Tornado hit Fort Worth and Dallas area, in the state of Texas, United States, Tuesday (3/4), resulting in major damage, local media reported.
Two tornadoes recorded land near Dallas and Fort Worth, Tuesday afternoon, destroyed homes and left millions of people in North Texas rushed to find shelter, the report said.
National Weather Service declared the Dallas-Fort Worth as “tornado emergency area”, according to Xinhua – AFP observed here on Wednesday morning.
CNN TV footage showed the truck trailer is removed and thrown like a toy. Very thick clouds covered the sky.
Schools across the affected areas to collect their children in the meeting room. Passengers at DFW International Airport was immediately taken to a safe area.
Ten to 12 tornadoes touched down during a massive storm that brought chaos from high winds, rain and hail to the nation’s fourth most populous metropolitan area, said National Weather Service meteorologist Jesse Moore.
Many of the 6.3 million area residents were forced to scramble for safety as the storm bore down during the early afternoon, when schools and workplaces were open.
Seven people were injured in the suburb of Arlington, police said. Most suffered only minor injuries but one person hit by a falling tree was in critical condition, said Arlington police spokeswoman Cheryl Carpenter.
In one of the hardest hit areas south of Dallas, Lancaster, tornadoes damaged 300 structures.
Of the 10 people injured in Lancaster, two of them were severely hurt, said Lancaster police spokesman Paul Beck.
Authorities were amazed that no one was killed given the intensity of the storm, the number of tornadoes and the population density of the area.
Due to the turbulence of the sky, the houses off one by one, from top to bottom. Even to fly a big truck and caused a number of trailers strewn along the highways and parking lots.
“Due to the tornado hit, more than a dozen people suffered minor injuries and serious,” writes SFGate news website.
The National Weather Agency reported there were two separate tornado with a large and extremely dangerous category. Some evolved into a whirlwind storm that crept into the metropolitan area, then destroy various buildings there. In fact, a large tractor can be crumpled like a soda can.
“Hundreds of flights at the International Airport Dallas-Fort Worth had to be canceled,” says SFGate.
The camera records the highway, a large funnel-shaped wind looks dark nan dangling from the sky to touch the ground. The wind was moving in the busy citizens of Dallas on Tuesday afternoon and a row of trees uprooted and shifted the car from the parking lot.
In the Lancaster area, south of Dallas, a local TV helicopter recording the houses hit by tornadoes. Almost all the buildings hit by the tornado mess without a roof, was destroyed, and razed to the ground. Residents scattered in the street, while firefighters inspect damaged buildings.
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