13 injured as tornadoes swirl into Dallas
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April 5, 2012, Thursday
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TORNADOES raked the Dallas area on Tuesday, crumbling a wing of a nursing home, peeling roofs from dozens of homes and spiraling truck trailers into the air like footballs. More than a dozen injuries were reported.
Overturned cars left streets unnavigable and flattened trucks clogged highway shoulders. Preliminary estimates were that six to 12 twisters had touched down in North Texas, senior National Weather Service meteorologist Eric Martello said. But firm numbers would only come after survey teams checked damage yesterdaty, he said.
In suburban Dallas, Lancaster police officer Paul Beck said 10 people were injured, two of them severely. Three people were injured in Arlington, including two residents of a nursing home who were taken to a hospital with minor injuries after swirling winds clipped the building, city assistant fire chief Jim Self said.
"Of course the windows were flying out, and my sister is paralyzed, so I had to get someone to help me get her in a wheelchair to get her out of the room," said Joy Johnston, who was visiting her sister, 79, at the Green Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. "It was terribly loud."
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport canceled hundreds of flights and diverted others heading its way. Among the most stunning videos was an industrial section of Dallas, where rows of empty tractor-trailers crumpled like soda cans littered a parking lot.
The confirmed tornadoes touched down near Royce City and Silver Springs, said National Weather Service meteorologist Matt Bishop.
April is the peak of the tornado season that runs from March until June. Bishop said Tuesday's storms suggest that "we're on pace to be above normal."
Overturned cars left streets unnavigable and flattened trucks clogged highway shoulders. Preliminary estimates were that six to 12 twisters had touched down in North Texas, senior National Weather Service meteorologist Eric Martello said. But firm numbers would only come after survey teams checked damage yesterdaty, he said.
In suburban Dallas, Lancaster police officer Paul Beck said 10 people were injured, two of them severely. Three people were injured in Arlington, including two residents of a nursing home who were taken to a hospital with minor injuries after swirling winds clipped the building, city assistant fire chief Jim Self said.
"Of course the windows were flying out, and my sister is paralyzed, so I had to get someone to help me get her in a wheelchair to get her out of the room," said Joy Johnston, who was visiting her sister, 79, at the Green Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. "It was terribly loud."
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport canceled hundreds of flights and diverted others heading its way. Among the most stunning videos was an industrial section of Dallas, where rows of empty tractor-trailers crumpled like soda cans littered a parking lot.
The confirmed tornadoes touched down near Royce City and Silver Springs, said National Weather Service meteorologist Matt Bishop.
April is the peak of the tornado season that runs from March until June. Bishop said Tuesday's storms suggest that "we're on pace to be above normal."
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