(Bloomberg) -- High winds and heavy rains tore through storm-battered Texas Tuesday, grounding flights, flooding streets and leaving more than 1 million...
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Tuesday’s rough weather led to 523 delayed flights and 59 cancellations at the city’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, according to aviation tracker FlightAware LLC. Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, a hub for American Airlines Inc., fared worse, with 866 delays and 450 cancellations.“The winds were very strong, it got dark, the rain was coming down very hard,” Mary Benton, a representative for Houston Mayor John Whitmire, said by phone. “It hit Houston pretty quickly.
Unsettled spring weather has produced strong storms across the central US, from the Plains and Midwest to the South. Warm, moist air flowing north from the Gulf of Mexico is colliding with cool, drier air moving south from Canada as well as storms crossing the Rocky Mountains. April produced 384 tornado reports around the US, the second highest count on record, according to the US National Centers for Environmental Information.
A chaotic scene unfolded around Dallas early Tuesday morning as a line of intense storms blasted the city before sunrise, upending travel before the morning commute following the extended Memorial Day weekend. Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins issued a disaster declaration Tuesday morning in the wake of the severe storms. A 77-mph wind gust was clocked at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport at 5:47 a.m.
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