Sheriff’s Deputy Chris Havey gave no other details of the deaths. The damage stretched over about a 40-mile-long area from 20 miles south of Dallas to northeast of the city.
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Two people are missing in the floodwaters, he said.
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The AP reported that tornadoes occurred in Ellis County, an area about 30 miles south of Dallas.
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A Garland police spokesman said there are no active rescues underway, but first responders are searching damaged homes for anyone that might be trapped.
A tornado touched down in Birmingham on Friday evening, but damage was limited.
Bridges and roads in certain areas are completely impassable.
One person died in Arkansas, and dozens of homes were damaged or destroyed. Flights were temporarily halted from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
The Texas tornadoes followed days of tumultuous weather in the Southeast including unusual winter tornadoes that left 18 people dead there over the Christmas holiday period.
The tornado’s trajectory was headed toward downtown Dallas but WFAA television said that it appeared to have lifted off the ground at it moved north.
Contributing to this report are Associated Press writers Maud Beelman in Dallas, Chevel Johnson in New Orleans, Jonathan Landrum in Atlanta, and Dylan Lovan in Louisville.
Passengers waiting for flights at Love Field, a major Dallas airport, were moved away from windows during the storm.
Inmates from an Alabama correctional facility were evacuated as a precaution to potential flooding caused by the recent heavy rainfall.
The Governor made a stop at Elba Elementary School, where a Red Cross shelter has been established to house people displaced by flooding.
In the Southeast, two more deaths linked to weather were reported Saturday in MS, bringing that state’s death toll from severe weather over Christmas to 10.
A copy of the Governor’s State of Emergency can be found here.
Authorities on Saturday recovered the body of a 5-year-old boy who drowned after the auto he was riding in was submerged by floodwaters on Friday, said Coffee County Coroner Robert Preachers.
Unseasonably warm temperatures across the southeastern US this week spawned severe weather blamed for deaths in Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas.
Alabama is under a state of emergency.
The tornado destroyed or damaged 403 homes over a seven-county area, Flynn said.
Brown says while that height was much too for much comfort, so far the levees were holding.
The Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles are bracing for what National Weather Service forecasters are calling a “historic blizzard”. Some parts of the Panhandle could see as many as 14 inches of snow, with sub-zero wind chills and accumulating ice.
“AEMA encourages residents to continue to monitor rains and be prepared to take action from fast rising water in flood prone areas”.
The creek isn’t expected to fall below flood stage until Monday.
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A flood warning was in effect late Saturday afternoon for parts of northern Alabama.
