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Tornadoes, wild weather slamming Texas
At least 41 people were killed across seven states since Wednesday following days of severe weather, including flash floods in IL and tornadoes in Texas.
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The National Weather Service in Dallas-Fort Worth determined Sunday that the destruction left behind in hard-hit Garland was the work of an EF-4 tornado.
Six people died in flash floods on rural Missouri roads overnight, Pulaski County Sheriff Ron Long said Sunday, as a result of the same storm system that hit Texas.
Four people have died after severe storms spawned several tornadoes Saturday afternoon and evening in North Texas, officials tell NBC 5. Residents in Lubbock and Amarillo prepared for a storm expected to begin Saturday night.
“This is a huge impact on our community and we’re all suffering”, he said. The National Weather Service said the Dallas area was under a tornado warning Saturday.
Police said the deaths in Garland happened during tornado-related traffic accidents near Interstate 30 and the George Bush Turnpike, the Dallas Morning News reported, saying some of the bodies were found in cars while others were catapulted from the scene.
At least 600 homes were damaged in Garland and more than 100 were impacted farther to the south in Ellis County.
Police spokesman Fred Duran says hotels along I-40 were full and had to turn people away.
Twenty-three people were injured and 39 homes were “totally destroyed”, City Manager Brian Funderburk said today.
Dale Vermurlen lived in a Rowlett neighborhood that sustained heavy damage.
Ladarren Phillips surveys tornado damage to a house on Rising Star Road in Holly Springs, Miss., Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015.
“The wind was blowing on the door, I was trying to hold it. It was kind of tough because you’re supposed to…I felt helpless. I said ‘OK this could be it boys'”. In some instances, it looked like homes had been picked up and set back down in a big pile. On one side of a street, windows were blown out, on the other side of the street, the homes were destroyed. 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.
AccuWeather Meteorologist Brett Rathbun said ice could create travel headaches into Monday from west-central Texas to central Oklahoma, central Kansas, southeastern Nebraska and southwestern Iowa.
Earlier this week, the Weather Channel reported that more than 20 tornadoes touched down, with MS experiencing the heaviest effects.
Eleven people are reported to have been killed in tornadoes in Texas, raising the death toll to 29 in a week of storms across several USA states.
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Three Seventh-day Adventist families lost their homes in tornadoes that roared through part of the US state of Texas late Saturday, killing at least 11 people. It could rise to 41 feet Saturday evening, Coffee County Emergency Management Director Larry Walker said.