A tornado ripped through the Texas Panhandle town of Perryton on Thursday, causing widespread damage as another in a series of fierce storms carved its way through the South.
Storm chaser Brian Emfinger told Fox Weather that he watched the twister move through a mobile home park, mangling trailers and uprooting trees.
Ochiltree General Hospital in Perryton said on Facebook,"Walking/wounded please go to the clinic. All others to the hospital ER." Patients had minor to major trauma, ranging from"head injuries to collapsed lungs, lacerations, broken bones," she said.David Erickson / AP"The whole city is out of power," he said.
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