Garland police believed that “winds from a tornado that passed through” the town late on Saturday were the cause of the accidents, Melinda Urbina from the Dallas County Sheriff’s office told the BBC.
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Two deaths attributable to weather were reported Saturday in MS: two people who have been missing since Wednesday, bringing that state’s toll to 10.
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In the case of all five deaths reported in Garland, people were blown off the road, presumably after getting caught in the storm while driving.
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Lt. Sean Edwards, a Birmingham police spokesman, said trees are down and people were trapped inside damaged houses, adding that several people were taken to hospitals for treatment of minor injuries, but further details were not immediately available.
Most local weather reports are, however, now indicating that tornado warnings are no longer in effect. Many roads and even homes are flooded, Monroe County Sheriff Cecil Cantrell said.
Folks are preparing for blizzard conditions in Lubbock, where heavy, blowing snow is in the forecast for late Saturday night through Sunday night.
The deaths in Dallas come as much of the south-central region of the U.S. is hit by severe weather.
More extreme weather is forecast for Sunday, with an arctic cold front bringing a nasty mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain from west Texas to New Mexico.
Eleven people have been confirmed dead from the round of tornadoes that tore through North Texas on Saturday night.
Garland resident Pat McMillian said the tornado left neighborhoods in darkness.
Mississippi Emergency Management Agency spokesman Greg Flynn confirms two bodies were found Saturday morning in Benton County.
Police said the death toll was a preliminary figure.
Multiple tornadoes were reported ripping through northern Texas Saturday evening, destroying homes and causing damage as the region also prepared for a “historic” blizzard, local media reported.
Lightning illuminates a house after a tornado touched down in Jefferson County, Ala., damaging several houses, Friday, Dec. 25, 2015, in Birmingham, Ala.
The tornado damaged 403 homes over a seven-county area in the state, Flynn said.
Mr Thompson said weather systems as violent and varied as those pummelling the South were “more typical of something that you would see in the fall and in the spring” than in the middle of winter.
Southern states were still cleaning up from tornadoes earlier this week that killed at least 15 people in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi.
The category of each tornado has not yet been determined, but one of the massive storms was captured in video footage silhouetted by flashes of light.
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 6 to 8 inches of snow from the storm.
At least 30,000 people were reportedly without power, and there were reports of burst gas lines.
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Information for this article was contributed by Nomaan Merchant Chevel Johnson, Jonathan Landrum, Dylan Lovan and staff members of The Associated Press, staff members of Arkansas Online and by The Dallas Morning News.
