{"id":272374,"date":"2026-04-30T03:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/272374\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T03:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:38:09","slug":"ef3-texas-tornado-shreds-homes-buildings-following-weekend-twisters-near-dallas-fort-worth-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/272374\/","title":{"rendered":"EF3 Texas tornado shreds homes, buildings following weekend twisters near Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AccuWeather\"<\/a>Wed, April 29, 2026 at 4:18 PM UTC<\/p>\n

A tornado flattened homes and warehouses in Mineral Wells<\/a>, Texas, Tuesday during rush hour, the National Weather Service (NWS) confirmed<\/a>. The storm was given a preliminary rating of EF3<\/a> on the Enhanced Fujita Scale<\/a> during the NWS survey on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s damage in Mineral Wells, 80 miles west of Dallas, comes after deadly tornadoes Saturday night in the Dallas-Fort Worth area<\/a>. An EF2 tornado was confirmed in Runaway Bay, Texas, just 30 miles northeast of Mineral Wells, while another EF1 twister was surveyed in Springtown, 15 miles northwest of Tuesday’s damage.<\/p>\n

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Several people in the tornado’s path were treated for injuries on scene or taken to a local hospital Tuesday evening, but no fatalities were reported. A curfew was put in effect for parts of Mineral Wells starting Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Storm Chaser Aaron Rigsby was in Mineral Wells and recorded the video above showing the damage, including buildings shredded by the twister.<\/p>\n

Damage from the tornado began in the Country Club Estates neighborhood and tracked southeast to the National Vietnam War Museum, including a manufacturing complex with facilities for PECOFacet and Parker Hannifin. Tractor-trailers were also flipped in the area.<\/p>\n

According to the Storm Prediction Center (SPC), Texas has had 20 preliminary tornado reports so far this year, mainly in March and April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wed, April 29, 2026 at 4:18 PM UTC A tornado flattened homes and warehouses in Mineral Wells, Texas,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[101195,116,118,117,35487,1971,101196,27],"class_list":["post-272374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-ef3","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-mineral-wells","tag-national-weather-service","tag-preliminary-tornado-reports","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272374","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=272374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}