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Within the southern Plains area, rescue efforts had been underway after the storms, and a whole bunch of hundreds of individuals had been left with out energy. Cities in Oklahoma and Arkansas are additionally reported to have been affected.
Cook dinner County Sheriff Ray Sappington advised ABC affiliate WFAA that a minimum of two individuals have died after a twister tore by an space in Texas.
“I can positively say two, however I also can say that quantity will develop,” he mentioned. “In the mean time we’re nonetheless conducting search and rescue operations… I hope we are going to discover extra survivors.”
Sappington was talking exterior the journey middle, a relaxation cease off the freeway with a gasoline station and a number of other eating places, the place he mentioned there have been about 60 to 80 individuals when the wind hit, a few of them looking for shelter.
There have been “quite a few” accidents, he mentioned, however none had been life-threatening.
About 375,000 individuals had been with out energy in Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas as of Sunday morning, based on the web site Poweroutage.us.
Extra stormy climate was within the forecast for the Nice Plains on Sunday, with the specter of tornadoes nonetheless in place in lots of areas, however the Nationwide Climate Service in Texas mentioned the hazard had receded.
“It may work itself out,” Sappington advised WFAA. “That is Texas.”
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