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West Texans Help Oklahoma Victims
Storm Drops Tree Limb on Texas Mobile Home, 1 Dead 2/22/13
Associated Press
2/22/13
HEMPHILL, Texas - One woman is dead after savage winds whipped through
rural East Texas and weather officials say a team will be sent to determine if a
tornado struck the area.
Sabine County Sheriff Tom Maddox says the storm streaked across the
southwestern corner of the county on the Louisiana border about 1:30 p.m.
Thursday. Maddox says the storm dropped a tree limb onto a mobile home about 145
miles northeast of Houston, fatally injuring 74-year-old Louise Pillow Stringer.
Maddox says 25 homes were damaged and debris patterns look like those left
behind by a tornado, rather than straight-line winds.
National Weather Service meteorologist Jason Hansford in Shreveport, La.,
says the agency has no conclusive evidence of a tornado, but a survey team will
be sent to investigate the area Friday.