{"id":271383,"date":"2026-04-29T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/271383\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T14:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:00:11","slug":"texas-tornado-hits-mineral-wells-near-fort-worth-see-photos-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/271383\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas tornado hits Mineral Wells near Fort Worth. See photos, videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small Texas town is recovering after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/weather\/article\/texas-forecast-severe-weather-threat-dallas-22229945.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tornado<\/a> swept through it Tuesday night, injuring multiple people.<\/p>\n<p>A radar-indicated tornado wreaked havoc on Mineral Wells, roughly 50 miles west of Fort Worth. Officials declared a local state of disaster, along with a nightly curfew for areas with the most damage. The National Weather Service will determine the tornado&#8217;s strength after inspecting the damage.<\/p>\n<p>The NWS issued a tornado warning around 5 p.m. Tuesday, after a confirmed tornado was spotted three miles east of Mineral Wells.<\/p>\n<p>Mineral Wells Fire Department Chief Ryan Dunn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/weather-news\/tornado-causes-significant-injuries-damage-north-texas-town-mineral-wells\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told news outlets<\/a> two people had been hospitalized with noncritical injuries. Several others had minor injuries that were treated at the scene. There were no deaths and no one is missing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/article\/weather\/severe-weather\/damage-injuries-reported-in-mineral-wells-during-north-texas-storms\/287-c3522f4d-0982-4333-bbd0-e2014dfe84bc\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">officials report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at the North Texas tornado and its aftermath.<\/p>\n<p>Mineral Wells is a town of approximately 15,000 in Palo Pinto and Parker counties. It&#8217;s roughly 50 miles west of Forth Worth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small Texas town is recovering after a tornado swept through it Tuesday night, injuring multiple people. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,1971,27,12367,172],"class_list":["post-271383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-national-weather-service","tag-texas","tag-tornadoes","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}