Is Austin Weather As Bad As Fort Worth (Round Rock, Georgetown: houses, tornado)

[booz30]

FORT WORTH HAS ALOT OF SEVERE WEATHER ALWAYS AND IAM TIRED OF WATCHING THE SKY WONDERING IS THERE GOING TO BE A TORNADO JUST WONDERING IF ROUND ROCK OR AUSTIN IS THAT BAD CAN ANY BODY HELP ME

[jwb123]

Well, we get major thunderstorms and rain - but there hasn't been a tornado touch down in Round Rock/Austin in something like 40+ yrs I read once.

I think Georgetown, and some outer laying cities have though.

[booz30]

what about ice storms, hail,snow. so i guess theres no tornado sirens in austin or is there

[HappyTexan]

We've had Tornados touch down here within the last 10 years.

Cedar Park is the last one I recall where the roof to Albertson's blew off.
And then we have those straight line winds which are just as damaging as a Tornado.

Link to the 1997 Tornado:
Central Texas tornado outbreak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[jwb123]

Cedar Park isn't RR or Austin.

[mark311]

It's definitely something to be prepared for. I actually live in Round Rock, but I am less than 6 miles away from where that Albertson's use to be that was hit by that tornado.

If you watch Channel 8 News during any severe weather storm, you'll probably think that the world is ending, but it normally turns out to be just heavy rain. The TV weather-people will act like the Austin area is flooding everywhere, when really they're reporting about weather two counties away.

[Trainwreck20]

On the grand scale of things, Austin weather is probably marginally less severe than Fr. Worth. FW is a little deeper into Torndao Alley than Austin, but both have tornados. Severe thunderstorms hit both, probably with a fairly similar frequency (maybe a few more in FW). There will be more ice/snow in FW than in Austin, so that would be the only really noticeable difference, but it is not like there is a lot of ice/snow in either location.

[booz30]

what about lightning hitting houses it seems like it happens in every storm in fort worth does it happened alot in round rock? are there tornado sirens because those things freak me out thanks

[Trainwreck20]

No sirens that I know of. There are occasional lightning strikes on houses; however, IIRc, they tend to be in the hill areas, not RR.

[love roses]

Jarrell would be the closest place near Austin that is in Tornado Alley that I still worry about getting one. I'm in Hutto, which is abt. 2 towns away from Jarrell (going South). We've had some sketchy looking weather before, but nothing has happened. RR would probably be pretty safe. No tornado sirens out this way. I know what you mean about them being freaky. When we lived in Denver, before we lived downtown, we lived in an area that was a little east of the city. There were tornado sirens just down the greenbelt. We were close to tornado alley there too. I thought it was armageddon the first time I ever heard those things go off! Especially when the recorded computer voice came on giving directions!