Where I'm situated in North Texas I don't get hurricanes proper very often. They are usually declared tropical storms once they're very far over land. Most often the hurricanes or tropcial storms from the gulf stumble into our typical weather coming out of the Northwest, and when they colide it gets noisy and messy. Tornadoes are a typical spinoff. I have on a couple of occasions been in the right place at the right time to see the interesting curved edge of the clouds when those large circular storms move toward and over the area.

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