Overview
- National Weather Service officials confirmed a tornado at 5:10 p.m. Tuesday along U.S. Highway 180 about three miles east of Mineral Wells, and survey teams gave it a preliminary EF-2 rating.
- City leaders reported a wide path of destruction from the Country Club Estates area toward the National Vietnam War Museum, with homes and industrial buildings heavily damaged and no fatalities reported.
- Five people were taken to hospitals and others were treated on scene, and officials said the most serious injury was a possible hip fracture with all expected to recover.
- Police kept an 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew in the hardest‑hit zones, opened a Red Cross shelter at Mineral Wells High School, and warned residents to avoid downed lines, twisted metal, and other hidden hazards as utilities assess damage.
- The strike comes during a multi‑day severe pattern in North Texas that killed two people over the weekend in Runaway Bay and Springtown, and forecasters expect 1 to 3 inches of additional rain by Friday that could trigger localized flooding.