Other counties in Texas, southwest Arkansas and northwest Louisiana were under tornado watches until 3 a.m., the Weather Service said. The National Weather Service said that scattered wind gusts up to 75 miles per hour, a couple of tornadoes and isolated hailstorms were possible. for swaths of Texas that included Houston and encompassed a population of more than 7.5 million people. Tornado watches were in effect until 8 a.m. About 50,000 customers across Texas, mostly in the northeastern part of the state, were without electricity, according to, a website that aggregates data from utilities across the United States. Images of destroyed homes, broken trees and streets littered with debris in Jacksboro, about 90 miles northwest of Dallas, circulated widely on social media.Īs of early Tuesday, there were torrential rains in the Austin area, and a flash-flood warning there was in effect until 3:45 a.m. In Elgin, about 25 miles east of the city, a mobile home was tossed onto the top of a building. Tornadic winds in and around Austin, the state capital, overturned an 18-wheeler. Several tornadoes roared through Central Texas beginning in the late afternoon on Monday. Ī storm system capable of producing floods, isolated tornadoes and hailstones the size of Ping-Pong balls was moving eastward across Texas on Tuesday morning, hours after high winds from the system damaged homes, downed trees and ripped a roof off a high school. Go here for the latest as the storm system moves through the South.
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