The Garland fatalities were apparently “blown off the highway by high winds”, Garland police spokesman Mike Hatfield told the Dallas Morning News. It was unclear how the fifth victim died.
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The National Weather Service issued tornado watches for 49 Texas counties Saturday afternoon, including Dallas County.
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“I never thought that I would live through something like this”. “My kids started screaming”. Cars that had been in driveways ended up inside homes after the tornado barreled through, witnesses said.
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The temperatures in east Texas dropped overnight and the area is expected to see more thunderstorms, making things more hard.
NWS meteorologist Brendon Rubin-Oster warned: “It’s going to be quite unsafe for anyone exposed to these elements”.
In Rowlett, there were 23 injuries reported related to Saturday’s storm.
Amid Saturday’s destruction in Texas, the death toll from severe storms earlier this week in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Arkansas rose to 17.
Governor Robert Bentley declared a state of emergency to deal with the flooding just before Christmas Day tornados uprooted trees and tore off rooftops. A 22-year-old man who was in the vehicle remains missing, the station said.
At least 117 homes got overcome by water.
Two families were barricaded in their homes and first responders were trying to get them out.
James Brown of the Coffee County Emergency Management Agency says volunteers distributed sandbags in Elba, where the Pea River was projected to crest Saturday at 43 feet, about a foot below the levees that protect the area.
The tornado damaged 403 homes over a seven-county area in the state, Flynn said. Severe storms are forecast for tonight through Monday as a strong cold front pushes through. Tornadoes are possible, and residents are asked to remain alert.
It is the latest in a succession of freakish winter-weather events across the United States that could include heavy snow and massive flooding from north Texas through eastern Oklahoma, eastern Kansas, western Arkansas and parts of Missouri. Four inches of rain walloped Mobile, Ala., on Wednesday.
At least three people who died were found in vehicles, said Barineau, who also noted that some cars appeared to be thrown from the interstate, though it wasn’t known whether that was the case for the people found in the vehicles.
Mr Harn said there were no active rescues under way, although emergency services were continuing to search houses for anyone trapped since the storms passed. Dallas County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Melinda Urbina told the Associated Press that numerous homes in the area were so damaged that they were likely uninhabitable, and the Red Cross also responded to the scene.
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One bit of good news for the battered Southeast was a forecast for calmer weather on Sunday. Of those, two were confirmed visually, but official surveys will be conducted Sunday, officials said.
