At least 23 people were injured when tornadoes slammed central Texas on Tuesday, causing widespread destruction, a local official said.
Judge David Blackburn of Bell County, Texas, said 23 people were injured, and one of them critically. Twelve of the injured were taken to hospitals, the county’s top elected official said.
“There’s not much left,” said Blackburn during a press conference on Wednesday afternoon. “Large trees are uprooted and overturned and stripped. Buildings really reduced to rubble. … Power lines, power poles, are scattered all over the place. It’s pretty devastating.”
Photos on social media showed grapefruit-size hail associated with the storm. There were also reports of hailstones nearly six inches in length in Salado, a rural town in Bell County. According to AccuWeather, the Salado area saw hail up to five-and-a-half inches in diameter.
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