EF-3 Tornado - Dallas, Texas - Oct. 20, 2019 Disaster Compilations Oct 22

EF-3 Tornado - Dallas, Texas - Oct. 20, 2019
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Several tornadoes and violent severe thunderstorms hit the Dallas metro area Sunday night, including at least one destructive tornado on the north side of the city that produced significant damage and knocked out power to tens of thousands of people. However, despite the extensive damage, there were no reported fatalities as of Monday morning and no one still missing.

“Considering the path that the storm took, it went across a pretty densely populated part of our city, we should consider ourselves pretty fortunate that we didn’t lose any lives, no fatalities, and no serious injuries,” said Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson. “Property damage, we’re not concerned about that. … We’ve dealt with [that] before. Our number one priority is that people are safe,” he said.

The tornado deemed “life-threatening” by the National Weather Service in Fort Worth touched down during “Sunday Night Football” and lifted debris more than 20,000 feet in the air. Cellphone videos of the storm captured the ghostly funnel eerily illuminated by flashes of lightning. It was given a preliminary rating of EF-3 by the National Weather Service, who found evidence of winds in the 140 mph range. They’re still working to sort out the exact details of path width and length.
Hardest hit were neighborhoods on the northern reaches of Dallas County as the destructive tornado passed just north of University Park and plowed through Preston Hollow. It then probably crossed Route 75 and Highway 635. Homes were left in ruins in Preston Hollow, an affluent Dallas neighborhood north of Southern Methodist University.