Many buildings have flattened and transport has been badly affected.
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Five people have been killed along a stretch of Texas highway after severe weather produced at least four tornadoes Saturday evening, police said.
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A very preliminary count indicated 11 tornadoes hit the Dallas area Saturday evening, according to the National Weather Service.
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Three other deaths were reported in the Dallas metro area, the nation’s fourth most populous, with about 7 million people.
Southern states were still cleaning up from tornadoes earlier this week that killed at least 15 people in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi.
Prior to this weekend’s disasters, at least 18 people, including 10 in MS, were killed just two days before Christmas.
Some 600 houses were damaged or destroyed in Garland and 60 people were injured, and authorities are seeking people trapped under the ruins of their homes.
“It’s going to be quite risky for anyone exposed to these elements”, Rubin-Oster said.
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. “Extensive damage has been reported to vehicles, homes, and apartments in the same area”.
The bodies of a man and a woman missing since they were caught in a tornado in Benton County, Mississippi, on Wednesday were found by search and rescue teams on Saturday morning, said Greg Flynn, spokesman for Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.
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. The combination of rain-filled clouds and plummeting temperatures meant a “life-threatening and crippling blizzard” was headed toward the Texas panhandle, the National Weather Service said.
Besides the Texas tornadoes, on Saturday authorities reported flooding in St. Louis, Missouri, as well as in southern OH and Oklahoma.
Snow accumulations of 5 to 13 inches – with drifts to 10 feet – were likely in some areas of west and north Texas, southeast New Mexico and the Oklahoma panhandle.
In neighboring IL, three adults and two children drowned when creek waters swept their vehicle off a bridge in Marion County, the AP reported.
Officials in Altus, in the southwest corner of the state, have asked people to conserve water because of a power outage at a reservoir.
The National Weather Service has confirmed an EF4 tornado hit Garland. Washington, D.C. could see a record daily temperature of 73 degrees Sunday, New York City 65 -which would break a record of more than 50 years -and Orlando, Florida could tie a record of 86 set in 1921. 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 how the people found in the vehicles died.
Nixon urged caution in northern Missouri, where snow, freezing rain and increasing wind gusts were expected to accompany a drop in temperatures.
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City crews clean up the damage caused by a tornado in a neighbourhood in Birmingham, Alabama, December 26, 2015.
