Overview
- National Weather Service teams, which surveyed damage Sunday, confirmed an EF-2 tornado in Runaway Bay and an EF-1 near Springtown after Saturday night’s storms that killed two people.
- Local officials report multiple injuries, two confirmed deaths in Wise and Parker counties, and dozens of families displaced, with at least 25 homes destroyed or heavily damaged in Wise County.
- Wise County issued a disaster declaration and stood up a unified command that includes Texas Task Force 2 and the American Red Cross, and authorities asked the public to stay clear of damaged neighborhoods.
- Blocked roads and downed power lines slowed rescues, and utilities reported tens of thousands of outages across North Texas in the early hours of Sunday.
- Survey work continues across the region, and preliminary data points to seven tornadoes in North Texas, with EF ratings based on observed damage used to estimate each storm’s peak winds.