One dead after tornado touches down in Texas

Sunday, May 10, 2015, 7:21 AM -

UPDATE: Significant damage was reported near the town of Delmont, South Dakota Sunday after a tornado ripped through the area Sunday morning. Nine people were injured, according to Associated Press.

A confirmed tornado was then located over northeastern Denton County, Texas around 2:20 p.m.

National Guard performed air rescues in Krum, Texas for residents stranded by flash floods. Major roads were washed out as torrential downpours left parts of north Texas with six to seven inches of rain over the last four days.

Multiple people reported seeing a tornado touch down in the city of Cisco, Texas Saturday evening.

The destructive force of the funnel leveled a number of homes and the roofs were ripped off several others in Eastland County, and was one of three reported tornadoes in the state that day.

"There is a considerable amount of damage," Eastland County Judge Rex Fields, who also serves as the county's emergency services coordinator, told The Associated Press. "Homes have been lost."

Torrential downpours, major flooding and gale force winds accompanied the outbreak.

Two twisters were confirmed to have touched down in eastern Colorado, as well as one in Kansas.

More than 40 tornadoes have materialized across the United States so far this weekend.

A string of dangerous storms capable of producing large tornadoes will continue to threaten parts of the U.S. Plains through Mother's Day, forecasters say, after a fatal tornado outbreak on Wednesday and severe storms Thursday.

Saturday posed the most severe risk for a tornado outbreak across Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas to north and central Texas, forecasters said, prompting dozens of tornado watches and warnings. Large hail and torrential rainfall resulting in flash flooding was also possible.

Our team of storm chasers -- Mark Robinson, Jaclyn Whittal and Michel Millaire -- are in the affected area providing real-time updates on Twitter and our website.

Severe storms -- bringing heavy rain, hail, damaging winds and possible tornadoes -- are to push eastward Sunday, stretching from Nebraska/Iowa south to eastern Oklahoma and into Texas.

"A broad corridor of scattered severe storms will be possible from eastern portions of the central Plains to central and eastern Texas and extending east through the Ozark Mountains, mid-Mississippi to southern Upper Mississippi Valley Sunday," says the SPC.

Some tornadic activity is possible fore eastern portions of the central and southern Plains, adds the weather agency.

"Similar to Saturday, a brief tornado threat is expected across northeast South Carolina and eastern North Carolina associated with the inland movement of subtropical storm Ana."

The combination of dry air over the Midwest and a mass of unstable moisture from the Gulf of Mexico have created ideal conditions for this type of active and dangerous weather across the U.S. Plains.

With a report from Daksha Rangan.

Source: CNN

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