Hailstorm Causes Heavy Damage

Posted on March 17, 2016

FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) – Many people in North Texas were awakened by severe storms on Thursday morning.

A brief Tornado Warning was issued for Parker County around 5:55 a.m.

Thousands of homes and businesses in Fort Worth lost power.

The severe weather also forced a ground stop on incoming flights at DFW Airport.

Hail was the big story of the day.  The hardest hit area was between Interstates 30 and 20 in southern Tarrant County where 1-2.5″ size hail was reported.  That’s nearly the size of tennis balls.  Other areas have reported golf ball-sized hail.

11 ambulances and 12 other MedStar vehicles were damaged by hail.  “This is going to be a very expensive storm for us,” said MedStar spokesman Matt Zavadsky.  “In addition to the vehicles, we also had a fleet of about 30, brand new ambulance chassis that were damaged.”

The damaged ambulances have been taken out of service.  “The good news is that we have enough reserve in the fleet to replace them pretty quickly and there has been no impact on the field units, but we will have to get these windshields repaired,” said Zavadsky.

The hail also damaged a few of the Arlington Police Department’s patrol cars and the roof of Fort Worth PD’s West Division substation.

Several flamingos, a pelican and two ducks were killed at the Fort Worth Zoo, according to officials.

There are also reports of flooding along Southbound I-35W at Morningside.

 

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