Tornadoes hit Texas and Louisiana on Thursday, causing widespread power outages in the region and canceling hundreds of flights into and out of the Dallas area.
The weather conditions are part of a powerful storm system that had brought heavy snow to California earlier. It made its way to Texas and surrounding states late Thursday, bringing damaging winds over 70 mph (112 kph).
Tornado watches were issued into Thursday night in Texas’s Dallas-Fort Worth area.
“If your phones alerted and you hear sirens, that is for wind speeds as strong as a weak tornado! So treat it like one! Get inside, away from windows!” the NWS Fort Worth announced around 6 p.m. local time. “Widespread damaging winds will impact most everyone in Collin and Dallas counties.”…