we ve had the local schools have gone into a lockdown but we have just lifted those. we re getting in the truck now and starting to drive around the area to see if we can spot any damage. so far we ve not had any reports of damage within the city limits of joshua. you were telling me the kids at the schools in your county had been placed on lockdown. that has been lifted since? in joshua, it has. my daughter is a teacher just north of here and she said she is still in lockdown there. my nephew is not very far from there. for those who don t know this area, we re about north texas. the region of the dallas/ft.
this is what they re seeing on the ground. we ve got a number of calls in, people trying to find out the weather conditions and if schools are being, taking action. nonetheless, this is a tornado warning right outside of tarrant county. that would be ft. worth. this is johnson county. a number of watches and warnings in place throughout north texas. in fact, most of north texas under a tornado watchful this is some of the ominous video coming in out of johnson county, right outside of ft. worth. some of the small towns in that area, burleson, texas. joshua county also. now we re hearing that a tornado is on the ground in south dallas. this is the report we re getting in right now. tornado watch for most of north texas. we re getting unconfirmed, i should stress, unconfirmed reports that there is a tornado on the ground in south dallas, or south of dallas. let me get a distinction.