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Tornado Collapses Texas Retail Store Roof
A tornado swept through a southeast Texas shopping district without warning Tuesday, collapsing a department store roof, overturning vehicles and leaving several people in stores and parking lots with minor injuries, authorities said. No serious injuries were reported, said Beaumont Police Officer Crystal Holmes, though one man went into cardiac arrest after the tornado touched down about 2 p.m. in Beaumont, about 87 miles east of Houston. Holmes said there was no word on the man's condition.
The storm system which spawned a tornado that touched down in a commercial district of Beaumont,Tx. Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009, moves east after causing damage to many businesses and sending at least ten people to area hospitals.
(Pete Churton/Beaumont Enterprise/AP Photo)
Holmes said the tornado hit a Kohl's Department Store — collapsing its roof — skipped over a Wal-Mart and continued on to Parkdale Mall, leaving a trail of destruction about a half-mile long. Nearby Christus St. Elizabeth Hospital treated fewer than 10 people for lacerations and abrasions, said hospital spokeswoman Jacquelynn Conger.
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A tornado swept through a southeast Texas shopping district without warning Tuesday, collapsing a department store roof, overturning vehicles and leaving several people in stores and parking lots with minor injuries, authorities said. No serious injuries were reported, said Beaumont Police Officer Crystal Holmes, though one man went into cardiac arrest after the tornado touched down about 2 p.m. in Beaumont, about 87 miles east of Houston. Holmes said there was no word on the man's condition.
The storm system which spawned a tornado that touched down in a commercial district of Beaumont,Tx. Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009, moves east after causing damage to many businesses and sending at least ten people to area hospitals.
(Pete Churton/Beaumont Enterprise/AP Photo)
Holmes said the tornado hit a Kohl's Department Store — collapsing its roof — skipped over a Wal-Mart and continued on to Parkdale Mall, leaving a trail of destruction about a half-mile long. Nearby Christus St. Elizabeth Hospital treated fewer than 10 people for lacerations and abrasions, said hospital spokeswoman Jacquelynn Conger.
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