National Weather Service teams planned to survey areas Friday for likely tornado damage in the storm's path.
DALLAS — Tornadoes touched down in Texas and Louisiana as a powerful storm system that dumped heavy snow in California pushed through the Southern Plains and into the Deep South on Thursday, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights into and out of the Dallas-area.
The Dallas suburb of Richardson asked residents to stop using water after the storm knocked out power to pumping stations. North of Dallas, winds brought down trees, ripped the roof off a grocery store and overturned four 18-wheelers along U.S. Highway 75. Only minor injuries were reported, police said.More than 310,000 utility customers in Texas had no electricity as of Thursday night, according toFlightAware.com reported Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field had tallied more than 400 cancellations total, either to or from the airports.
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