The tornado season in the U.S. continues to generate damage
The tornado season in the U.S. continues to leave injuries and deaths, but, above all, damage in several cities.
This Saturday, May 25, five people died after severe storms generated a tornado warning in several North Texas counties.
So far, major damage is reported in Cooke and Denton counties.
Cooke County Sheriff Ray Sappington confirmed five deaths and 20 injuries in Saturday night’s storm.
Sappington said an AP Travel Center-Shell station on Lone Oak Road next to Interstate 35 south of Valley View was badly affected, as was the Frf Estates area, a neighborhood of mobile homes and RV parks west of the gas station.
The tornado season in the U.S., which is accompanied by thunderstorms, has hit parts of the central and southern United States and caused several injuries, damaged homes, and left thousands of people in the dark.
On the other hand, they generated calls for shelter during the night in northern Texas and Oklahoma.
The tornado season in the U.S. affects some 77 million people in large parts of the nation.
The most affected or at-risk areas start from the central and southern plains and then through the Mississippi and Ohio valleys.
The tornado season in the U.S. continues to generate damage
As such, this entire region is under threat of large hail, damaging winds and ferocious tornadoes this Sunday as multi-day storms disrupt Memorial Day Weekend.
It’s tornado season in the U.S. with storms strengthening; currently, they will move eastward toward the Mississippi Valley.
The Storm Prediction Center warns of “violent tornadoes, extreme hail and widespread wind damage corridors.”
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In northern Denton County, Texas, a possible tornado injured an undetermined number of people, damaged several homes, overturned 18-wheelers.
It also downed trees and knocked down power lines Saturday night, authorities said early Sunday morning.
Officers responded to multiple locations, including “homes and trailer parks,” Dawn Cobb, county spokeswoman, said in a news release.
Storm damage was reported at Ray Roberts Marina in Sanger, which warned residents on social media to immediately leave the docks.
“Multiple victims,” some of whom may be trapped, were reported in Ray Roberts after severe weather hit the area overnight, Denton city fire officials said, adding that medics and other resources were dispatched to the scene.
Damage to several homes was also reported in the neighboring city of Celina, where officials said the city was hit by “apparent tornado activity” on Saturday.
The National Weather Service office in Fort Worth issued several tornado warnings for several North Texas cities this Saturday night.
In that regard, they urge residents to seek shelter immediately as a tornado was spotted heading east between Valley View and Sanger around 10:40 p.m.
Across state lines, damage was also reported throughout Rogers County, Oklahoma, after a possible tornado ripped through the area, downing power lines and trees and damaging homes.
In the city of Claremore, officials said there was “extensive damage” and that power will be out in much of the city “for an extended period.”
More than 200,000 homes and businesses in the Plains and Missouri were without power early Sunday morning, May 26, amid the severe weather, including 96,244 customers in Missouri, 48,309 in Kansas, 30,948 in Texas and 20,678 in Oklahoma, according to poweroutage.us.
Warnings in several states
Tornado watches and warnings were in effect early Sunday morning in parts of Oklahoma and Kansas.
On the other hand, along with severe thunderstorm warnings farther east affected millions of people.
In the midst of the U.S. tornado season, a warning continues over parts of the Mississippi Valley through this Sunday morning before gradually losing strength.
But the tornado season in the U.S. is expected to continue shortly thereafter.
On the other hand, thunderstorms will develop over parts of the Midwest this Sunday afternoon and grow farther south and east during the afternoon and evening. Ultimately, powerful storms could extend from the Great Lakes into the South this Sunday night.
Houston; New Orleans; Miami; Mobile, Alabama, Tampa, Florida; and Charleston, South Carolina, are among the locations where warm weather will look more like July than late May during the holiday weekend.
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