Severe Storms Hit North Texas; Lightning Sets Oil Well on Fire; Thousands Without Power
In Longview, about two hours east of Dallas, a lightning strike caused a large oil well fire, leading police to evacuate the nearby area, according to KETK NBC.
KLTV-7 reports that the oil well fire was brought under control at 8:30 a.m. Monday morning and the 20 households and 13 businesses evacuated were allowed to return. No injuries have been reported from the fire.
Lightning struck a home in Denton County around 2 a.m. Monday and caused a fire that left the home significantly damaged, according to NBC DFW. The couple living in the home made it out safely.
The Dallas Morning News reports that over 20,000 homes and businesses are without power across the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Dallas saw the bulk of the outages with 8,000 powerless.
Several roads were closed across the metroplex after high winds blew down power lines. NBC DFW reports that authorities closed down a section of a major highway after a two-car wreck blamed on the storms.
There have been no reports of injuries in the Dallas-Forth Worth metroplex, but the same outbreak of severe weather killed at least one person in southwestern Arkansas.
Severe weather is expected to continue moving throughout the Deep South, possibly generating damaging winds, lightning and hail.
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