Tornados knocked cars off a highway and flattened homes in Texas, raising the death toll to 25 as a string of powerful storms wreaked havoc across much of the southern United States.
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The National Weather Service said more storms are in the forecast: The national Storm Prediction Center said most of Alabama – including Birmingham, Montgomery, Mobile and Huntsville – is at some risk of severe weather on Monday.
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(AP Photo/Butch Dill). Lightning illuminates a house after a tornado touched down in Jefferson County, Ala., damaging several houses, Friday, Dec. 25, 2015, in Birmingham, Ala.
Three other deaths were reported in the Dallas metropolitan area, the fourth most populous metropolis in the USA with about 7 million residents.
Daisy Johnson, 68, said she and her husband rushed along with other relatives to their storm shelter across the street after they heard a tornado was headed their way. Flooding was a far wider problem across the state, with roads washed out and homes damaged from the Gulf Coast to north Alabama, the MS line to east Alabama. Some parts of eastern Missouri have received 6 inches of rain or more over the past three days.
Six people were killed in Tennessee and one in Arkansas. “Mikes and p.a. systems of that magnitude that we know someone would go in and take”, he said.
Duffey said that given the blizzard conditions expected for Saturday, anyone hoping to travel in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas “should try to get going as soon as you can” to beat the storm. The emergency manager of Ellis county south of Dallas, Stephanie Parker, posted on twitter: “We have destroyed and damaged homes”.
Birmingham spokesman April Odom said a Christmas night tornado damaged 72 structures when it touched down in the city.
Operators of the Kerr and Pensacola dams, about 160 miles northeast of Oklahoma City, warned they would have to release large amounts of water due to the storm and area residents might be forced to evacuate their homes. Thirteen people died in flash floods in those two states during the weekend, including four global soldiers training at a military base in Missouri, the Army said. Local news reports said there were 100,000 without power across the state.
Five people were confirmed dead in the Garland, Texas area, outside Dallas, after tornadoes and severe storms tore through the area, Garland Police said.
“‘Many parts of Alabama have experienced excessive rainfall and flooding is a major concern, ‘ Governor Robert Bentley said”.
“A variety of risky weather conditions will continue across the middle of the country through Sunday”, the National Weather Service said at 0630 GMT.
Their preliminary report is that two tornadoes hit the area, one near Coaling in Tuscaloosa County and the other near downtown Birmingham.
Jefferson County Emergency Management Agency Director Jim Coker said early Saturday that four people had been transported to local hospitals with minor injuries.
The unseasonably warm, severe weather also was responsible for seven deaths in MS and one in Arkansas.
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Bishop says 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”.
