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Gabby Hayes

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Tue May 21, 2013, 06:36 AM May 2013

May Lies. Watch the Skies. Ominous Weather Advisories Hoisted over Texas [View all]

The birds are unusually quiet this morning in Austin and the sky has a green hue.

Excerpt from the Austin-San Antonio NWS forecast for South-Central Texas

May 21 -- "...EXTREMELY UNSTABLE AIR MASS POISED TO ERUPT IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BY LATE AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING..."

Excerpt from the Dallas-Ft. Worth NWS forecast for North Central Texas:

May 21 -- "THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE FREQUENT LIGHTNING...HAIL LARGER THAN
TWO INCHES IN DIAMETER...AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE TORNADO THREAT
WILL INCREASE DURING THE DAY...WITH STRONG LONG TRACK TORNADOES A
POSSIBILITY.
BY MID AFTERNOON THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO EVOLVE
INTO A SQUALL LINE...INCREASING THE DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WIND
POTENTIAL. THE SQUALL LINE SHOULD EXIT THE SOUTHEASTERN COUNTIES
BY LATE EVENING."

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