Hail-Laden Windstorms Wallop Eastern Texas
From Times Wire Reports
Storms battered eastern Texas with winds of up to 100 mph and hail the size of baseballs, damaging buildings and slamming about 15 parked airplanes into one another at the Gainesville Municipal Airport.
“When you have winds from 80 to 100 mph, it can do damage similar to that of a tornado,” said Jesse Moore, a National Weather Service meteorologist.
No major injuries were reported. Hundreds of homes and businesses were damaged, and power was knocked out in several areas.
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