This weather thing has taken front page attention ... and from gaming sources as well.
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Warning in Garland and Mesquite ... twitter reported touchdown in Garland

ID software is in mesquite ... very close.

http://www.wfaa.com/video?id=139367478&sec=553117
http://www.weather.com/tv/tvshows/Livestream
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/tornado-emergency-in-dallas-ft-worth-area-two-confirmed-tornadoes/2012/04/03/gIQAMsnRtS_blog.html

Seems like multiple touchdowns , DFW has major one and others are individual smaller ones but still.

http://shrani.si/f/L/za/3KYjFZFy/id-tornado.jpg


Google Earth shows center of the individual storm tornado cloud directly on top id software.


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No responses from ID software twitter about this yet.

Currently the storm moved away from mesquite but another one from arglinton is going up to that same direction.


EDIT:

Seems like the whole storm is going a bit up just missing mesquite from mention on the radar so it's plano and garland now (arglinton is demolished - sixflags reports massive damage)

But id software is on the freaking edge of the whole thing ... it's on the northest end of mesquite - at the road away from garland imo (im just looking at map i have no real idea)

Looks like God wants to know where id Studio and all the Rage DLC is.

I live in Alvin. about an hour away from Houston. i hope everyone at ID is okay.

My friends sister is driving to Dallas right now, she posted on FB that the sirens were going off and she's headed into the storm.

I hope everyone stays safe. Here in Northern California, I have been through a couple tornado warnings but they were just measly funnel clouds forming. I cannot imagine the scare in Texas right now.

http://edition.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=2

Latest weather image reports mesquite is all in the red alert!

http://shrani.si/f/1w/hJ/490ANEM0/idtornadomesquitered.jpg


Thank god they're not in the purple area.

http://shrani.si/f/3U/l1/UruP82i/tornadomissid.jpg

Appears to be evaded.

As expected it was always on the edge of it ...


However it started quite close but then it moved away ... they probably could see the tornado to their southeast from the offices since the building is higher than sorrounding stuff.

It's his way of saying "Hurry up! Or else..!".

Jesus, I should have skipped to the bottom of this thread... I was worried the whole way down that bloody id had been torn apart. It's a relief to hear everyone there is ok, maybe a day or two break to sort of relax a bit would be a good idea.

It's passed now. Arlington, Forney, and Lancaster have substantial damage, along with Kennedale a few other places. A tornado apparently touched down about a mile from my house, but all I really got was one tough thunderstorm. It's been an eventful afternoon here, that's for sure. Luckily, I haven't heard of anything other than just property damage.

We had some bad storms here (2 hours north of Dallas) all day but nothing as bad as they had it. I got woken up at 3am and couldn't get back to sleep from some insane lightning and there was a lot of heavy rain but other than that no big deal. Glad people seemed to make it through down there (at least no deaths that I heard of). My Clear internet has been constantly disconnecting and receiving a very weak signal (when it's usually full bars) so I'm not sure if that's a result of the storms or what. Either way at least everyone's safe.

My uncle lives in Dallas. He's fine, although he posted an impressive photo he took of one of the tornadoes, and a friend's car was destroyed by hail.

After some of the deadly tornadoes this season I'm astonished there were no fatalities from this storm system.

So many tornados last year and so far this year hasn't seemed to be any lighter. Hope everyone near, in or have family in texas are ok. I am definitely surprised that there hasn't been any reports of deaths so far.

All I can say is, ouch!

The helicopter video of the truck trailers that were thrown is amazing. Those are standard 52 ft. trailers and judging by that measurement, they seem to have been thrown at least 100-200 ft in the air.

http://www.nbcdfw.com/video/#%21/weather/stories/Raw-Video--Tornado-Tosses-Trucks/145994125

Full screen is best naturally.
Wow!

I've actually seen a tornado 1 mile from my house and it was a F4. It's a nerve wreaking experiance to go through----I still don't get the whole "It sounded like a freight train" speech---sounded more like a really big waterfall to me.

I like how whole towns are being hit, and everyone is worried about ID.

We've had a small tornado almost touch down directly on the neighbor's garage. It never fully formed, luckily. Their garage was still ripped up though.

Such is life in Ohio. I'm just glad I don't live in tornado alley.

In fact, for a spell during my childhood we'd get a close call or two every year. But for the past decade it's been mostly quiet. I can't even remember when the last time was we had to retreat downstairs.

Hmm well ... seems like this happens often in america.

Over the years from what i have seen ... i always have this in mind that kind of boggles me even today - no offence:


An advice from the heart, please stop building houses from wood.

Well for most tornadoes, a house made of brick or cement will work. (Most tornadoes are F0-F2 (80-150 mph winds)) but for those occassions we get F3s and F4s which aren't common, but aren't rare either...the brick and cement start to falter. Straight up steel would stand agains those two I'm guessing. But I think an F5 or a strong F4 (anything 230+ mph) even will still level anything in it's path be it brick, wood or steel. Although I'm fairly sure they have something building material wise that can withstand 200+ mph, not entirely sure though.

North America has had extreme weather since prehistoric times. I've personally had at least half a dozen tornadoes fly overhead and one that broke an 80 foot pine tree in half just outside the room I was standing in. The only thing that can withstand those kinds of winds are bomb shelters with several foot thick steel reinforced concrete walls. Watch the photos of the 18 wheeler trucks being thrown into the air a 100 feet and you'll begin to understand.

The surest sign a tornado is nearby is when it starts raining so bad you'd swear you could drown. The tornadoes pick up the same water they throw down as they pass over it and throw it down again in front of themselves like some sort of giant steam cleaning machine.

Yeah rain-wrapped tornadoes are the most dangerous, because you can't entirely tell if they're a tornado all the time and sometimes it just looks like a big mass of rain you're going into and actually it's a tornado. Almost always the rain/hail is in front of the tornado so if you're in a warned area and you're getting hit hard with rain and hail there might be a chance the tornado is going to pass near you or on you or maybe not at all...tornadoes are almost impossible to predict though we do know when conditions are right and what sort of cloudage/storm to look for.

Where I live (southern Indiana) it's almost always either hot and humid or cold and wet. The ecosystem in this area seems to do a remarkably good job of retaining heat, so winter is slow in coming and when the sun shows up for spring in march, we almost always get pretty chaotic weather.

But yeah, this year has been particularly crazy so far. Just a few weeks ago, we got some terrible tornado storms around here that killed several people, demolished many trees and buildings and even ripped a few roads apart. One day during the thick of it a tornado passed directly over our house, but as it hadn't touched down yet we were fortunately spared from the destruction.

I lived in the Ozarks for years. Out there its best to build houses on the side of the hills because the tornadoes tend to skip off the tops and touch down in the valleys. The one tornado that did come close to hitting me was on the top of a hill. I've been through hurricanes, earthquakes, tidal waves, and you name it, but living on flat ground bothers me.