Storm tears roofs while sweeping northern Texas

A serious storm swept northern Texas on Tuesday, eliminating energy from thousands of customers, damaging buildings and causing schooling and school evacuations, the authorities said.

More than 350,000 customers in Texas were without electricity on Tuesday afternoon, the majority of northern Texas, while the strong winds of the storm swept the region. Nearly a dozen counties in the Dallas – Fort Worth area have been affected. It was not clear how many power outages were directly caused by the storm.

The storm, part of what the forecasters called an “unusually strong” storm system which extended from Iowa to Texas, was to be strengthened when it moved east, bringing damaging winds, blizzard conditions and sudden localized flooding, according to the National Weather Service.

Warnings were in place for blizzards in large plains and severe storms across the south, with damaging gusts, hail and possible tornadoes from eastern Oklahoma to Alabama and the western regions of Florida. The system was to affect a large part of the east coast on Wednesday.

In Irving, just northwest of Dallas, most of the damage was felt in an area of ​​approximately two miles squares in the southern section of the city of around 250,000 people. Meteorologists of the meteorological service investigated to find out if it was a tornado that had cut the destructive path, Officer Anthony Alexander, spokesperson for the Irving Police Department, announced on Tuesday.