At least four people were killed and nine injured after a line of severe storms produced what a meteorologist said was a rare combination of multiple tornadoes, hurricane-force winds and softball-sized hail in west Texas.
“We want to make sure no one was passing through town, that was our concern,” Bures said. “That’s what we’re really double-checking for.”
“You would look on one side where we had a general merchandise store completely flattened to the ground but across the street, there’s a house that’s still standing and the vehicles haven’t even moved from the driveway,” Delgado said by telephone. Ziebell said thunderstorms were likely to continue Thursday, but the risk of severe weather with tornadoes was unlikely.left three people dead and more than 100 injured in Perryton in the northern Texas Panhandle.
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