As we come on the air this middy
temps climbing here in North Te,
about the top triple digits.
That as we get a better look at
the damage from a deadly tornado
in the Texas Panhandle and our
damage here from overnight stor.
Thanks for joining
us this midday. I'm Suzanne Bru.
Now we want to get straight to the major
damage we're seeing here in North Texas.
First, the biggest problem for many again,
was hail Denton County, in particular,
Sanger getting hit hard.
As you can see by these
photos sent in by viewers.
Lots of folks.
Out there checking some damage.
Collin County, also pounded by the storms,
even seeing a tornado watch At
one point our Megan Mitchell
checked out the damage in Lavon
and you can see just how bad that damage
is through this bank drive thro.
This is completely leveled at this point.
You can see even the top of
where the inside of the bank wa.
That roof is also torn off now.
This is just some of the damage
that we expect expected to
see from last night's storm.
One thing we can confirm is that
there was a tornado warning hern
Collin County and of course in Lavon.
This is independent financial.
Someone affiliated with this bak
was here in the early morning h.
They don't want to talk on came,
but they did tell us how upset
and frustrated they were.
There were people here assessing the damage,
but you can even see that
this was pretty widespread.
I mean there is trees that are cut in half.
There are different branches that are thrown
around all around this area, but of course.
We'll keep you updated.
Fortunately no injuries in this situation,
but of course that destruction m
the storm, nothing to be messed with.
Back to you.
Thank you. And today,
the death toll rising to three r
a tornado hit the Texas Panhand.
Dozens are injured.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott annod
he's deploying state emergency
response resources to, quote,
meet urgent life safety needs.
And this is in Perryton,
a town that is about two
hours northeast of Amarillo
near the Oklahoma border.
John Lawrence reports.
This went from an EF0 to a 3IN no time.
So yes, there was a warning out there,
but I don't believe it was the
warning that people really
thought that they needed to hear
what were once houses in Perryt,
Texas are now destroyed with splintered
wood and crumbled concrete scatd
on the ground. Tornado is just.
100 yards or so right there,
the National Weather Service
in Amarillo confirmed at least
one twister hit the town,
leaving residents to pick up
the pieces left behind and to
stay safe until help arrived. It
looked like people were just
having to self rescue themselve.
People were were climbing
out of rubble, you know,
there was the fire nearby.
It was just a really,
really horrible scene.
According to the CFO of OCO Tree
General Hospital, dozens of peoe
have been treated for injuries.
While not every part of the down
is is destroyed, it is heavily damaged.
In an e-mail sent to CNN, Hansford County,
Texas Judge Tim Glass said offis
are preparing quote for a possie
mass casualty and or recovery e.
If you hear that word warning
or if your phone goes off,
you cannot treat it like a
small issue, a small tornado,
because you don't know if it's g
to be your neighborhood or not.
I'm John Lawrence, reporting.
And right now, I'd like to bring
in meteorologist Greg Fields.
Greg, it looks like the National
Weather Service is sending out
survey crews to assess the damae
in several spots. Yeah, they
do have a couple of crews out.
So we'll know exactly what we
were dealing with that with.
Those are storms,
a lot of wind damage that we kn.
We're just assessing that right.
So we'll know more as we
go through the afternoon.
As the storms die down, though,
we are talking about that heat,
triple digits.
It looks like gonna be close to it and
certainly gonna feel like it's that and
over as we get into the weekend here.
So it gets set to sweat as we're taking
your eye out to Fort Worth right now,
82 degrees still looking at.
Mostly cloudy skies out there
and those are temperatures
starting to warm up a little bi,
actually a little bit of a brea.
We'll see winds today coming ard
out of the north and northeast.
So it's not going to feel
as hot as it's going to,
I think as we get into the week.
But 82 taking you out to Fort W,
coming back over to downtown Da,
a little bit hazy out there as l
with the emotionally cloudy skis
in the low 80s right now with te
temperatures now we are looking at some
low 80s along the Red River as ,
Gainesville and Sherman at 81.
Those upper 80s though,
getting out to Granberry, Hillsborough,
Corsicana in the upper 80s now.
So we'll start to see the attems
warming up and we're going to feel the
heat a little bit, Not so much today,
but it will still be oppressive,
especially as we get into the weekend.
So we are looking at the heat advisory
and that excessive heat warning.
That's in effect the darker
shade of pink there.
We are looking at the heat
index over the weekend,
heading out to Corsicana and Vero County,
getting over into Athens,
down toward Palestine.
Maybe 115 plus is what it's goio
feel like in those areas this weekend.
So please do take it easy out t,
do all the necessary heat precautions.
We'll be talking plenty about tt
as we go through the weekend.
Heat index in the heat advisory
area coming up into the Metropl,
head not into Collin County
areas a little farther.
E could get up to around 110
as we go through the weekend.
So that's going to be the storyr
us as we get into the holiday weekend.
Also Father's Day weekend,
it is the holiday.
Yeah, we are looking at the.
Air quality levels that could be
unhealthy as we go through the day as well,
so definitely keep that in mindr
sensitive to those ozone levels.
So here is your day planner.
We'll be up around 90 over the t
hour or so as we head to at lunchtime today,
skies becoming mostly sunny,
we'll warm up to around 95,
but again that heat index as hot as 105,
maybe 106 later today and it is
going to be warm heading out ths
evening as well with partly cloy
skies. So the storms are behind us for now.
We are holding on to some low wd
storm chances over the weekend,
so rain chances aren't zero.
We'll talk more in detail
about that for you coming up.
In just a little bit, but now,
Suzanne, back to you, All right.