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Satellite Saw Deadly Tornado Minutes Before It Hit Texas Town
This image was taken right before a huge tornado hit the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, killing at least six people.
Last night, a savage weather system with strange properties – one witness described it as "bizarre" because its winds madly shifted directions – visited the towns surrounding Dallas/Fort Worth. Meteorologists have made a preliminary tally of 10 tornadoes spun out by the storm, a furious sky-lashing that killed at least six people and left others still missing.
Up in the silence of space, a U.S. government satellite watched the monster system as it moved over north Texas. The GOES-East spacecraft captured the above image around 7:45 p.m. – 21 minutes before the storm dropped a large twister on Granbury, which is located 40 miles southwest of Fort Worth. Here's a closer look: