Drivers stranded and damage reported after possible tornado in Houston area - CNN

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Emergency responders successful the Houston country accidental they are responding to reports of harm and stranded motorists aft a imaginable tornado moved done the area.

The Harris County Sheriff’s Department is “responding to a precocious fig of stranded motorists,” Sheriff Ed Gonzalez tweeted. The section had prepared its high-water rescue vehicles up of the storm, helium said.

The constabulary section successful Pasadena astir 15 miles southeast of downtown Houston said it was “aware of a tornado touching down connected the southbound eastbound broadside of our city,”

There person been reports of “several commercialized trucks overturned” adjacent Beltway 8, the beltway astir the metropolis of Houston, the section said, and immoderate powerfulness lines were reported to beryllium down.

“Our officers and Fire Department are moving towards assisting those radical with who were instantly affected,” the section tweeted.

More than 116,000 electrical customers were without powerfulness successful Texas Tuesday afternoon, according to PowerOutage.us.

A tornado exigency was declared earlier Tuesday for the southeastern metro country of Houston wherever “a confirmed ample and destructive tornado was observed implicit northwestern Pasadena, moving northeast astatine 60 mph,” according to the National Weather Service successful Houston.

Other locations successful the way of this tornado included Deer Park, Baytown, Highlands and Channelview, according to the upwind service.