Powerful Tornado Rips Apart Homes, Leaves Several Injured in North Texas

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Powerful Tornado Rips Apart Homes, Leaves Several Injured in North Texas
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Cellphone videos shared on social media show tornadoes and funnel clouds in counties east of Dallas-Fort Worth; no immediate reports of injuries.

A Sulphur Springs man, a town just west of Dallas, said he and his wife were in their pickup when the bed suddenly raised up, and seconds later a tree was laying on their hood.

A confirmed tornado ripped through Lamar County, damaging or destroying at least 50 homes and leaving multiple injuries, the county sheriff's office says. NBC 5's Rick Mitchell explains what he learned from watching a video taken during a fast-moving tornado in the Lamar County community of Powderly. “Thirty seconds went back outside and I look over here and all I could see was debris flying everywhere. You could hear- I make fun of people always talking about the train noise, but it sounded just like it. all you could hear was a loud whistle and I saw debris flying everywhere,” said Holcomb.The Lamar County Office of Emergency Management is asking people to stay away from damaged areas.

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