A tornado touched down around 6.45pm (0045 GMT Sunday, 8.45am Malaysian time) in Garland, Texas, city officials said in a statement. They said the heaviest amounts would be over the Ouachita and Ozark mountain regions where at least 10 inches of rain is possible.
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Five tornados were reported in the Dallas area Saturday, causing widespread damage to homes and buildings.
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“I think everyone understands now the gravity of what happened”, Anita Foster, spokeswoman for American Red Cross of North Texas, said on WFAA television.
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Local media said five people in cars were probably blown off a motorway in Garland, near Dallas.
Rowlett is about 20 miles northeast of Dallas.
There were no immediate reports of damage. Officials said the full extent of damage would not be known until Sunday morning.
In Minnesota, four people died in a weather-related vehicle accident in Aitkin County, State Trooper Lt. Tiffani Nielson said.
Search and rescue efforts are ongoing, authorities said. The weather service said flooding would be experienced in southern Huntsville, Decatur, Madison, Hartselle, Muscle Shoals, Russellville, Sheffield, Tuscumbia, Moulton and Red Bay. Photographs posted on Twitter showed multiple cars wrecked. “Next thing you know, I got a skylight in my kitchen”.
There were more than 23,000 customers without power Saturday night, mostly in Dallas and Rockwall counties, utility company Oncor reported on its website.
A man runs as sirens sound during a severe storm over downtown Dallas, Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015, in Dallas.
The National Weather Service in Fort Worth confirmed that a tornado touched down south of Dallas earlier this evening.
Pedro Barineau said that three deaths occurred in vehicles, according to the Associated Press. He said the primary job was to make sure people got found and had a safe place to stay on Saturday night. Horton said the inmates were cooperative and moved to three state correctional facilities in Elmore County. Thousands in the area were placed under flash flood and tornado warnings. In 1990, Elba was almost destroyed when the old levee around the town broke. He says the levees are expected to withstand the river crest.
The levee protecting the city is 44 feet tall.
In the past week, at least 17 deaths in Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas have been linked to the severe weather. Also, two more people have not been accounted for since Wednesday, bringing the number of dead people in the state to 10.
Further details on where or how the bodies were discovered were not immediately available.
Emergency officials issued a voluntary evacuation order for the flood-prone community. Debra Smith, 62, told the Dallas Morning News she took shelter in a bathtub of her third-floor apartment in Garland as the storms rolled through. Brown said that, according to estimates, more than 100 structures appear to have water damage.
In Alabama, Gov. Robert Bentley on Saturday visited weather-damaged areas in Coffee County. A total of 15 people were killed. Residents in Lubbock and Amarillo prepared for an evening storm.
The twisters – accompanied by torrential rain, wind and some hail – were part of a weather system that could produce major flooding from north Texas through eastern Oklahoma, eastern Kansas, western Arkansas and parts of Missouri.
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More than 3 inches of rain fell in many areas, and the NWS reported flooded roads in parts of Franklin County. The area is about 40 miles east of Huntsville.
