The National Weather service said five tornadoes were reported in Texas and one in Oklahoma on Saturday.
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Many in Texas associate tornadoes with spring weather, and nearly 63 percent of tornadoes hit the state in April, May and June, according to the Texas Almanac. Havey said officials don’t expect the death toll to rise, but they are sifting through rubble and making sure no victims were overlooked.
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“The storms that went through last night have left many families homeless or with home damage”, Dennis Austin, pastor of the Joshua Seventh-day Adventist Church, said in an appeal circulated on Facebook.
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A second tornado was confirmed in the town of Rowlett, an EF-3 with winds up to 266 km/h.
Garland police believed that tornado-strength winds late on Saturday were the cause of auto accidents, said Melinda Urbina from the Dallas County Sheriff’s office.
“All of New Mexico can get a break from the storm”, Luckett said. “All of the street lights and highway lights are out”.
“I don’t declare local disasters lightly”, Jenkins said.
In Alabama, heavy flooding continued Sunday following several days of heavy rain that began on Thursday.
The storm dumped rare heavy snow in eastern New Mexico, a situation Governor Susana Martinez described as “dire”.
(AP Photo/Butch Dill). Birmingham firefighters work a scene after a tornado touched down in Jefferson County, Ala., damaging several houses, Friday, Dec. 25, 2015, in Birmingham, Ala.
Dale Vermurlen lived in a Rowlett neighborhood that sustained heavy damage.
The twisters were accompanied by wind, torrential rain and hail. The combination of rain-filled clouds and plummeting temperatures meant a “life-threatening and crippling blizzard” was headed toward the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, the weather service said. Twenty-three people were injured and 39 homes were “totally destroyed”, City Manager Brian Funderburk said today.
It was here that authorities confirmed eight fatalities, adding that 15 people were taken to hospital with injuries. Flash flood and tornado warnings extended into Saturday night for the region, according to the weather service. Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant and Georgia counterpart Nathan also declared states of emergency in counties affected by the weather.
According to the National Weather Service, a major winter storm system will continue to bring freezing conditions to areas spanning from the Rocky Mountains to the Midwest through at least Tuesday. The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency said Saturday that authorities were monitoring areas for possible flooding.
Flood warnings and advisories also remained in effect in parts of Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky and other areas in the southeast.
Separately, a southern California brush fire that forced the closure of part of two major highways was mostly under control.
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The auto was traveling over a low-water crossing that normally has very little water trickling across the road, if any at all, Cannon said.
