This early round is going south or east of us. Looks like there might be more further away. I hope you all are safe.

I think the next one is coming down from Osage county.

Is everyone okay now? Everything has moved well east of us.

We had a Tornado Warning and spent some time sitting in the tornado shelter, but other than a lot of hail, torrential rainfall (about 1.3" fell in 15-20 minutes), a power outage that lasted almost 4 hours because some power poles broke in the storm and had to be replaced....well, nothing really happened here. The hail mostly was pea to maybe dime or nickle-sized. I was in the tornado shelter alone from right after they issued the warning, so I missed the bigger hail. As the storm got worse, Tim finally came to the shelter and we had bigger hail after that. You could hear it pounding away on the shelter's steel door. Then we had a very sudden wind shift and that sent Chris out to join us in the shelter. I don't know why the men don't just immediately go to the shelter like I do as soon as the warning is issued, but they are stubborn and think they'll just wait it out indoors until the weather scares them into making a run for the shelter.

Chris went out in his truck after the rain stopped and moved some trees and limbs out of the road while he was out. He saw some scattered wind damage and hail damage around. He said that during the time we were in the shelter and he was not, he saw a very limited number of golf ball to tennis ball sized hail mixed in with the smaller hail, but not very much of it. He did discover it had cracked/chipped his windshield when he went out and got in his truck.

I think the Ada area got hit pretty hard by large hail and possibly a tornado. Other than that, most of southcentral OK seemed to have mostly wind, rain (heavy in some areas) and hail in a wide range of sizes.

Oh, and there was a lot of lightning and a lot of lightning strikes. When Tim went out to check our property, he ran into neighbors who were headed out to see if all their cattle had survived the lightning strikes.

This was our first Tornado Warning of the year. I hope it will be our last, but that's not very likely. At least we got some decent rainfall out of this, and I don't expect to find much damage in the garden tomorrow. I had removed anything loose that might blow around and cause damage, and most of the plants, except for flowers in some of the borders, were covered.

To our south in Texas, especially in the Denton to Frisco area, there was a lot of hail....in some of the same areas that had 2 massive hailstorms cause damage about a year ago. I was trying to watch their weather and ours all at the same time. It was crazy seeing all the reports of big hail.

Dawn - I'm glad you are safe and escaped with minimal damage. I saw the reports on the weather channel this morning of baseball to softball sized hail in the Ada and Frisco areas but wasn't quite sure how close that was to you.

I need to have my roof inspected. I keep seeing more roofing company signs in neighbor's yards from the February 28 hail storm we had.

We're sort of in between Frisco and Ada, but both are well east of I35, Lone Jack, and we are a bit west of it. I was watching the radar like a hawk. At about this time last year, the same places from Denton to Frisco had horrible hail storms (widespread baseball to softball sized and also tennis ball sized sort of along the edges of the bigger hail) about two weeks apart. So very many homes, cars, etc. were just demolished....and so was a lot of landscaping, gardens, etc. Ada's bigger worry was the storm that put down several funnel clouds, but I've only heard of a couple of structures being damaged. Maybe the news of more damage just isn't getting out yet. While the funnels were the feared thing that sent folks scurrying for shelter, it seems like a lot of the actual damage was more from wind and hail. Our electric co-op also has a lot of customers in the Ada area. We had about 100 homes without electricity here while they replaced poles that snapped in half, but Ada had closer to 600 when I checked the co-op's webpage outage map last night. We have a great electric co-op and I know the linemen were out working hard to restore power just as soon as the lightning was far enough away that it was safe for them to be out there. I appreciate them so much.

Frisco is one of my favorite towns. It used to be a small quiet country town but has grown at a huge rate very quickly and has become so big that some folks now joke that Frisco is the big city and Dallas is the suburb. (Dallas and Dallasites don't care for this joke at all.) Even though Frisco is big and very developed, I still like it. Somehow the city leaders have worked to keep the same level of friendliness that you have in a small town, and the developers have worked hard with landscaping and such to make all the concrete development more appealing. When I want a day of shopping (which is rare) for something other than groceries and garden supplies, Frisco is my top choice of places to go. Ada is much smaller---maybe 6,000 or 7,000 people and still very rural/semi-rural. I've only been there a couple of times. I like it fine. The people there are great. I hope they can bounce back quickly from all the storm damage.

I have to sing the praises of modern batteries. We were careful to have all our phones and laptop/tablet batteries charged fully before the storm hit, so even though we lost power we were not completely cut off from the world. We still were able to communicate by phone and text message, and had Facebook on and off. The internet was on and off, but off for good after the power died, and the storm knocked out the satellite TV long before the actual storm conditions arrived here. Even our fire radios were quiet for quite a while (I'm guessing they may have had a power issue or a repeater issue in town for a bit) but then they came back to life. Even without the radios we could communicate with other first responders via the GroupMe app on our cell phones. I remember the old days when you went to the tornado shelter with your flashlight and that was about it. Now we can take our cell phones, laptops, fire radios, etc. and not feel quite so cut off from civilization, and it is so much better than way.

The images of car windshields and back windows completely demolished by hail are just stunning. I know we see photos like that every year---and not just in TX and OK but also from many other states, and yet, seeing them shocks me every time. The power of Mother Nature in raging thunderstorms and tornadoes is awesome indeed.

We are in the Enhanced risk area again for tomorrow unless something changes. We had been in the Enhanced risk area yesterday but then they upgraded us to Moderate risk yesterday morning, so we did expect trouble. The best thing I can say is that maybe the rain will make us green up more quickly and cause a corresponding drop in the fire activity.

Stay safe, everyone. This week's weather isn't looking real friendly.

Dawn I'm sad that you experienced that shake-up. I can hear it in your 'voice'. You're right that it doesn't matter how familiar we are with this type of weather when it happens it's just gosh-awful and rippled with anxiety.

Bon, You know, it was the power outage. We almost never get them here, so to have it happen at the exact second the weather radio (which has a backup battery in it) was broadcasting the tornado warning was just freaky. I was glad when it was over.

Dawn