Winter weather may have been mild, but spring is proving to be less so as the Dallas/Fort Worth area was hit with severe weather as multiple tornadoes touched down in the metroplex on Tuesday afternoon.

The school district was sent into a severe weather lockdown for nearly an hour. A tornado warning was issued during the day and was escalated to a tornado watch until 3:15 pm. Students were sent to the interior of the school from about 3:00, where they remained until 3:50, when school was released early and students were sent home.

“My real concern was to make sure everyone got to a safe place as quickly as possible,” assistant principal Chris Mayfield said.

Students were ushered into the interior of the school, mainly in D and E halls.

“When it comes to an interior hallway or a room with no windows, there aren’t a whole lot of those on campus,” Mayfield said. “So it was pretty clear where everyone needed to go.”

This being the school’s first severe weather lockdown, students were concerned for their safety.

“I went to E-hall,” sophomore James Thomas said. “I thought we were going to die.”

With no damage done, it was easy for other students to see the silver lining.

“I was actually kind of excited, because I didn’t have to go take a physics test,” junior Madison McInnis said.

Most sports teams were sent home with the rest of the students as soon as the watch ended, but the girls soccer team was already on their way to their playoff game when the weather hit.

“I was with the soccer team eating our pregame meal at Jason’s Deli before our game,” assistant soccer coach Erin McClanahan said.

The playoff game was obviously cancelled due to the severity of the weather, but the girls could not leave Jason’s Deli immediately.

“We were told not to get back on the bus until we received further notice,” McClanahan said.  “We had to stay at Jason’s Deli for about two hours.”

Besides some minor bus delays and an early release from school, there was no lasting damage done to the school, which is more than can be said for some other schools in the area. Forney had two high schools with severe damage from one of the ten tornadoes that touched down in North Texas yesterday.

However, in accordance to Texas’s usual unpredictability, the sky was clear and the weather beautiful this morning. All signs of severe weather have disappeared from the sky- the only proof left of the storm that knocked out the power of 29,000 people is in the significant water and wind damage in homes and buildings across the metroplex.