Passengers waiting for flights at Love Field, a major Dallas airport, were moved away from windows during the storm.
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The service has issued tornado watches and warnings for areas in that state, as well as in parts of Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Mississippi. Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia earlier took similar measures.
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CBS Dallas reports at least 11 tornadoes are believed to have touched down in Dallas area Saturday.
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The rare December twisters that flattened homes and caused chaos on highways raised the death toll from days of deadly weather across the South to at least 28.
“The little boy was hanging on to the back of the auto”, Tyler said Saturday.
Local officials in a town outside Dallas sent out 4 alerts in the minutes before the tornadoes hit, warning people to take cover.
There was also damage to a church om Ovilla and homes in DeSoto, Jenkins said.
Weather service meteorologist Matt Bishop in the Fort Worth office said the tornado outbreak at this time of the year for North Texas occurs “from time to time… but it’s certainly not something that happens regularly”.
Martinez activated the National Guard for disaster assistance, and urged residents to stay off the roads.
“It’s going to be quite unsafe for anyone exposed to these elements”, Rubin-Oster said.
In Missouri, where Gov. Jay Nixon counted eight flood-related fatalities by Sunday afternoon and where he declared a state of emergency, residents were told to expect the same patchwork of potentially devastating weather: flooding and heavy rain were anticipated in the central and southern sections of the state, while in the north they could expect snow and freezing rain.
The agency also reported 10 storm-related deaths. At least 12 people were killed and another is missing after vehicles were swept off roads by floodwaters in separate incidents in both states, according to officials. Michael Downard stands outside his house in Rowlett, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015, the morning after it was struck by a tornado.
An arctic cold front will swoop down to the Rio Grande area of west Texas, bringing a nasty mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain from there to New Mexico on Saturday and Sunday, forecasters predicted.
The National Weather Service warned of a “tornadic supercell” moving toward downtown Dallas on Saturday evening and there were reports of debris falling from the sky onto a highway in nearby DeSoto. The blizzard conditions could affect people from New Mexico toward the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles, with 1.2 million under a blizzard warning. As of late Sunday morning, there were at least 8,000 power outages around the state, with the most being in Lawton, about 90 miles southwest of Oklahoma City.
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Conditions are especially perilous in places unused to heavy snowfall such as New Mexico, where urban areas lack snow removal equipment, and few drivers are experienced at driving safely in snow and ice.
