Dallas-Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – A second weekend of powerful storms pushed through on Father’s Day … this time Tarrant County was most affected.
Up to 95-thousand power outages were reported at the height of the storm, and over r half of them were in Tarrant County.
In Arlington, homes along an entire city street were damage. Residents along Andrews Street say a strong wind came through without warning; one witness tells WFAA-TV that a neighbor reports seeing a funnel going down the street.
In Farmers Branch, the roof was ripped a building at the Villa Creek Apartments, displacing several residents.
Meantime, most of North Dallas was under a tornado watch as the storm passed through.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports some damage homes, but ‘not catastrophic,’ damage was reported in North Fort Worth along interstate loop 820 stretching from Lake Worth to Keller.
And, an Oncor crew is on the scene outside a home on Waterford Street in Irving, where one of their cranes almost toppled over onto a house overnight.
Toney Harvey with Irving Fire says that “Oncor was working on a transformer located behind the houses on Waterford when the pavement gave way underneath one of the outriggers, causing the crane to settle at a 45-degree angle.”
Another crane has been brought into free the disable one. No one was injured and no homes were damage.
Homes in an Irving neighborhood & gated community have been evacuated after a crane to fix a blown transformer nearly toppled over. Second crane now working to stabilize it. More on @WBAP247NEWS @570KLIF. pic.twitter.com/e98tClsW12
— Scott Sidway (@ScottyWK) June 17, 2019
(Copyright 2019 WBAP/KLIF 24/7 News. This report contains material from the WFAA-TV and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
