Saturday’s death toll eclipsed the Dallas tornado of April 2, 1957, which killed 10.
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At least eight people are already dead due to severe rain and flooding in the state.
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On the other side of the state, the Department of Public Safety in Amarillo strongly discouraged travel throughout the entire Texas Panhandle – a 26-county area covering almost 26,000 square miles – because blowing and drifting snow had made the roads impassable.
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He said he heard loud banging on his locked bedroom door around 4:15 a.m. and that his son said, “You’re not going to scare me”. He said he heard gunshots as he made his way down from the second floor and then saw his son and Ms Jones lying in the foyer.
According to Weather.com, the tornado that hit Garland, Texas on Saturday was classified as an E4, the second strongest rating on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. And weather experts fear that the worst of the severe winter weather isn’t over yet. They posted this video to their Youtube and Facebook channels late on Saturday.
The National Weather Service in Dallas-Fort Worth determined Sunday that the destruction left behind in hard-hit Garland was the work of an EF-4 tornado.
Police said the deaths happened during tornado-related traffic accidents near Interstate 30 and the George Bush Turnpike, the Dallas Morning News reported, saying some of the bodies were found in cars while others were catapulted from the scene.
North Texas could see a mix of rain and snow Sunday night into Monday, but don’t expect much of the snow to stick to the ground since temperatures will stay above freezing. Twisters blew through Ovilla, Rowlett and Garland as the unsafe weather moved through North Texas, according to KDFW. Garland Police Lt. Pedro Barineau called it “total devastation”.
“It’s going to be quite risky for anyone exposed to these elements”, Rubin-Oster told the AP.
Snow fell as the Sun Bowl college football game between Miami and Washington State Saturday afternoon in the Mexican border city of in El Paso, which is forecast to get 152 to 203 millimetres of snow from the storm.
The Texas panhandle was under a blizzard warning along with eastern New Mexico and parts of Oklahoma.
Regional reports say 90,000 residents of the Paraguayan capital, Asuncion, had been evacuated by Saturday evening – many of them families living in sub-standard housing near the Paraguay River. Cars that had been in driveways ended up inside homes after the tornado barreled through, witnesses said. The rushing water separated the family as they got out of the vehicle, he said. In a statement, Flynn said preliminary damage estimates show 241 homes were destroyed or severely damaged.
Days of tumultuous weather have led to 36 deaths overall – those in Texas, plus five in IL, one in Missouri and 19 in the Southeast.
At least 11 people were killed in the Dallas area from a storm system packing torrential rains and unleashing a string of tornadoes that toppled homes, cut power lines and snarled transport for people returning from the Christmas holidays.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in Austin declared a disaster in Dallas County, which covers Garland; Rockwall County, which covers Rowlett; and Collin and Ellis counties. The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said on Friday that two people were still missing.
At least one church in the Dallas area was destroyed with its pastor still inside it.
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Unseasonable warm temperatures will continue in the northeast until January, Duffey said.
