Collin County Sheriff’s Department confirmed to ABC News that three
people died in Collin County -- two in Copeville, one in Blue Ridge --
as a result of Saturday night’s extreme weather system.
Earlier five people were confirmed dead in the Garland, Texas area, Garland Police said.
Cops also said that there were numerous injuries and that there were
numerous buildings destroyed, but more specifics were not immediately
available.
The hardest hit area was by I-30 and police said that it appeared that
victims were in cars that were blown off of the highway onto the service
road below.
On Saturday, there were several reported tornadoes, according to NWS
Fort Worth.
The destruction came as the death toll from severe storms throughout the
South this week rose to 17.
The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency
(MEMA) reported two more deaths Saturday, bringing the total in the
state to 10. The two additional deaths in Bexar County were originally
considered missing.
Earlier, six people in Tennessee and one person in
Arkansas also died in the storms, bringing the total to 17.
The National Weather Service Saturday afternoon issued a tornado watch
for 49 counties in Texas, including Dallas County, the state’s second
most populous after Harris County.
And Saturday evening, a "large and extremely dangerous" tornado was
reported near Glenn Heights, TX, south of Dallas, according to the
National Weather Service.
According to the Dallas Office of Emergency Management, there was some
damage in the Glenn Heights area, but no reports of damage in the city
of Dallas
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