Powerful storms killed at least 15 people, injured hundreds and left a wide trail of destruction Sunday across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas after obliterating homes and destroying a truck stop where dozens sought shelter in a restroom during the latest deadly weather to strike the central U.S, according to DW. . Weather forecasters warned of more severe weather and the National Weather Service has issued dozens of tornado warnings for cities and towns in the region…
Tornadoes churned through Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma killing at least 15 people. Forecasters warn of more severe weather.
Powerful storms in the central United States have killed at least 15 people and caused widespread damage to communities in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas.
National Weather Service has issued dozens of tornado warnings for cities and towns in the region.
In Texas, Ray Sappington, the sheriff of Cooke County, said that at least seven people were killed when a powerful tornado hit communities in the north central part of the state, near the border with Oklahoma on Saturday.
Two children, aged 2 and 5 years old, were among the dead, Sappington told the Reuters news agency.
On Sunday, officials were getting to grips with the scale of the disaster and conducting search and rescue operations.
Sappington said that a number of trailer homes in the hardest-hit areas were “completely gone” while others had been badly damaged.
Multiple people had to be taken to hospitals by ambulance and helicopter in Denton County, Texas, north of Dallas.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Sunday said that around 100 people had been injured and more than 200 homes and structures destroyed.
“The hopes and dreams of Texas families and small businesses have literally been crushed by storm after storm,” said Abbott, whose state has experienced successive bouts of severe weather.
