Copperas Cove Tornado Pictures

One minute, the skies were sunny and the next, horror came dropping out of the skies on Father's Day. That is what some residents of Copperas Cove saw when a tornado ripped through one neighborhood on the south side of the Cove. The tornado came without much warning. It touched down in several places with most of the damage in the area near Sleepy Hollow Lane and FM 2657. At least 12 homes were damaged and 18 people were forced to find another place to stay. One person was injured by the high winds and debris.

Thanks to one of our NBC 6 Viewers who emailed the WeatherPlus team, I have a couple of pictures to share with you. The pictures show the lowering of the cloud and storm. This is known as a wall cloud and you can clearly see it in both of these pictures. The wall cloud is where the tornado drops out of and touches the ground. In the picture to the left, you can see the wall cloud lowering to the hills in the distance. You can click on any of the pictures to see a bigger image.

If you see breaking weather around Central Texas and have a digital camera, take some pictures and you can email them to me here at weather@kcentv.com . I will be glad to share them on the weather with our viewers and on this blog. If you want to know more about the heavy rain threat for Central Texas, click on the next post for a look.

-Mike