The same storm system that created a tornado in Dallas Sunday evening brought severe thunderstorms to Northeast Texas late Sunday night.
Thousands of people remain without electrical service across the region, and area roadways remain littered with large tree branches and other debris.
Texas A&M University-Commerce classes and offices were closed today, as the university remained without power until about 10:30 Monday morning.
”Essential personnel for residential services should report to work as normally scheduled,” the university said in a release. “Dining operations at the Rayburn Student Center will operate as normal.”
The front that blew across the Dallas-Fort Worth area around 9 p.m. created two large cells. One storms cell resulted in a tornado that tore across North Dallas and into Richardson. Major structural damage and minor injuries were reported, but no severe injuries or deaths. Cell phone videos taken in Rockwall and posted to social media Sunday night showed a large funnel cloud in Dallas County.
The cell then moved into Northeast Texas through southeastern Collin County and Central Hunt County before continuing to the east.
Another storm cell caused major storm damage in Midlothian and followed a path southeast of the DFW metro area. This cell continued into Kaufman, Van Zandt and Rains counties. Parts of Van Zandt and Rains counties were under tornado warning around 11:30 last night, but no tornadoes were reported.
Nearly 140,000 electric customers were without power as of 4 a.m. Monday, according to Oncor's online outage map. Around 65,000 of the affected electric customers were in Dallas.
By 10:30 a.m. power had been restored to around 45,000 homes and businesses, of which 10,000 were in Dallas. At a Dallas press conference, a spokesperson for Oncor said they did not yet have a timeline on when power would be restored to all areas but were assessing the damage and would provide an update as soon as possible.
Northeast of Dallas, the city of Sachse said in a release that six houses were damaged from the storms, but no injuries were reported.
Storms also caused damage in parts of Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri.
One person died in northwest Arkansas when a tree fell on a home in Rogers, about 150 miles northwest of Little Rock, according to the Benton County Department of Public Safety.
This story will be updated throughout the day Monday as KETR gathers damage reports.
