Rescuers are expected to search the Dallas area again on Wednesday for people who may be trapped after violent tornadoes swept through homes, sucked up tractor-trailers, and sent debris swirling through the air. According to the National Weather Service, between 6 and 13 tornadoes touched down in northern Texas on Tuesday. The mayors of Dallas and Arlington reported that there have been no deaths so far. Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck reported three people were taken to a hospital in Arlington and at least 150 homes were destroyed. “We’ve dodged a bullet.” Cluck said. “We’ve done the primary search. We feel as though we have everybody now, but they won’t give up until they have done all the other searches.”
More than 110 planes at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport were damaged due to gulf ball sized hail. Airlines reportedly canceled 400 departures, and more than three dozen incoming flights were diverted to other airports because of the storm. Sean Morris, CNN meteorologist, estimated the tornadoes were EF1 or EF2 twisters at their strongest. “This is fairly weak in terms of tornadoes, but we saw the awesome power of the twisters as they lifted the trailers several hundred feet in the air,” Morris reported. Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings says that the damage could have been much worse. “The big headline is that we dodged a big bullet. We’re saddened by the damage the system did, but we’ve got nobody that’s dead and no significant injures. It really is a miracle,” the mayor said.
