Tornado Rips Through Texas, Video Captures Car Flipped Over By High Wind
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Reports of tornadoes emerged from Texan towns of Jacksboro, Luling, and Round Rock, as well as Kingston in Oklahoma.
Ferocious tornadoes ripped through central Texas and Oklahoma on Monday, uprooting trees, damaging homes and shutting down highways and airports. The tornadoes have been caused by a strong storm system that meteorologists said could continue for a few days. Was this truck spinning on its side, then flipped upright before it just drove away after getting caught up in a tornado? ????#txwx#Texas#Tornadopic.twitter.com/m4nHQrkmmd Quintessential spring in Texas.Tornado sirens going off means party time in the closet. pic.twitter.com/JZSyfLY30y Here is the #video when the #Elgin, #Texas#tornado hit us today. We were very fortunate to lose only a window to #debris. In addition to these buildings getting destroyed, a pickup truck on the opposite side of the road was rolled by the tornado. #txwx#damagepic.twitter.com/YddeXaTUOf Photos sent to me from my aunt's house in the Greenlawn Place neighborhood in Round Rock.#roundrock#texas#tornado#severewxpic.twitter.com/y8cvgemBU5 A significant flash flooding and severe weather event is forecast Monday into Tuesday. Rainfall totals of 2-3", locally 5"+, and rainfall rates of 2-3" per hour are likely. Severe thunderstorms are also forecast to produce strong tornadoes, large hail, and damaging winds. pic.twitter.com/3uqBqYb5Mn
Images of destroyed homes and debris littered on streets have flooded social media. PowerOutage.us, which collects data from utilities across the United States, said more than 45,000 people were left without power.
Reports of tornadoes emerged from Texan towns of Jacksboro, Luling, and Round Rock, as well as Kingston in Oklahoma.
The National Weather System (NWS) in the US has warned that the storm system is capable of producing more tornadoes.
