Same here. Probably some time later than yours, we got ours. I had my VFD radio out in the garden and was listening to storm spotters out in the Velma area, then in western Carter County, and then finally in Love County. As the big dark wall cloud approached, I finally put up all my tools and watched it track from west of us to the east of us. We are in a low-lying creek hollow surrounded by higher, forested ground, so I couldn't see the rotating storm cells or "tails" trailing down to the ground that had all the spotters so busy. All I could see was the anvil-shaped wall cloud structure and, eventually, the lightning. The hail missed us, but so did most of the rain. However, we had a heck of a lightning show. I watered this afternoon. Hope I won't have to water again for a couple of days, but this wind dries out everything so quickly.

It would be impossible for a tornado to sneak up on us---as if the Weather Radio alert wasn't enough, we get all sorts of text alerts from multiple sources. Our son was in Dallas sending us radar images, and telling us where the storm chasers were in Love County, etc. I ignored his gentle suggestions to go inside and worked in the garden until the wind came back up. It blew hard all day and quieted down briefly as the rotating supercell was approaching Marietta, and then as that storm got close, the wind came back up and I called it quits for the day.

When I could hear one of our firefighting neighbors a couple of miles up the road from us describing the rotating supercell headed into Marietta, I knew it was time to get inside and watch the radar on TV, so I did.

I wish we had gotten the hard rain here that accompanied that wall cloud, but it missed us by a couple of miles. We got rain later from a little storm that came our way from Texas, but not that much of it. We could have used a lot less wind and lightning and a whole lot more rain, but it didn't work out that way.

Heh. By the time the sirens went off, here, the storm was at least ten miles east of us. We didn't get a drop of rain and it is still too windy to water the garden.