An estimated six to 12 tornadoes slammed through North Texas on Tuesday.
Senior Meteorologist Eric Martello of the National Weather Service office in Fort Worth says some of those dozen reports may be duplicates.
Martello says the tornado count was expected to top six, but no firm count number will be available until survey teams check out damage on Wednesday.
UPDATE 6:20 p.m.:
Dallas police reported just after 6 p.m. that public works crews had already begun cleanup efforts and fewer than 1,000 homes were without power.
ORIGINAL STORY:
Tornadoes tore through the Dallas area on Tuesday, tearing roofs off homes, tossing trucks into the air and leaving flattened tractor trailers strewn along highways and parking lots.
The National Weather Service reported at least two separate “large and extremely dangerous” tornadoes south of Dallas and Fort Worth. Several other developing twisters were reported as a band of violent storms moved north through the metropolitan area. Officials had no immediate information about injuries.
Footage from highway video cameras showed a large, dark funnel cloud moving on the ground not far from a major interstate early Tuesday afternoon. Crumpled orange tractor trailers were later visible in a Dallas County parking lot, as well as flattened trailers along the sides of highways and access roads.
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