Meadowlakes city official offers tips to be storm ready

  • Initially, it was thought that it was inconceivable that tornado winds ever reached over 300 miles per hour. However, with an enhanced Doppler radar, meteorologists have estimated winds speeds in several tornadoes over 300 miles per hour, said Meadowlakes City Manager Johnnie Thompson.
    Initially, it was thought that it was inconceivable that tornado winds ever reached over 300 miles per hour. However, with an enhanced Doppler radar, meteorologists have estimated winds speeds in several tornadoes over 300 miles per hour, said Meadowlakes City Manager Johnnie Thompson.
Mother Nature showed its ugly side early this week with the outbreak of several damaging tornadoes (northeast and east of Austin). Fortunately, they were all east of us, and we only received slightly less than a half-inch of rain and wind gusts of around 44 miles per hour. This is among the weather-related events faced in the Texas Hill Country. Being a storm watcher, I can attest that several…

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