Dallas Tornados

Power has been restored to about 130,000 customers after outages peaked at over 150,000, Oncor said in a news release Tuesday. About 20,000 people still lacked power in Dallas and surrounding cities, the company said.

he list of confirmed tornadoes that walloped North Texas on Sunday grew by six Tuesday, bringing the total to nine, while power was restored to thousands of businesses and homeowners dealt a glancing blow by the storms.

No one was killed or badly hurt by the storms. But the devastation was widespread, and close calls were abundant.

Oncor expected to have power restored by late Wednesday to homes and businesses that didn’t suffer significant damage. Some power structures were destroyed and would have to be rebuilt, a spokeswoman for the utility said Tuesday.

Some of the worst damage Sunday night came from an EF-3 tornado that tore a 15-mile path from northwest Dallas into Richardson with wind speeds of up to 140 mph. The National Weather Service recorded two less-powerful twisters in Rowlett and Wills Point.

On Tuesday morning, the weather service said a fourth tornado in Rockwall had gusted up to 90 mph. Video from that twister showed a light pole bending and shaking as wind threw large branches through the air.

The National Weather Service also released new details Tuesday on the paths of the tornadoes. The strongest and most destructive was the EF-3 twister that sliced through northwest Dallas and Richardson.

Working with fire departments to gain access, survey teams assessed the hardest hit areas to determine the tornado’s strength and estimate its path. They also looked at radar images as well as pictures of damage sent to the weather service. The tornado’s intensity rose and fell at times. Heading northeast, the twister crossed Central near Forest Lane, where it totaled a Home Depot store. From there, it buffeted Texas Instruments’ south campus and crossed LBJ Freeway toward neighborhoods near Richland College. Still moving to the northeast, the tornado began to weaken, with wind speeds dropping to 80-95 mph. It ended just east of Jupiter and Arapaho roads in Richardson.

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