The storms came on the heels of tornadoes that hit two days before Christmas, killing at least 18 people, including 10 in Mississippi.
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It is understood they were killed when their vehicles were blown off the road in the freak storm which has ravished southern parts of the US.
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The tornado damaged 403 homes over a seven-county area in the state, Flynn said. The weather service bureau said that that tornado in Garland was an EF-4, second on the damage scale used by meteorologists. Late Saturday, one death was reported in Alabama.
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins declared Garland a disaster within minutes of seeing the destruction.
An EF-2 tornado struck Copeville, northeast of Dallas, the National Weather Service said.
Three other people died in Collin County, about 45 miles northeast of Dallas, according to sheriff’s deputy Chris Havey, although the circumstances were not immediately clear.
Greg Abbott is warning that the number of victims from a deadly outbreak of storms and tornadoes in the Dallas area could still rise. The National Weather Service says Texas tornadoes this time of year are unusual.
“A variety of risky weather conditions will continue across the middle of the country through yesterday”, it said.
In the hardest-hit Dallas suburb of Garland, authorities confirmed eight fatalities after a tornado packing winds of up to 200 miles per hour bore down on the city.
Three adults and two children died after their vehicle was swept into a stream swollen by heavy rains as they were trying to traverse a low-water crossing area Saturday in southern IL, according to Marion County Coroner Troy Cannon. “Then we went across the hall to make sure everyone was OK”.
Meanwhile, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin declared a state of emergency as there were blizzard conditions and an ice storm warning out west and flood warnings in the east, where one community had received 9 inches of rain.
He urged caution as more extreme weather is expected in Texas, and several other parts of the United States.
In nearby MS, where Governor Phil Bryant declared a state of emergency to deal with flooding, “severe storms” are forecast through Monday, the state Emergency Management Agency said.
A pet German Shepherd walks in a neighborhood blanketed in snow in Edgewood, New Mexico, Sunday, December 27, 2015.
Much of Arkansas was under a hazardous weather outlook, with some parts of the state expected to be deluged with up to 6 inches (15 cm) of rain on Sunday.
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Tornadoes swept through the Dallas area after dark on Saturday evening causing significant damage while a blizzard was blanketing parts of New Mexico and West Texas with snow, the latest in the nation’s freakish winter weather pattern that sent temperatures plunging to near zero wind chill in the western Plains even as numerous record highs are forecast for the eastern U.S.
